Compressing an image to an exact file size, in the browser

<p>Cropping a GIF should not make it bigger. Ours did, and not by a little: a<br /> 288-frame Foucault pendulum went from 1074 KB in to 4881 KB out, and a 70-frame<br /> gun

<h2> TL;DR </h2> <p>Modern WebAssembly codecs (MozJPEG, libavif, OxiPNG/imagequant, libwebp, gifsicle, SVGO) now run fast enough in the browser that you can ship a real

<p>Someone handed my compressor a 1080p clip. It gave back a 480×270 postage stamp.</p> <p>Nothing crashed. Every line did what I wrote it to do. I had written code that looked at

<p>Last year I was paying $200/month for an EC2 instance that did one thing: accept audio file uploads, run FFmpeg, and return the converted file. FLAC to MP3. WAV to OGG. Bitrate