Record and share the screen from the browser — getDisplayMedia, and why Electron

<p>I run <a href="https://videocompress.dev/" rel="noopener noreferrer">a video compressor that works entirely in the browser</a>.<br /> No upload, no server, nothing leaves the

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<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

<p>Server-side video rendering is expensive. FFmpeg on a Railway worker, Vercel Sandbox spin-up times, memory limits — it all adds up fast. But modern browsers now ship <a

<p>Chrome wasn't "crashing."</p> <p>It was just...slowly suffocating my system.</p> <p>Over time, RAM usage would creep up. Background tabs accumulated state. Other applications

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