Why We Switched to Streaming Frame Extraction for Mobile Video Editing

<p>I spent a weekend building a video-to-GIF converter that runs entirely in the browser. No server, no uploads, no ffmpeg binary — just raw JavaScript turning video frames into

<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

<p>I run <a href="https://utilorax.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Utilorax</a>, a set of free browser-based tools. The video tools are ffmpeg.wasm, which means every encode runs

<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>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

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<p>When a web team owns video assets, the hardest part is rarely the encoding itself — it's choosing a workflow that fits the team's constraints. Files arrive from product shoots,