Vanilagy

Mediabunny 1.42.0 is now out, adding THE most requested feature: full read/write support for HLS! 🚀 It's truly a game changer for client-side media processing. Here, I'm creating 5 renditions from a 40-second video in ~10 seconds, fully client-side, without a transcode server:

@JNYBGR @konstipaulus @tequilafunks @jvstudnitz Had a blast!!

Visited Local-First Conf in Berlin and caught up with the WebCodecs Gang!

@jaffathecake @mrousavy You're really proud of that one, aren't you :D

@mrousavy @vanilagy Yeah, some noise for npmjs.com/package/idb recently too

Mediabunny downloads have dipped slightly in the last weeks 🤔 I wonder how this happens

@npm_i_shaders Looks very cool

Introducing Shaders v3 🔥 Our biggest release yet. Built for design engineers who ship magic. Design production-ready WebGPU shader effects on an infinite canvas, powered by a new rendering engine that's up to 25× faster.

@megaconfidence I will wear Hetzner swag to the next lofi conf 😎

Rocking that Durable objects™ swag Come grab yours at our booth at localfirst conf

@wcandillon Amazing, even using the transparent VP9 feature!!

@vanilagy I added a video export to the Redraw playground at wcandillon.github.io/redraw/example… I also use Mediabunny for e2e testing

My custom WASM ProRes decoder is able to decode 8 (eight!!) simulatenous 30FPS 1080p ProRes HQ streams in the browser. Overkill for most people, but a great stresstest! There's still some choppiness, but that's caused by the canvases and not the decoder. I'll investigate.

@rfleury I agree, yet all almost everybody talks about in software is methodology for whatever reason

I do not understand defenders of status quo philosophies in software development. Even if you don’t think software quality has deteriorated at all in the past several decades (in some ways it hasn’t, but in numerous ways it objectively has), you have to lack all imagination or analytical abilities to consider modern software as the pinnacle of what could be produced. Software can be much better than it is. I’m not interested in your methodologies which have led to many decades of slop (both pre- and post-LLM). I’m not interested in producing status quo results, even if it’s faster than it used to be. I care about what I make.

Mhhh if only there was a bunny-themed web library that did media processing and didn't use FFmpeg at all 🤔🤔

I'm met @vanilagy today! He's the dude behind the awesome mediabunny

@henryhndev @wcandillon Mediabunny can deal with files of arbitrary size and duration. Its client side processing scales from shorts to feature-film length videos! Since it processes in a pipelined fashion, memory usage is always bounded!

@wcandillon Honest question—does client-side processing really scale well for long-form video, or is this more of a shorts/reels play?

Thinking about the sheer volume of video processing Media Bunny moves off servers and onto the client. Fewer uploads, fewer transcoding farms. That's got to be a real environmental win 🌳

Day 2 of Local First conf today!!

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@happylinks @its_yordi @9ranty ❤️ Also the Windows recorder is looking clean af!

@its_yordi @9ranty @vanilagy Nope! Great project which we sponsor though👍

This was recorded on Windows and rendered in the browser. Our native Windows recorder + new renderer is going to transform product demos for Windows users.

@marcello3d Don't skip learning how codecs work, it's very satisfying .D

@vanilagy So much this. One thing is to try to build larger and harder things that were previously impractical, and then there’s a new kind of learning and science to building (that I’m still trying to figure out)

One thing I really dislike about agentic coding is how learning is disincentivized now; you can achieve good results in a new area you've never done things in. Useful sure, but I also find it kinda sad. If I no longer learn or grow through my work, it feels less meaningful to me.

@hirbod Lol, but close again just like with Krakow, what's the chance

@vanilagy Funny, I am leaving Berlin right now as we speak 😂

I'll be attending Local-First Conf in Berlin this weekend!! Lemme know if y'all are there 👀

My opus keeps fat-fingering :( Hopefully he gets a better keyboard soon.

@ggsimm @thenoumenon AI as a learning tool is amazing and I use it for that literally dozens of times a day, I'm not arguing against that. But once you go from an "answering" to a "doing" machine, the incentives for learning drop

@thenoumenon @vanilagy but if you are curious about the why and not the win, you will still come out ahead. I've been learning SO much in the last 8-9 months, I think I've grown like crazy just by getting exposed to the stuff. I can get the good sources in seconds instead of researching for days