some maniacs made port of audacity that runs in your web browser wavacity.com Submitted by hollyhoppet on August 26, 2023 at 6:07 PM in just_post amazing lol 2 comments 6
anethum wrote on August 26, 2023 at 7:22 PM how does it load so smoothly doesn't it need to load an entire ffmpeg or something just for importing stuff. wouldn't that be a 120mb download in itself. what the heck Permalink 2 twovests wrote on August 26, 2023 at 7:28 PM (edited on August 26, 2023 at 7:30 PM) it downloads <10MiB of data, the largest thing being a 5.2MiB wasm of wavcity exporting as mp3 doesn't even require another download, and it doesn't do anything serverside some tracking down tells us one "adam hilss" is responsible for this all i can imagine is that wasm must be way, WAY cooler than i thought. (and i already thought wasm was great!) speculation: audacity uses a teensy part of ffmpeg, and most of it is inlined and pruned away wasm can be optimized for smaller binary sizes, which is a bigger concern for webdev? wasm can somehow link to ffmpeg if it's already on a host machine. (probably not the case, can't imagine this not breaking a sandbox) Permalink Parent 2
twovests wrote on August 26, 2023 at 7:28 PM (edited on August 26, 2023 at 7:30 PM) it downloads <10MiB of data, the largest thing being a 5.2MiB wasm of wavcity exporting as mp3 doesn't even require another download, and it doesn't do anything serverside some tracking down tells us one "adam hilss" is responsible for this all i can imagine is that wasm must be way, WAY cooler than i thought. (and i already thought wasm was great!) speculation: audacity uses a teensy part of ffmpeg, and most of it is inlined and pruned away wasm can be optimized for smaller binary sizes, which is a bigger concern for webdev? wasm can somehow link to ffmpeg if it's already on a host machine. (probably not the case, can't imagine this not breaking a sandbox) Permalink Parent 2
some maniacs made port of audacity that runs in your web browser
anethum wrote
how does it load so smoothly
doesn't it need to load an entire ffmpeg or something just for importing stuff. wouldn't that be a 120mb download in itself. what the heck