Great UX for quickly turning my .md notes to HTML. Works on the browser for everything except video
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Isn’t this basically a wrapper around FFmpeg, ImageMagick, and pandoc for people who aren’t comfortable with a UNIX terminal?
Yes. I’ve had issues with buggy IMagick packaging and sometimes I can’t remember the interface for every tool for every format. Sometimes you don’t want to troubleshoot for a creative task.
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Also great for when you don’t have a Linux workspace lying around, which you don’t always do.
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I’ve been using VERT.sh for a little while (mostly for converting images) and it’s great!
No, those tools require a full OS. The point of this site is that it uses only client-side javascript (and maybe WASM?) libraries so the conversion happens locally on your machine.
The exception is video, which runs on their server (see the About page).
No, he’s right, though you’re not entirely wrong. It’s running Image Magick and Pandoc directly in your browser. Pandoc already has its own web version that I think has more features than this at pandoc for the people , but the Image Magick equivalent ( Magick Online Studio ) does the processing serverside so this is an upgrade over that if you just need conversion.
The serverside video processing is using ffmpeg, too. Maybe one day we can have true in-browser ffmpeg…
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Oh cool! I didn’t know pandoc could build to wasm now
Neither did I, but I hadn’t been paying attention to pandoc development; I just use whatever’s in the current Debian stable repository and let Debian’s developers deal with it.
Good to know about those ‘first party’ solutions too, thanks :)