github says options for converters are still missing? i’d love to see shared settings for converters; like what do you in ffmpeg for best videoquality on mobile, what setting to create best avif or image compressions like tinypng.
If I had a nickel for every time someone has whined that you need to self host this, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot but still noteworthy because this is literally a self-host community.
It’s nice there’s a front end for all these tools but I kinda don’t get why is everything “hosted”. This could have just been a desktop app. I guess it can be useful when you want to convert something on your phone but to me it just seems like unnecessary server maintenance burden.
I think that a good chunk of the selfhosted community is “sole IT guy at a tiny company”. This is great for that, since having to update desktop software in twenty places sucks.
It’s nice because I don’t have to install it. Now I can use it when I work, on my computer at home or when my dad calls me.
But there is also merit to using a desktop application.
Different use cases.
It’s not like your uploading and downloading gigabytes to it to use ffmpeg. For that you use something local. This is for converting smaller files conveniently. For example from a laptop and you don’t want to use a public converter that might keep the content.
If you regularly convert certain file types on a computer, dedicated programs tend to be better than these combo ones anyway.
Why would anyone setup and maintain a server to do infrequent conversions of small files?
In addition to the other post…
You already have a setup and throwing one more docker on isn’t a big deal. especially if you have watchtower already setup as well… then it even updates itself.
I use tools like this all the time… PDF for example stirling-pdf makes doing something things a LOT easier than firing up a “proper” pdf editor. This tool would likely be the same concept for other workflows.
I love Stirling PDF. I use it probably once a quarter on average. But it’s always there, ready to be useful.
