C4illin/ConvertX: Self-hosted online file converter that supports 1000+ formats
GitHub - C4illin/ConvertX: 💾 Self-hosted online file converter. Supports 1000+ formats ⚙️
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.
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.
Fair enough. I guess I imagined someone hosting all the selfhosted web apps that get posted to this forum, when most people likely just host only the few they need on the go, so it isn't really that burdensome.
Edit: Forgot to add: I always though that it could be useful to just set up Apache Guacamole, so that instead of the hosted services, my family members could just use remote desktop apps but I never got around to it.
Something like this is useful as well if you have a large item to convert since you can offload that processing to your server/NAS and not have it bog down your PC/phone/etc
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.
Yeah, having played one of the many roles like this a few years back (pre-covid), I wish tools like these had more presence. Would've made my life infinitely easier.
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 not both?
I use this on desktop https://github.com/Tichau/FileConverter but then on mobile how you would convert files, especially niche technical ones? I used to rely on cloudconvert.com but now I can install this on my server
Install it once, use it on any of your devices. Run it once on a capable server so even potatoes get the advantage of it. Run it once so it only needs to support one OS and hardware architecture.
Using an app of some description over many different device types is far more of a maintenance headache and that's before you start dealing with app stores.
This is a great addition to my home-lab, no more "free online convert" tools needed.
Same, I've been looking for something like that for quite some time
Wow, it even includes plenty of 3d file types which are quite hard to actually find converters for.
This is awesome, thank you for sharing.
Nice but I believe it lacks the ability to chose the codec, bitrate, etc for videos (and bitrate for audio?)
We need a running service when a simple command will do?
How big an attack surface do you need?
And your simple command that covers all the file types supported, on any platform, is... What?
If you're gonna bitch, and say your alternative is better, you had better cough up the alternative or your just full of shit...
There is no we here. You obviously dont need it, so dont use it. Easy right?
If it's behind a VPN, there's no extra attack surface.
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.
you can run it locally