apps/website/blog/2023-07-26-release-ffmpeg.wasm-0.12.0.mdx
Finally, a new start. :tada:
<!--truncate-->I started to work on ffmpeg.wasm around Oct. 2019, it was the time WebAssembly is still in very early stage and transpiling FFmpeg to ffmpeg.wasm was very challenging. (but possible as there was a pioneer project ffmpeg.js) Over these years, I have been trying to make ffmpeg.wasm to be production-grade, but failed as FFmpeg is such a powerful framework and WebAssembly is still evolving. It wasn't easy to support even one requirements (ex. RTSP) from the community and I found it really hard to continue sometimes. But with almost 11k stars, 600 forks, 4.1k used-by projects and 2.3M downloads in total, I still believe ffmpeg.wasm is a meaningful project to continue. That's why I decided to pause a little while and rethink what should be done in the next stage.
As the result, I started to work on ffmpeg.wasm 0.12.0, it is a major version and not backward compatible with 0.11.0. Massive issues are fixed in this version, including:
Lots of features are still in the backlog and it requires lots effort to even just compelete one of them, such as:
I believe there is still a long way to go for ffmpeg.wasm to really become a production-grade library, but it is defintely a gamechanger and a chance to see the potential of WebAssembly and web technologies in general. That's why I am working on it and welcome to join us.
Hope you enjoy this release :smile:
- Jerome