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Hosting your own services. Preferably at home and on low-power or shared hardware.

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Vert is the best self-hosted file converter out there, and it's not even close (www.xda-developers.com)
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When it comes to self-hosting services, there’s always a question of whether deploying a local container is worth the extra hassle when you can just access cloud-based platforms. However, Vert is one instance where it’s always better to ditch the online apps for a containerized solution.

For starters, you’ll have to upload your documents to third-party servers when converting PDFs, JPGs, or other documents via online platforms. While many websites claim to delete your data after a specific span of time, there’s a huge privacy issue every time you send private files to an external server.

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[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ffmpeg is the best file converter

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

and ImageMagick for everything that ffmpeg doesn't support.

[–] yaroto98@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I'm using ConvertX and I've liked it. How is this one better?

[–] RadDevon@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m running this. There are a few things I don’t like about it. The biggest issue for me is that it touts itself as a privacy-centric file converter, but then it makes requests to Google Fonts and Cloudflare. I’ve blocked loading of those scripts in my browser, but I don’t understand why you would add those things to a service that’s supposed to be focused on privacy.

The other issue I had is that the default video conversion server URL is baked into the Docker image. Whereas normally I would configure something like this by simply passing an env var through to the container, here I have to build my own image which makes updating the container more of a hassle.

Seems to be fine as a file converter though.

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

This Google/cloud flare stuff drives me nuts.

Fonts aren't that big. I'll be happy to host them. Why does Google/cloud flare need to be involved here?

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago

Check out the live instance at vert.sh

— https://github.com/VERT-sh/VERT

Interesting! It can convert images, audio, docs, video. Normally I would just use CLIs for this type of thing, but actually I could see this being handy for non-techies in the household.

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why do you need to convert files so often?

[–] wowleak@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I convert all my jpg to jpeg because i want the expert version.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I dont want a jpeg, i just want a got dang hotdog!

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 month ago

Oh hell yes I need this