A little bit of background: I am trying to create a Google Chrome that will play videos in your browser locally. Meaning it should be able to play without an Internet connection. Since I’m only using HTML/Javascript, I can only play webm, mp4, and ogg files. However, I am interested in playing other formats, such as AVI, MPG, and maybe a few others. I was thinking of creating a local server somehow where I can run ffmpeg to encode the videos to webm/mp4. So my main objective is to get ffmpeg to run. Is this possible?
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Not just using html5 and javascript. If you have the option of running a local webserver than you can run any executable you want, including ffmpeg. You’ll basically be calling a server side process (using php, java, or whatever) which happens to be running locally.