Will there be support for web?

[devanflores]

I noticed that you said you will soon support flutter desktop, but seeing that flutter web is well into beta, I was wondering if ffmpeg has any planned support for flutter web.
Thanks!

[tanersener]

Yeah, I plan to support flutter desktop.

However, supporting flutter web won't be possible. Flutter web does not support native applications as far as I know.

[MichealReed]

@tanersener you could add a platform channel for web to use FFMPEG.js, or even WASM

https://paul.kinlan.me/running-ffmpeg-with-wasm-in-a-web-worker/

[tanersener]

@MichealReed I remember I read a few technical articles about WebAssembly last year. I agree that it has a lot of potential. However, I didn't see many projects built using WebAssembly. The same can be said for asm.js too. Do you know any known projects that has WebAssembly or asm.js forks or ports?

[MichealReed]

I know that the skia backend uses web assembly and people have used it for other things with flutter. Flutter's javascript interop is really well done as well. Could always use web workers and ffmpeg.js without compiling to web assembly.

[tanersener]

Honestly, don't know which one is faster or easier to implement. Someone has to spend some time on it and analyse the effort needed.

[MichealReed]

Looks like direct WASM ffi will be coming to dart at some point in the near future. May be best to delay any implementation work on this until we gain more clarity on the topic.

dart-lang/sdk#37882

[JediBurrell]

The wasm package is out, any update on this issue?

[tanersener]

What is out exactly?

[JediBurrell]

https://pub.dev/packages/wasm, from the issue Michael linked.

https://github.com/dart-lang/wasm

[tanersener]

It's good to have an official wasm package finally. But I guess we have to wait a little longer. That package doesn't support web platform yet.

[tanersener]

Hi, we will retire flutter_ffmpeg in the upcoming days and continue with FFmpegKit. FFmpegKit includes a Flutter plugin that improves flutter_ffmpeg in many ways. And the plan is to implement web support there.

We have this issue where we talk about the web support. Would you mind sharing ideas about what you need and expect from the web implementation?