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Pure Rust MP4 muxer — zero deps, no FFmpeg. Feed it encoded frames, get a standards-compliant MP4. H.264, H.265, AV1, AAC, Opus. - Michael-A-Kuykendall/muxide

Muxide is a Rust library for creating MP4 files without external dependencies, supporting H.264, H.265, and AV1 video codecs. It is designed for developers who need to mux video and audio into MP4 containers without… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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Munal OS: a graphical experimental OS with WASM sandboxing▲313
Hello HN! Showing off the first version of Munal OS, an experimental operating system I have been writing in Rust on and off for the past few years. https://github.com/Askannz/munal-os It's an unikernel design that is compiled as a single EFI binary and does not use virtual address spaces for process isolation. Instead, applications are compiled to WASM and run inside of an embedded WASM engine. Other features: * Fully graphical interface in HD resolution with mouse and keyboard support * Desktop shell with window manager and contextual radial menus * PCI and VirtIO…
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FFmpeg 3.0▲140
Encode, convert & stream audio and video
2016 · ffmpeg.org · its alternatives →
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CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS▲170
Hey HN, just wanted to share my success story with CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS. For those who may not be familiar, FFmpeg is a powerful tool for converting, streaming, and recording audio and video content. I started CompressX as a weekend project to serve my 9-5 jobs, primarily to compress demo videos for uploading to GitLab and sharing with my colleagues. It took me 2 weeks to make the first working version. I shared the demo on Twitter and the reaction was extraordinary. People loved it, they said that I was bringing the Pied Piper to life. Four months later, I hit the $9,000…
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Ultracite v6▲252
Opinionated, zero-config code linter and formatter
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I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust▲597
A year ago, my co-founder launched Desktop Docs here on HN. It's a Mac app we built with Electron that uses CLIP embeddings to search photos and videos locally with natural language. We got positive feedback from HN and our first paying customers, but the app was almost 1GB and clunky to use. TLDR; rebuilding in Rust was the right move. So we rewrote the app with Rust and Tauri and here are the results: - App size is 83% smaller: 1GB → 172MB - DMG Installer is 70% smaller: 232MB → 69.5MB - Indexing files is faster: A 38-minute video now indexes in ~3 minutes instead of 10-14 minutes -…
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Mux Live Streaming API▲210
A simple API to powerful live video streaming
2018 · mux.com · its alternatives →
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Golang FFmpeg wrapper for simple Video I/O and Webcam Streaming▲129
FFmpeg wrapper providing simple, cross-platform Video I/O, GIF Creation, and Webcam Streaming in Go - AlexEidt/Vidio
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FFCreator-A fast short video processing library▲81
A fast video processing library based on node.js (一个基于node.js的高速视频制作库) - tnfe/FFCreator
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Mux Video, a simple API to powerful video streaming▲124
Mux helps teams ship high-performance and cost-effective video in minutes, not months. Build better video into anything from websites to platforms to AI workflows.
2018 · mux.com · its alternatives →
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Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls▲141
I'm excited to introduce Zerobox, a cross-platform, single binary process sandboxing CLI written in Rust. It uses the sandboxing crates from the OpenAI Codex repo and adds additional functionalities like secret injection, SDK, etc. Watch the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZiPm9BOPCg Zerobox follows the same sandboxing policy as Deno which is deny by default. The only operation that the command can run is reading files, all writes and network I/O are blocked by default. No VMs, no Docker, no remote servers. Want to block reads to /etc? zerobox…
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SwimOS Rust – A framework for real-time streaming data applications▲71
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Godot-based Rust multi-PTY emulator desktop application - godot-pty/gpty
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a Rust ray tracer that runs on any GPU – even in the browser▲95
I’ve been experimenting with Rust lately and wanted a project that would help me explore some of its lower-level and performance-oriented features. Inspired by Sebastian Lague’s videos, I decided to implement my own ray tracer from scratch. The initial goal was just to render a simple 3D scene in the browser at a reasonable frame rate. It evolved into a small renderer that can: • Run locally or on the web using wgpu and WebAssembly • Perform mesh rendering with a Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) for acceleration • Simulate both direct and indirect illumination for photorealistic results • Be…
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Videoer▲80
Batch convert & audio extract
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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FFmpeg WebCLI – Full FFmpeg in Browser, Offline PWA, No Uploads(WASM)▲86
Built a browser-based FFmpeg editor that runs entirely client-side via WebAssembly. Your files never leave your device -- all processing happens in a Web Worker. Works offline as an installable PWA after first load.
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Tiny 1k Rust binary on Windows▲99
:crab: 464b rust binary on windows. Contribute to mcountryman/min-sized-rust-windows development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Video Commander▲87
I've been building open-source tools in the video/multimedia space for 10+ years. Finally shipped the commercial product I always wanted to exist — Video Commander, a desktop app that consolidates FFmpeg, ffprobe, MediaInfo, VMAF and more into a single workspace where you can inspect, encode and analyze video. Built with Tauri + Rust backend, React frontend. FFmpeg and VMAF. Not a cool AI/LLM project, just a tool I've been heads-down building over the last six months. Happy to answer any questions!
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Atmel AVR 8-bit Emulator in Rust and React▲41
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FeOx – Fast embedded KV store in Rust▲37
FeOx (Iron-Oxide) is an ultra-fast, embedded and persisted KV store in pure Rust. - mehrantsi/feoxdb
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ZXC – Asymmetric, +40% decode vs. LZ4 on ARM (C, BSD-3, Fuzzed)▲28
Hello HN, author here. I built ZXC, a lossless compression library designed specifically for "Write Once, Read Many" scenarios (Game assets, Firmware, App bundles). The Concept: Standard real-time codecs (LZ4, Snappy) are designed for symmetry. ZXC explores an asymmetric approach: it spends significantly more CPU cycles at compression time to generate a bitstream specifically structured for modern, wide-issue execution pipelines (maximizing Instruction Level Parallelism). Performance (Verified via lzbench integration): ZXC was merged into the official lzbench repository monday. ARM64 (Apple…
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OxiMedia – Pure Rust Reconstruction of FFmpeg and OpenCV▲11
Author here. OxiMedia is a clean-room reconstruction of FFmpeg and OpenCV in pure Rust. v0.1.0, 92 crates, ~1.36M lines. Key decisions: `#![forbid(unsafe_code)]` workspace-wide, patent-free codecs only (AV1/VP9/Opus/FLAC -- no H.264/H.265/AAC ever), async on Tokio, zero C/Fortran deps in default features, native WASM target. This is v0.1.0 -- APIs are stabilized but not yet battle-tested at scale. Performance benchmarks vs FFmpeg/rav1e/dav1d coming soon. Feedback on API design welcome, especially the filter graph and transcoding pipeline. GitHub:…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I compressed 10k PDFs into a 1.4GB video for LLM memory▲61
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2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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