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wasmpeg Brings FFmpeg’s Decode Loop to the Browser

wasmpeg.com Observed source
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A browser-focused multimedia package that demuxes and decodes files into typed arrays, with metadata probing and an experimental WebGPU path.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-30 issue.

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The package exposes two distinct workflows: decoding and scaling media into an RGBA Uint8ClampedArray, or probing container metadata without decoding. Its stated cross-runtime target covers Node, browsers, and workers, while the documentation separates codec support, filtering, and FATE benchmarking. An experimental WebGPU pipeline is listed alongside a WebAssembly CPU fallback, and the project publishes different licenses for wasmpeg and wasmpeg-full.

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