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.
Vert is the best self-hosted file converter out there, and it's not even close
https://www.xda-developers.com/vert-is-the-best-self-hosted-file-converter-out-there/
10 Comments
olafurp@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 323d
ffmpeg is the best file converter
eleijeep@piefed.social · 3 pts · 323d
and ImageMagick for everything that ffmpeg doesn't support.
yaroto98@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 323d
I'm using ConvertX and I've liked it. How is this one better?
RadDevon@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 323d
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 pts · 320d
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 pts · 323d
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 pts · 323d
Why do you need to convert files so often?
wowleak@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 323d
I convert all my jpg to jpeg because i want the expert version.
piccolo@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 323d
I dont want a jpeg, i just want a got dang hotdog!
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 323d
Oh hell yes I need this