Constellation · 01

Media

ffmpeg, H.264, Opus, PNG/JPEG: pure Rust pipelines

Why this band exists

Every crafted PNG, every booby-trapped MP4, every thumbnail on every phone still routes through decades-old C libraries with the same CVE class year after year. Remade Media rebuilds the codecs and pipelines that carry sound and image without a C toolchain, so that exploit category stops compiling for browsers, streams, and neighborhood nodes alike.

Why now

Media is the silent attack surface of the consumer internet. A Home Computer that opens wedding video, a doorbell that encodes H.264, a mesh peer that thumbs an album: each one used to drag FFmpeg-class C into the trust boundary. Pure-Rust pipelines keep Digital Freedom honest when the file is adversarial.

How it fits

Mind engines need decoders that will not smash the heap. Memory stores thumbnails and blobs the codecs produce. Edge cameras encode on-device with the same stack. Trust audits the crates before you flash a peer. Media is the river every other star drinks from.

Stars in Media

Each crate is open under Remade-With-Rust. Open the repo, then the field note, then compose with the rest of the sky.

  • ffmpeg · replaces FFmpeg

    Full media pipeline in safe Rust

    Repo↗Field note

  • rusty_mp3 · replaces LAME / libmpg123

    Top house performer: pure-Rust MP3 encode and decode, bit-exact vs FFmpeg

    Site↗

  • rusty_h264 · replaces x264

    H.264 encode/decode for embedded

    Repo↗Field note

  • rusty_h265 · replaces libde265 / HEVC C stacks

    HEVC remade for 4K edge capture

    Repo↗Field note

  • rusty-opus · replaces libopus

    Pure-Rust Opus for audio

    Repo↗Field note

  • rusty_flac · replaces libFLAC / FFmpeg FLAC

    Library music without a C decoder

    Repo↗Field note

  • rusty_jpeg / rusty_png · replaces libjpeg / libpng

    Image stack without C

    Repo↗Field note

  • rusty-av1-toolkit · replaces libaom / dav1d paths

    AV1 encode & decode crates

    Repo↗Field note

  • rusty_dds · replaces DirectXTex DDS

    DDS textures in Rust

    Repo↗Field note

What to build first

  1. A player or transcoder path on remade_ffmpeg_rs without GPL C on the peer
  2. Doorbell or camera encode/decode on rusty_h264 / rusty_h265
  3. Thumbnails and stills through rusty_jpeg / rusty_png before they hit SpaceDB
Flagship field noteBrowse the org ↗All Media notes on Learn→

Field notes in Media

The rest of the constellation

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