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Has anyone made a good GUI frontend for accessing the various features of FFMPEG? Sometimes you just want to remux a video without doing any transcoding, or jo
by Dwedit 1y ago
Has anyone made a good GUI frontend for accessing the various features of FFMPEG? Sometimes you just want to remux a video without doing any transcoding, or join several video and audio streams together (same codecs).
- pseudosavant 1y agoI haven't used a GUI I like, but LLMs like ChatGPT have been so good for solving this for me. I tell it exactly what I need it to do and it produces the ffmpeg command to do it.
- joenot443 1y agoHandbrake fits the bill, I think! It's a great tool. Little long in the tooth these days, but gets the job done.
- selectodude 1y agoHandbrake receives pretty regular updates.
- kevinsync 1y agoSeconded, HandBrake[0] is great for routine tasks / workflows. The UI could be simplified just a tad for super duper simple stuff (ex. ripping a multi-episode tv show disc but don't care about disc extras? you kind of have to hunt and poke based on stream length to decide which parts are the actual episodes. The app itself could probably reliably guess and present you with a 1-click 'queue these up' flow for instance) but otherwise really a wonderful tool! Past that, I'm on the command line haha [0] https://handbrake.fr https://handbrake.fr
- balder1991 1y agoHandbrake can’t even reencode a video keeping the audio intact.
- ricardojoaoreis 1y agoYou can use mkvtoolnix for that and it has a GUI
- patapong 1y agoI have found the best front-end to be ChatGPT. It is very good at figuring out the commands needed to accomplish something in FFmpeg, from my natural description of what I want to do.
- AlienRobot 1y agoIt would need to be a non-linear editor node-based editor. Pretty much all open source video editors are just FFMPEG frontends, e.g. Kdenlive.
- jazzyjackson 1y agocheck out https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut
- mrguyorama 1y agoShotcut is an open source Video production toolkit that is basically just a really nice interface for generating ffmpeg commands. https://www.shotcut.org/ https://www.shotcut.org/
- toxicosmos 1y agoShotcut uses the MLT Multimedia Framework. It is not just a "really nice interface for generating ffmpeg commands" https://www.mltframework.org/ https://www.mltframework.org/
- mkl 1y agoThat framework seems to based on ffmpeg: https://www.mltframework.org/faq/ https://www.mltframework.org/faq/
- TiredOfLife 1y agoChatGPT and other llms
- onehair 1y agoThere is handbrake, vidcoder and all sorts of frontend.
- filmgirlcw 1y agoFor Mac users, ffWorks [1] is an amazing frontend for FFmpeg that surfaces most of the features but with a decent GUI. It’s batchable and you can setup presets too. It’s one of my favorite apps and the developer is very responsive. Handbrake and Losslssscut are great too. But in addition to donating to FFmpeg, I pay for ffWorks because it really does offer a lot of value to me. I don’t think there is anything close to its polish on other platforms, unfortunately. [1]: https://www.ffworks.net/index.html https://www.ffworks.net/index.html
- janandonly 1y agoIs it worth €22? If it was priced 1-5€ would just buy it I guess. But this.
- neRok 1y agoJoining videos together sounds easy, but there's tons of ways it can go wrong! You've got time bases to consider, start offsets, frame/overscan crops, fps differences (constant vs variable), etc. And even though your videos might both be h264, one might be encoded with B frames and open GOP, and the other not, and that might cause playback issues in certain circumstances. Similarly, both could be AAC audio, but one is 48kHz sample rate, the other 44.1kHz. Someone else mentioned Lossless-Cut program, which is pretty good. It has a merge feature that has a compatibility checker ability that can detect a few issues. But I find transcoding the separate videos to MPEG-TS before joining them can get around many problems. If you fire up a RAM-Disk, it's a fast task. ffmpeg -i video1.mp4 -c copy -start_at_zero -fflags +genpts R:\video1.ts; ffmpeg -i video2.mp4 -c copy -start_at_zero -fflags +genpts R:\video2.ts; ffmpeg -i "concat:R:\video1.ts|R:\video2.ts" -c copy -movflags +faststart R:\merged.mp4
- avhon1 1y agoEvery frontend offers only a small subset of ffmpeg's total features, making them usable only for specific tasks.
- balder1991 1y agoUnfortunately. As an example, so many people recommend Handbrake, which doesn’t even have the option to simply copy the audio stream.