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Honey, I Shrunk The Vids - a Windows transcoding frontend for FFMPEG (codeberg.org)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) by obelisk_complex@piefed.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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UPDATE THREAD (it's prettier, and on Mac and Linux now): https://piefed.ca/c/selfhosted/p/571213/honey-i-shrunk-the-vids-mr-universe-edition-v1-0-5

histv - Honey, I Shrunk The Vids

An overengineered PowerShell frontend for FFMPEG

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I was doing a lot of manual re-encoding down from insane source bitrates with FFMPEG, and I wondered if I could put it into a nice GUI. Then I wondered if I could make it hardware-agnostic. Then I wondered if I could give it a dark theme... and on and on and on... until finally I had it working how I wanted and I wondered if I could put it into a single executable file.

So all up I spent a little while on this today and I think I finally have something worth shipping. The executable will probably trigger your antivirus because it boostraps the powershell script, and the script will always throw a warning asking if you're sure you want to run it. But it works and it's safe, read the full source and readme in the codeberg if you want to be sure.

I hope this might be helpful for anyone else transcoding videos on Windows! I'd love feedback, but please be gentle, it's my first project like this and I have no idea what I'm actually doing.

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[–] dajoho@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

Hi. Looks very nifty. What license is this under? GPL?

Also a suggestion: it might be worth putting the screenshots you have here inside your README.md so people can see what they are getting.

[–] obelisk_complex@piefed.ca 1 point 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Thanks! Absolutely, I'll add those screenshots to the original repo tomorrow. In the meantime, you may wish to check out the update thread I just posted: https://piefed.ca/c/selfhosted/p/571213/honey-i-shrunk-the-vids-mr-universe-edition-v1-0-5

And the new version can be found here: https://github.com/obelisk-complex/histv-universal

I think the update looks even better, and it's cross-platform now!

Edit: oh right, license. It's under The Unlicense. Do whatever, dawg 😊