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An overengineered oversimplified system-agnostic frontend for FFMPEG - obelisk-complex/histv-universal

Honey, I Shrunk The Vids is an overengineered oversimplified system-agnostic frontend for FFMPEG.

This is a followup to a post I made yesterday, about a silly little Windows application I’d made for batch transcoding files. I wanted something that I could just dump my files onto without having to muck about with Handbrake or Tdarr - post here, for those curious: https://piefed.ca/c/selfhosted/p/568748/honey-i-shrunk-the-vids-a-windows-transcoding-frontend-for-ffmpeg

So I spent today making my silly little Windows application a silly little platform-agnostic application. I rewrote the whole thing in Rust and JavaScript with a webview frontend, and apparently Github lets you compile binaries for quite the range of target platforms, so I have compiled binaries available for Windows, Linux, and Mac (Intel/Apple Silicon). I’m pretty pleased with how it’s coming along - if anyone decides to give it a go, please let me know if you find issues!

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Compiled binaries can be downloaded at https://github.com/obelisk-complex/histv-universal/releases.

  • obelisk_complex@piefed.caOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    That’s very similar to what I’ve been doing 😊 This project I think is on the cusp, a few of the files are over a thousand lines but it’s still kinda manageable. Comparatively, the PowerShell script I started with was far simpler. That one I actually did write most of it because I know how to get stuff done in PowerShell - just needed Claude’s help with the GUI.

    Also, I was thinking about your comment on performance when you’re looking at tens of thousands of runs - definitely not my original intent for this, I figured anyone doing that would just use CLI, but it’s totally possible with HISTV. I added an option to put files in /outputs, path relative to the input file, so you totally could just drag a top level folder info the queue, it’ll enumerate the media in all the subdirectories, and hit start. You’d get the transcoded files right next to the originals in your folder structure so they’re easy to find. Useful, I hope, when doing that many jobs.

    And thanks to your advice, it’ll do so a lot more efficiently. Like 5-6x lower resource usage, now. I really do appreciate the feedback, it’s exactly the kind of pointers I was hoping for when I posted this. I wish you’d come in to the comments outside my emotional response to someone else :P

    • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I wish you’d come in to the comments outside my emotional response to someone else :P

      I’m 50 yrs old now, but I used to react almost the same way you did, I understand where you’re coming from.

      I personally believe LLMs (and AI in general) can be great tools to help along with coding and similar tasks, we just don’t have a very good culture of their use yet.

      • obelisk_complex@piefed.caOPEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Yeah, it’s another reminder of why I always tell myself to take a day and think about my response - for some reason though I don’t often stick to it! 😅

        Also, I realised I was being needlessly stubborn mostly because nobody was telling me how to tag my post, just that I have to; after a quick think, I do understand why people want to know if they’re gonna be reading genAI code. I’ve added a preamble that this is AI-assisted, and a bit about why I think I’m doing it differently than people might first expect. I’ll clean it up to include in future posts and in my repo readmes.