Vencoder

Screenshot taken on Linux with KDE Plasma, Version 0.1.3-dev

A tool to interactively transcode videos using FFmpeg. Uses Neutralino.js and Solid.js (I have skill issues and can't use Qt).

This app tries to imitate KDE's Kirigami UI framework, and also makes use of Breeze icons (Located in ./solid-src/public/breeze[-dark])

Vencoder is tested with FFmpeg 8.0.1, should be compatible with older versions but is not guaranteed.

Installation

The main dependency of Vencoder is FFmpeg, and for Linux platform, please also have GTK 3 and webkit2gtk4.1 installed.

Binaries are provided in the GitHub release, with vencoder-release.zip containing all the files for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Windows

The GitHub release provides vencoder-winx64.exe which is a simple setup program created with Inno Setup.

You can install FFmpeg by running winget install ffmpeg (or scoop install ffmpeg or choco install ffmpeg-full)

Arch Linux

Vencoder is available on the Arch User Repository as vencoder-bin

Fedora Linux

Please make sure you have the packages gtk3 and webkit2gtk4.1 installed. (Although you should likely already have GTK 3 installed)

Fedora Linux default ffmpeg-free package may also not support as much codecs as you want to, Please follow the article on RPMFusion to install the full FFmpeg version.

Regarding Performance

For some reason, Neutralino.js uses an awfully lot of memory only on Linux, The platform this application is meant to run best on. Maybe Tauri was a better idea.

Running

In the project's root, To run a basic development setup, you'll need to do the following first:

pnpm install -g @neutralinojs/neu
cd solid-src
pnpm install

Then, in seperate terminals, run pnpm dev in the solid-src directory and run neu run in the project's root.

To build, In the project's root, Simply run:

cd solid-src
pnpm build
cd ..
neu build

Unimplemented Features

The Settings page doesn't work yet.

Encoder Support

Vencoder will only support predefined options for "common" codecs. What is considered common depends solely on the needs of the program's users.

Note that, not all of these encoders will show up in the program. Only the encoders supported by your FFmpeg install will show up.

• AV1
  • libaom-av1
  • librav1e (Partial support)
  • libsvtav1
  • av1_amf
  • av1_nvenc (Untested as I don't have a 40/50 series card)
  • av1_qsv
  • av1_vaapi
• DNxHD (Does not provide options to deal with its pickiness yet)
• H.264
  • libx264
  • libx264rgb (Untested, but should work)
  • h264_amf
  • h264_nvenc
  • h264_qsv
  • h264_vaapi
  • h264_vulkan
• H.265
  • libx265
  • h265_amf
  • h265_nvenc
  • h265_qsv
  • h265_vaapi
  • h265_vulkan
• VP9
  • libvpx-vp9
  • vp9_vaapi
  • vp9_qsv