So for about a little under a year now I've been working and constantly adding small "features" to a batch file script I've decided to call EasyFFmpeg. You may have seen me spamming about it in the blips lately.
I'm not really sure how to explain it, other than that it's a script that you interact with on the commandline, like with the program called ffmpeg, however the script both explains things and guides the user through it. It's previous goal was to just make converting to webm easier, faster and hopefully slightly lower the amount of badly converted webm video e621/e926 get's. I've added so many different features to it now thought, and plan on adding more, that I'd almost just call it a helper for general purposes now. I know there are many other converters out there, that does a way better job than mine, and looks way better. But at the very least I can make it special for e621 users. I never intended it to become the worlds leading "application" for video conversions suddenly, not will it ever be.
Features (as of writing this)
Converting videos to webm and MP4 (converting with either variable or constant bitrate and with audio disabled or not)
3 different variants of converters (Single video file converter, bulk converter and a variant of the bulk converter that converts multiple videos at the same time.
Video cutter (cuts the video from selected startpoint to endpoint and saves to a new video)
Yes, that's that's it so far, but I also truly believe that if I get enough feedback, and see that it's worth my freetime, I'll add more, more often and also fix the likely huge amounts of both spelling mistakes and sentences that makes no sense in it. It's currently messy, most likely confusing and probably throws people off more than it helps them. But with enough feedback I would be able to fix those things, or at the very least make them better.
System support
This is a batch file, so obviously it doesn't work outside of Windows. However, I'm not sure which versions of Windows it works on either, as I've ever only used it on my own machine, which runs Windows 10. Most commands seems to stay the same though through the versions of Windows, so it should work on older versions too.
I know that the updater/downloader script uses powershell commands which was added later into Windows, so that may not work on older versions.
I have no idea what any of this is
That's perfect! This is especially the kind of user I'd like feedback from, as my exact aim with this script, is to make it possible for even people who have no idea what they're doing.
Links
EasyFFmpeg 3.0 revision zipped: https://www.nicklo6649.com/Public%20files/index.php?dir=Batchfiles/&file=EasyFFmpeg%203.0.zip
Simply extract it to the directory you wish and launch the Easy FFmpeg 3.0.bat file. Windows will most likely warn you about the file, and while I'm not sure how I could prove that it is not malicious, simply press the "More info" button and then "Run anyways".
Updater script for quick updating (or installing): https://www.nicklo6649.com/Public%20files/index.php?dir=Batchfiles/&file=EasyFFmpeg%203.0%20Updater.bat
A very little script that downloads the aforementioned zip file from my server and automatically extracts it into a folder named EasyFFmpeg 3.0. If you've already extracted the zip once, this will overwrite everything in the EasyFFmpeg 3.0 directory, hence the updater title.
Preview of the script: https://www.nicklo6649.com/Public%20files/index.php?dir=Batchfiles/&file=EasyFFmpeg%203.0%20preview.webm
A simple small and short video demonstrating how it looks, and how it may be operated.
You'll of course need ffmpeg to actually convert anything. You can either unzip it into the EasyFFmpeg 3.0 directory, or if you know how to, add it to the environment variables
https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/