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"is damaged" on the MacOS DMG (M1 Macbook Pro) -so won't run.

I wanted to see if you offer an option to save the cmdline equivalent so I can use the UI to test drive, and then save a script to re-run in command shells

Nothing has come close to https://handbrake.fr/ for me.

`cannot execute binary file: Exec format error` on Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

Cool. Closed source though.

I'm curious, what is used as the UI toolkit.

ffmpeg is well suited to a graqh style interface like this:

https://ffmpeg.guide/graph/demo

It's only for Windows. (Would be good to mention that in the title?)

Landing page for an UI project should really have at least one screenshot.

can ffmpeg be implemented in WASM?

ChatGPT makes a wonderful natural language interface for ffmpeg. I like to ask for a bash script that uses ffmpeg to achieve my goal. Recent example output:

  #!/bin/bash

  # Set the input file name
  input_file="input.mp4"

  # Trim the videos
  ffmpeg -i $input_file -ss 00:01:08.5 -to 00:01:11.05 -c copy shot1.mp4
  ffmpeg -i $input_file -ss 00:01:13.3 -to 00:01:22 -c copy shot2.mp4
  ffmpeg -i $input_file -ss 00:01:24 -c copy shot3.mp4

  # Prepare the list of files to concatenate
  echo "file 'shot1.mp4'" > files.txt
  echo "file 'shot2.mp4'" >> files.txt
  echo "file 'shot3.mp4'" >> files.txt

  # Concatenate the video segments
  ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i files.txt -c copy output.mp4

"You can’t open the application “FFMPEG UI” because this application is not supported on this Mac."

I use MacBook Air 2017 running Monterey. Hmmm...

Update: Just noticed the app name after running the dmg: "FFMPEG UI 1.0.0-arm64"

Why did they pick such an obnoxious color? Too bright to contrast well with the white font. Speaking of the font, why so squished, heavy and poorly readable? Why so much empty space everywhere? Why is the back button sometimes in the corner, and sometimes floating close to the control panel?

Operating system user interface guidelines exist for a reason. They make sure that software is accessible for users and consistent on the platform. Sure it's fine to get creative if you're making a game or something, but this thing is a tool.

And it's a proprietary app, so I can't change this stuff.

https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut is another great ffmpeg-based tool. For me it is a starting point for blocking videos out of fragments. It works immediately and has nice UI (not just "enter time into integer fields").