Best GUI for ffmpeg encoding

[usta]

What is the best/most common GUI for ffmpeg encoding?
I've tried WinFF - good presets, batch convert, multi threaded.
What are your experiences?

[ricardouk]

Avanti is my choice for ffmpeg...the only thing missing...automatically mux h264+aac with mp4box so it could be streamed online "out of the box"

lots of functions and profiles

[Baldrick]

ffmpeggui .

[usta]

Baldrick, ffmpeggui seems very old...
Besides, isn't it only for audio?

[Baldrick]

You missed my . It's my little gui that I made SEVERAL years ago.

Nowadays I use WinFF or just the command line.

[usta]

Aha, I see.

[mh2360]

I don't use a GUI, I just like having absolute contol over what ffmpeg does, especially when it comes to x264 settings.

[usta]

If the GUI allows (like WinFF), you can type all the commands as well.
Or you type all that in a .bat file?

[ricardouk]

[VirtualDoobMon]

AutoMKV gets my vote for best GUI.

auto dgindex, auto crop/scale is a few convenient features.
If you know ffmpeg CLI you can tweak your own settings to create profiles.



Cheers.

[usta]

Thanks ricardouk!
Can Avanti do batch conversion?

Edit: Yes it can!

[usta]

OK, I did some conversions using Avanti and AutoMKV.
I've decided to keep them both, next to WinFF.

Each of them (WinFF, Avanti, AutoMKV) has some unique features and I couldn't force myself to depart from any of them...
It took me a while to go over all those features of AutoMKV: what a contrast to the minimalistic interface of WinFF.
By the way, neither Avanti, nor AutoMKV require an installation on the PC.

Offtopic: Where do they come up with such stupid names as AutoMKV (which clearly is not limited to MKV) and Xvid4PSP (which clearly is not limited to Xvid or PSP)???

[VirtualDoobMon]

To me the name AutoMKV is quite clear of its capabitities.
The MKV container itself can handle practically all audio/video codecs.

Anyway, if you like automkv, you'll also like HDConvertToX they're both from the same author - HDConvertToX should give you a hint of what the app can do.

Cheers.

[usta]

Thanks for the suggestion: I can already see the similarities of AutoMKV and HDConvertToX. So much to try, so much to learn...

[ricardouk]

if you want a to use mencoder like hdconverttox (i cant do anything with it) it tries to create a dummy mkv file with whatever file i try to convert.... if you wanna try mencoder use Automen from the same author.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=127298

Avanti for ffmpeg and automen for Mencoder are my suggestions... simple, portableb and a no brainer to use.

[usta]

I've tried a conversion with Automen.
The positive side is portability and clear interface!
The negative side was less control over the codec settings directly from the GUI (I wanted to disable B-frames for xvid encoding, but I couldn't see how). In addition, even though I've selected MP4 as a container the output was in avi container???
Anyway, for ffmpeg, I'm sticking to both WinFF and Avanti.

[ricardouk]

I've tried a conversion with Automen.
The positive side is portability and clear interface!
The negative side was less control over the codec settings directly from the GUI (I wanted to disable B-frames for xvid encoding, but I couldn't see how). In addition, even though I've selected MP4 as a container the output was in avi container???
Anyway, for ffmpeg, I'm sticking to both WinFF and Avanti.

the link i gave you was for the version 6 (beta) try the following links for the stable version:

Version 5
5.4 update

to modify the Bframes, open the profiles text file inside automen and modify/add those parameters, you can create new ones.....

For example:

\XviD 1 pass Fast\ -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate:max_bframes=0:vhq=0:me_quality=5:nochroma_me:nochroma_opt:nohq_ac:notrellis:nolumi_mask:autoaspect:bvhq=0

and change/add to:

\XviD 1 pass NoBFrames\ rest of the settings

I use automen for flv output as i find it produces better quality than Avanti, apart from that those are 2 great programs with Avanti taking the lead on advanced functions

[usta]

ricardouk, Thanks for all the valuable information. I've learned a lot in this thread!