New tool – VidControl (free video transcoding for Windows)

[kolloid]

Hi everyone,

I'd like to share VidControl, a free video transcoding tool for Windows
that I've been working on.

What it does:
- GPU-accelerated encoding (NVENC, AMD AMF, Intel QSV)
- H.264, H.265 (HEVC), AV1
- Built-in subtitle editor with VobSub/PGS OCR via Tesseract
- Spell checking (Hunspell) and batch OCR for entire series
- Batch queue with automatic processing
- Visual crop editor with black bar auto-detection
- Watch folder monitoring
- Custom encoding presets
- Native MKV parsing
- Drag & drop import

It uses FFmpeg under the hood and is built as a native Windows app
(Windows 10/11). Free, no ads, no account required – everything
runs locally.

The tool will be actively developed.

Website: https://vidctrl.de
Download: https://vidctrl.de/#downloads

Feedback and suggestions are welcome!

[ctsdh0]

Very limited GPU support - i picked AV1 on Radeon 780M AMF, yet the file was rendered using CPU only.
Subtitle issue - when you add subtitles (ASS) and choose the burn-in option, the program allows you to choose from only a few fonts, but what is more important - it should use fonts and keep the original formatting from the source subtitle file (I have a few *.ass files formatted in subtitle editor with specific fonts, sizes, borders, etc., and I can't really use them, as VidControl is forcing Arial font). Customizing this would be perfect.
Another thing I noticed when choosing gpu encoding - i could choose the VP9 codec from the menu, but I know for sure it's not supported by the Radeon 780M( ( it can decode VP9, but not encode). It would be nice to use the AMF/VCEEnc hardware check first to enable codecs that are only supported on specific GPUs. Me being an HB/StaxRip/xMediaRecode user for a long time, I must say this looks more like early-stage software currently, but with potential. I only spend a few minutes testing it.
PS. half of the msgs are mixed english/german

[peanutsoup]

I'll leave comments on the software to people smarter than me, but it would be nice if you didn't use an AI generated logo (and possibly website too). I ran it in a sandbox and there appeared to be no malware, so that's good at least. Scan link

[kolloid]

Very limited GPU support - i picked AV1 on Radeon 780M AMF, yet the file was rendered using CPU only.
Subtitle issue - when you add subtitles (ASS) and choose the option, the program allows you to choose from only a few fonts, but what is more important - it should use fonts and keep the original formatting from the source subtitle file (I have a few *.ass files formatted in subtitle editor with specific fonts, sizes, borders, etc., and I can't really use them, as VidControl is forcing Arial font). Customizing this would be perfect.
Another thing I noticed when choosing gpu encoding - i could choose the VP9 codec from the menu, but I know for sure it's not supported by the Radeon 780M( ( it can decode VP9, but not encode). It would be nice to use the AMF/VCEEnc hardware check first to enable codecs that are only supported on specific GPUs. Me being an HB/StaxRip/xMediaRecode user for a long time, I must say this looks more like early-stage software currently, but with potential. I only spend a few minutes testing it.
PS. half of the msgs are mixed english/german

To be honest it was on my todo list, but i couldn't get any AMD hardware so i asked a friend with a 9070xt to help me out. But thanks to your post i got remembered. Please feel free to try the new update where i adressed this issue.