Suggestions to improve

[Joopi Jansen]

Hi there,

I am very impressed by the clean and user-friendly GUI of "Clever FFmpeg GUI v3.5.7"
I am a newbee on video editing but I understand most of it without reading a manual.
Very good.

I have 3 minor suggestions for further improvement.
1) If the ffmpeg executeables are any where inside base map of this program, don't aks for the path.
2) Add an option to show the ffmpeg commandline, to show the user what is going to happen.
3) Add an option (at lossless changes) to repair the mp4 of mkv header without any other changes

[Secoast]

Maybe naming the program you're referring to would help...

[Joopi Jansen]

Thanks for the hint

[ProWo]

I am very impressed by the clean and user-friendly GUI of "Clever FFmpeg GUI v3.5.7"
I am a newbee on video editing but I understand most of it without reading a manual.
Very good.

Hi, I'm the developer of this software.
Thank you for your kind words.

I have 3 minor suggestions for further improvement.
1) If the ffmpeg executeables are any where inside base map of this program, don't aks for the path.

I've noticed that most users who do video editing already have FFmpeg installed.
That's also why I don't include it in my releases.
The effort required to look for it when you first start it up is reasonable, and you only have to do it once. So I won't be changing anything here.

2) Add an option to show the ffmpeg commandline, to show the user what is going to happen.

This is already implemented; close the app, open the portable.config file with a text editor, search the row

<cmd_l>0</cmd_l>

and change 0 to 1.
Then save the file and restart the app. The command line will be displayed before execution.

3) Add an option (at lossless changes) to repair the mp4 of mkv header without any other changes

I don't know of any FFmpeg function (other than the ones already implemented) that can do that.
If you have more information, let me know.

BTW:
Please post in the program thread from now on.
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/396490-clever-FFmpeg-GUI-small-FFmpeg-UI-fully-por...o-installation

[Joopi Jansen]

the FFmpeg commandline to rewrite the header is ffmpeg -i <inputfile> -c copy <outputfile>

BTW
I did not suggest to include FFMPEG executables in he installation.
I would like to suggest that the program looks for it in the base map of the application before asking the user to point it out.
It is not that pointing out to the executables is a great effort, it is only more user friendly not to ask if the are allready put there by the user.

[ProWo]

the FFmpeg commandline to rewrite the header is ffmpeg -i <inputfile> -c copy <outputfile>

This is a simple remux.
Already implemented (Multiplex, Simple remux).

[Joopi Jansen]

2) Add an option to show the ffmpeg commandline, to show the user what is going to happen.
This is already implemented; close the app, open the portable.config file with a text editor, search the row

<cmd_l>0</cmd_l>

and change 0 to 1.
Then save the file and restart the app. The command line will be displayed before execution.

Thanks this is great.
It works with most of the commands however it does not work in combination with Simple remux

[ProWo]

Thanks this is great.
It works with most of the commands however it does not work in combination with Simple remux

Will add this too.