clever FFmpeg-GUI, small FFmpeg UI, fully portable, no installation.

[ProWo]

^^ thx so much friend, i will test a lot that new feature in the next days... I will report about
Keep the good work on the gui !

Leave a positive review here:
https://www.videohelp.com/softwareaddcomment?id=1799

[ingsoc]

^^ tested new batch ability altering dar in several files. Worked like a charm
Only i have to say that progress bar did stay at 100% after the first item on the batch list while processing next items, and the filenames after the first item that was renamed with '_DAR_x.x', next items were renamed as '_new_cha'. Also a file 'BE_processed.txt' was created on finish.
These are minor visual errors, easy to fix, but the most important, the batch list was fully processed correctly where only the first action for the batch was required to be defined.

Congratulations, this is a big time saving and one of the most useful features i have ever seen editing media !!!

[ProWo]

^^ tested new batch ability altering dar in several files. Worked like a charm
Only i have to say that progress bar did stay at 100% after the first item on the batch list while processing next items, and the filenames after the first item that was renamed with '_DAR_x.x', next items were renamed as '_new_cha'. Also a file 'BE_processed.txt' was created on finish.
These are minor visual errors, easy to fix, but the most important, the batch list was fully processed correctly where only the first action for the batch was required to be defined.

Congratulations, this is a big time saving and one of the most useful features i have ever seen editing media !!!

This bugs should be fixed in the newest beta, online now.
Test it.

[ProWo]

Newest beta (v3.2.0.05), online now.

Fixed:
Batch tasks: file extensions, progress bar.

Improved:
Many code corrections.

[Ennio]

Thanks for your continuing work on the GUI, ProWo.

[Jay123210599]

Does the gui work with Chocolatey builds or versions of ffmpeg? If so, how?

[ProWo]

Does the gui work with Chocolatey builds or versions of ffmpeg? If so, how?

If this installation leads to a bin folder with ffmpeg.exe, ffplay.exe, ffprobe.exe, then yes.

If you are already using clever FFmpeg GUI, then you must first reset it after the chocolatey installation.
You can reset clever FFmpeg-GUI by closing it frist, then deleting this folder (it will be created again automatically):
C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\clever_FFmpeg_GUI (where xxx=your user name on windows).
Then restart clever FFmpeg-GUI and follow the instructions, pointing to the new chocolatey build bin folder.

[ProWo]

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January 23, 2024 release version 3.2.1.
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New:
Resume unused processed files after program closing.
b switch option for dynaudnorm (request by mannequin80).
LoudNorm filter settings (request by manneqin80).
Unused processed tasks exported to file for next time use.
All closed EIA 608/708 captions can be exported now, not only the first (request by ss vegata).
Batch task possibility to replicate commandline to many files (request by ingsoc, non documented).
Extract from and mux in picture to video
Tooltips on colorspace selection items (video encoding)
Filename check with automatic filename change for filenames with illegal characters in join grid.

Fixed:
Batch tasks file extensions bug.
Batch tasks progress bar bug.
Video cut bug.
Some small bugs.

Improved:
Cut info.
Batch elements handling.
Audio bitrate handling.
Many code corrections and little cosmetics.
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[davexnet]

Thanks for the update

[ProWo]

Just wanted to notice about how some text are badly affected by desktop themes. Sometimes all the program text is unable to be visible or readable.

I'm currently working on replacing all system colors with real RGB colors, then windows themes and designs can't change them anymore and the functionality should be preserved.
This will be implemented in the next beta.

[ProWo]

Newest beta (v3.2.1.01), online now.

Changed:
Replaced all system colors with real RGB colors, so setting dark windows themes or designs can't change them anymore and the functionality should be preserved.

[Ennio]

Hi ProWo,

Did an old bug sneak in? Don't know since what version, but with both v3.2.1 and latest beta v3.2.1.01 I'm having issues with adding chapters to mp4.

Source is mp4 without chapters. Chapter timestamps are in an external chapters.txt file which I select under the "External file" button. In multiplex window I select mp4 as target container. This window clearly states "Chapters are muxed".
After muxing the GUI returns with "Task succesfully completed". But there's nothing in the output folder.

Can you have a look? I'm on Windows 7 64bit.
Thanks in advance

[ProWo]

Hi ProWo,

Did an old bug sneak in? Don't know since what version, but with both v3.2.1 and latest beta v3.2.1.01 I'm having issues with adding chapters to mp4.

Source is mp4 without chapters. Chapter timestamps are in an external chapters.txt file which I select under the "External file" button. In multiplex window I select mp4 as target container. This window clearly states "Chapters are muxed".
After muxing the GUI returns with "Task succesfully completed". But there's nothing in the output folder.

Can you have a look? I'm on Windows 7 64bit.
Thanks in advance

Works as aspected here.
Could you post the chapters file here?

[Ennio]

Sure, here's a short one that doesn't work

[ProWo]

Sure, here's a short one that doesn't work

That can't work.
FFmpeg needs a precise syntax for a chapter file and it is like the following example:

;FFMETADATA1
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=0
END=10000
title=Chapter 1
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=10000
END=15000
title=Chapter 2
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=15000
END=24625
title=Chapter 3

The text file MUST start with the line
;FFMETADATA1

The following syntax must then be used for each chapter:
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=0
END=10000
title=Chapter 1

The times for start and end must be specified in seconds * 1000 (for timebase=1/1000).
The time for End must not be greater than the start time of the next chapter.
The end time for the last chapter is the movie duration in seconds * 1000 (for timebase=1/1000).

[Ennio]

Damn, this means a lot of manual work. I thought the GUI would accept several kinds of chapter files.

Thanks for your answer, ProWo

[ProWo]

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January 26 2024 release version 3.2.2.
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New: New RGB colors instead of system colors.

Fixed:
Bug in loudnorm 2pass parsing
Bug in automatic file naming.
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[Ennio]

The text file MUST start with the line
;FFMETADATA1

The following syntax must then be used for each chapter:
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=0
END=10000
title=Chapter 1

The times for start and end must be specified in seconds * 1000 (for timebase=1/1000).
The time for End must not be greater than the start time of the next chapter.
The end time for the last chapter is the movie duration in seconds * 1000 (for timebase=1/1000).

I have conveyed the issue to hubblec4, the author of chapterEditor, asking if implementing ffmpeg compliant chapterfiles format could be possible.
Omitting the TIMEBASE argument, with times written in nanoseconds, the file is accepted by CleverFFmpegGUI and muxed succesfully into mp4.
I can imagine different HW players behaving differently though.
If you're interested, read frome here: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/368560-chapterEditor(Chapter-Database-Disc2mkv-Mat...e4#post2721272

[ProWo]

Thx, Ennio

[Ennio]

Hi ProWo,

Sorry, can't let go. Example. When importing a mkv with chapters to be remuxed to mp4, the multiplex window clearly says "Chapters are muxed". Where the mp4 output doesn't contain chapters (for reasons bespoken earlier).
I think the multiplex-window can use mentioning something like "Chapters can't be muxed" in cases where either source-chapters or chapterfiles can't be processed. For the selected target output-container, of course.

[ProWo]

Hi ProWo,

Sorry, can't let go. Example. When importing a mkv with chapters to be remuxed to mp4, the multiplex window clearly says "Chapters are muxed". Where the mp4 output doesn't contain chapters (for reasons bespoken earlier)

If you load this mkv, it shows Chapters at the end of the videostream info?


[Attachment 76510 - Click to enlarge]

If so, you can remux the mkv to mp4 and the chaperts will be preserved.
If not, there arn't chapters in the video.
As test, your can also extract the chapters (extract streams) and see her content.

I think the multiplex-window can use mentioning something like "Chapters can't be muxed" in cases where either source-chapters or chapterfiles can't be processed. For the selected target output-container, of course.

This is already implemented.

[Ennio]

If you load this mkv, it shows Chapters at the end of the videostream info?

Yes, it certainly does. And the source mkv definately has them.
Mux windows clearly says "Chapter are muxed". This does indeed disappear when I check "Do not mux source chapters". Which I don't of course

Maybe a bug? Running GUI v3.2.1.01 with ffmpeg.exe v6.1.1 on Windows 7 64bit.

[EDIT]


Maybe I'm onto something. The source mkv definately has chapters muxed. I'm now playing around with the data in xml files for mkv. Where I'm experiencing different CleverFFmpeg behaviour on different xml content, set to be muxed with MTX. Not sure yet, but mkv-chapters being muxed or not may have something to do with (non-)constant chapternaming. Maybe in conjunction to whether a chapter is set at the very end of the mkv (something I never do).
When having more time at hand, I'll do more tests to try narrowing things down. Will report back when confident.

[ProWo]

If you load this mkv, it shows Chapters at the end of the videostream info?

Yes, it certainly does. And the source mkv definately has them.
Mux windows clearly says "Chapter are muxed". This does indeed disappear when I check "Do not mux source chapters".

Here, with me (v3.2.2 on Windows 11 64bit with ffmpeg 6.1.1):
The chapters from the mkv are muxed into the mp4 container, as aspected.

I recommend the following.
Close the program and delete this folder (it will be created again automatically):
C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\clever_FFmpeg_GUI (where xxx=your user name on windows).
Then restart the program.

[Ennio]

Sorry, you beat me to it. I edited my previous post #832, please read.

[Han Solo1]

I am new to this software so I was wondering knows what this error message ([out#0/null @ 0000018b4d40e340] video:7147kB audio:87548kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: unknown) means for a file I'm working with.

[ProWo]

I am new to this software so I was wondering knows what this error message ([out#0/null @ 0000018b4d40e340] video:7147kB audio:87548kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: unknown) means for a file I'm working with.

You have to describe it a little more precisely.
When exactly does the error occur, during which action?
Post a screenshot of it, a mediainfo report (text mode) of the video and your ffmpeg version here.

EDIT:
video:7147kB audio:87548kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB
This video is probably defective, the video stream is significantly smaller than the audio stream.

[Han Solo1]

I am new to this software so I was wondering knows what this error message ([out#0/null @ 0000018b4d40e340] video:7147kB audio:87548kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: unknown) means for a file I'm working with.

You have to describe it a little more precisely.
When exactly does the error occur, during which action?
Post a screenshot of it, a mediainfo report (text mode) of the video and your ffmpeg version here.

I was referred to ask my question in this forum by a fellow member. So for a better description of my problem I would ask for you to review the following thread:https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/413174-Mediasonic-HomeWorx.

[ProWo]

Detete this post

[ProWo]

Can you upload the non playable file everywhere and post the download link here, so i can take a look.

[davexnet]

ProWo I can't get the hdr>sdr conversion working at all, it produces a 0 byte file in the output folder.

I tried a few of the HDR demos I have sitting around in my PC, none of them work, using 3.22 and latest FFmpeg