New tool - VapourBox

[StuartCameronCode]

I've just released 0.1.0 of a new open source tool GUI tool I've built called VapourBox (in honour of all the heavy lifting done by VapourSynth).


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It's a friendly wrapper around VapourSynth and its various plugins (including QTGMC de-interlacing) available to everyday folk who don't want to have to navigate the command-line or complex tools. It's available on both Mac and Windows. Just drag & drop an input video, tick the filters you want to apply, check out the split preview and go nuts.

You can grab a copy from https://github.com/StuartCameronCode/VapourBox, just go to the Releases page. The app automatically fetches a bundle of all the various third-party tools required on first launch.

[Alwyn]

Looks interesting. What AVI Output options are there, codecs-wise? Can we use any system-installed AVI codec?

[StuartCameronCode]

Encoding is managed by ffmpeg, so it's "limited" to its codecs rather than system ones. That said, AVI handles H.264 and FFV1 (lossless) at present via the UI, for MKV it handles H.264, H.265 and FFV1, and for MOV it's H.264, H.265 and ProRes and it also handles MP4. I've been FFV1 for my VHS restoration projects.

[StuartCameronCode]

That said, it's pretty trivial to expose others if there's demand. It's just a balance between flexibility and keeping the number of options in the UI sensible.

[_Al_]

That could be great, always was wandering why there is no install, easy gui (besides Hybrid or StaxRip I think) to use vapoursynth and QTGMC as a full GUI.

I ran it and got this:

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[StuartCameronCode]

That could be great, always was wandering why there is no install, easy gui (besides Hybrid or StaxRip I think) to use vapoursynth and QTGMC as a full GUI.

I ran it and got this:

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Thanks, I'm setting up a VM to try to reproduce the issue. From some googling it seems to be that the underlying HTTP library used by Flutter has SSL trust issues with GitHub if you don't have their root certificate installed. Having a play with a workaround, stay tuned.

[StuartCameronCode]

0.2.0 release is out with a change to the http library used to download dependencies. Hopefully that sorts the issue!

[_Al_]

Thanks, 0.2.0 downloads ffmpeg,ffprobe, portable vapoursynth and portable python 3.8 into directories within portable vapourbox.

Got error using NTSC DVavi though to QTGMC deinterlace that,
NTSC is 4:1:1 and QTGMC would not accept it, BestSource gets 4:1:1 it seams, obviously vspipe gets that error, so vapoursynth template needs to catch it
Most simple would be to change clip to 4:2:0 after BestSource, though it is not ideal (I used 4:2:2 for processing a while, only at the end changed it to 4:2:0), but heck AviSource used to do it automatically, converting 4:1:1 to 4:2:0, and we got used to that.
Doing that also fixes possible crop conflict using 4:1:1, where only mod4 is allowed for width.

[StuartCameronCode]

0.2.1 is out, primary with a fix to audio passthrough and the option to reencode audio if the container doesn't support the source codec.

[_Al_]

for NTSC DV avi files (which still many use to deinterlace) and using QTGMC.
1.use mkv output because audio is original, which for DV avi is wav (it would mux mp4 with wav as well)
2.Having NTSC DV, fix both scripts in template directory, for both pipeline and preview templates:
instead of:

clip = core.bs.VideoSource(source=r"{{INPUT_PATH}}")

use:

clip = core.bs.VideoSource(source=r"{{INPUT_PATH}}")
if clip.format.subsampling_w == 2 and not clip.format.subsampling_h:
    clip = clip.resize.Bicubic(format=vs.YUV420P8, matrix_in=vs.MATRIX_ST170_M, matrix=vs.MATRIX_ST170_M)

3.It does not support batch.
I wanted to recommend this app, instead of very old DVavi helper, which is oddly still being downloaded (and where folks are perhaps disappointed because not working with today's windows or avisynth versions). So, still not there yet

[StuartCameronCode]

0.3.0 release is out. It now handles 4:2:1 video sources (eg. NTSC DV footage) and up-converts to 4:2:2 so there's no loss of quality, PLUS the tool now supports queueing and batching of videos for processing.

[aramkolt]

Always great to have more Mac-Friendly tools. Hybrid generally works on Mac, but hasn't been updated since 2023, so definitely looking forward to trying this out! Thanks for putting it out there!

[StuartCameronCode]

Always great to have more Mac-Friendly tools. Hybrid generally works on Mac, but hasn't been updated since 2023, so definitely looking forward to trying this out! Thanks for putting it out there!

Thanks for the feedback . Hybrid works great but the UI makes my stomach churn, I wanted to see if I could make something a little friendlier and just get it out there for folk to play with. I've been capturing my old family VHS tapes and going through the many, many different alternative ways of processing video out there and got fed up enough to see what I could grind out myself. Having a real-time preview in itself should be a massive time-saver for people wanting to tweak parameters and iterate.

[lordsmurf]

Very interesting.