GVC 2008 - GUI for FFMPEG

[DSP8000]

GVC is a free front-end or GUI for windows written for the FFMPEG video converter. FFMPEG is a free, opensource video converter which offers a lot of options for converting audio and video. FFMPEG can decode (and convert) files of almost any format, including some rare formats such as game music files.

Input Formats
3GPP, 3GPP2, AAC, AIFF, AMR, ASF, AVI, AU, DVD VOB, DV Video, FLIC, FLV, MP2, MP3, MP4, Matroska, MJPEG, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, Musepack, NULL, NUT, OGG, PCM, Real Media, Shorten, SWF, TTA, QuickTime MOV, VCD DAT, VOC, WAV, WMV, Wavepack and many more….

Target Audio Formats/Codecs
AC3, MP2, MP3(LAME), MP4/AAC (FAAC), OGG Vorbis, AIFF, AMR, WMA, WAV, PCM

Target Video Formats/Codecs
H264, XVID, MPEG-4, MSMPEG-4, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H261, H263, H263+, Theora, DV, Asus Video, Real Video, Sorenson, HuffYUV, FFHuff, FFV1, JPEGLS, MJPEG

Target Container Formats
3GPP, 3GPP2, MP4, MOV, AVI, ASF, RM, OGG, MKV, MPG, FLV, SWF, DV

Applications
* Convert all audio file to other formats
* Convert all video file to other formats
* Extract the audio from a video file
* Extract raw video from a video file
* Extract a part of the video from a video file
* Boost the audio volume of a video/audio file
* Quickly convert VCD .dat and DVD .vob files to MPG
* Create VCD and DVD compatible files
* Convert some rare audio/video formats to more common formats
Note

It requires Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 or above to run.

Looks promising, very neat. Latest GVC 2008.5 (http://teejee2008.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/gvc-20085/)

[Atak_Snajpera]

It's probably one of the best looking FFMpeg GUIs so far. However a lot things must be still done.

1) FFMpeg crashes when x264 lib is used (I have Vista SP1)

Input File: De La Soul - Me, Myself And I.avi (46.5)
Output File: De La Soul - Me, Myself And I.mp4 (0 KB)
FFMPEG Parameters:
-i "D:\Teledyski\De La Soul - Me, Myself And I.avi" -f mp4 -vcodec libx264 -qscale 26 -r pal -acodec libfaac -ab 128k -ac 2 -y -me_method umh -mbd rd -t 243 "C:\\De La Soul - Me, Myself And I.mp4"

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2) PSP 16:9 480x272 profile has wrong resolution (320x240).
3) PSP 4:3 profile should have 360x272 resolution instead of 320x240
4) PSP supports 2 ref frames. Trellis 1 is faster and gives better quality than 2.
5) NTSC-Film is 23.976 instead of 23.987 :)
6) 2-pass encondig is missing
7) 'format and extension...' list should be segregated in alphabetic order

[DSP8000]

I've contacted the author and waiting for him to join doom9 forums.


:p Atak_Snajpera :p love the nickname

[teejee2008]

@Atak_Snajpera

1) Select any folder other than C:\ and it will work. When u try to save to the root of a partition two slashes // get appended after C: in the output path, which causes ffmpeg to crash. This is a bug. I'll fix it.

Input File: De La Soul - Me, Myself And I.avi (46.5)
Output File: De La Soul - Me, Myself And I.mp4 (0 KB)
FFMPEG Parameters:
-i "D:\Teledyski\De La Soul - Me, Myself And I.avi" -f mp4 -vcodec libx264 -qscale 26 -r pal -acodec libfaac -ab 128k -ac 2 -y -me_method umh -mbd rd -t 243 "C:\\De La Soul - Me, Myself And I.mp4"

2-5) Thanks for finding out those mistakes. I'll correct it. I don't have so much knowledge about video encoding. I collected those profiles from various places on the internet.

6) I'll put a 2-pass encoding option soon.

7) I was trying to group all video formats at the top and all audio formats at the bottom. I'll sort it alphabetically in the next version.

[DSP8000]

@teejee2008

first of all tnx for the nice gui for ffmpeg.

here's some tips on how to improve gvc.

1.try to keep the gui simple
2.give advanced users advanced options by right click on imported files
3.2-pass hq encoding
4.get/make profiles for x-file to dvd, mp4 ...(whatever ffmepeg supports)
5.options for autoscale/autocrop to dvd, mp4, mkv
6.option to create separate audio and video streams ready for dvd, mp4, mkv muxing/authoring
7.take some examples from megui and convertxtodvd(preferable more from megui)

IMHO, this is the best looking gui for ffmpeg that i've seen so far.
Good luck :)

[teejee2008]

@DSP8000

I'll be putting the 2-pass option and many more features in the next version. I'll also combine the MediaInfo GUI and the FFmpeg GUI into one with the FFmpeg part being optional. I'll post it here when its finished.
Thanks for the tips :)