WANTED: a GUI drag-drop demuxer

[Honeyko]

It goes like this:

1. Drag a pile of files (or folders) into the open window of the app.
2. Wait while it finds and displays a list of AVIs, MP4s, MKVs, etc.
3. Select the ones you want to process.
4. Hit the big, fat button.


-- Anything like that already exist?

[yetanotherid]

Closest I know of is MKVCleaver. You don't even have to select the ones you want to process.... just the types of tracks you want to extract.
It only works with MKV files though.

[Gavino]

And for FLV files, there is FLVExtract which works by drag and drop.

[Honeyko]

I figured out a trick that works just as well as the real thing:

Tool: MediaCoder (latest)

* Drag-n-drop in your mis-matched pile 'o crap.
* UNcheck "Enable Video" in the video tab
* in audio tab, check "Enable Audio",
* choose Encoder FLAC + check Auto Select
* choose Source FLAC + check Copy Audio
* choose Format Mplayer + check Auto Select
* ...on the right, for FLAC, choose Lowest Compression.

Hit the big, fat button. ....they'll process to lowest compression lossless FLAC in barely more time than it would take to just demux. As an added bonus, any existing "errors" will be corrected during conversion to FLAC (meaning that whatever utility you intended to use during the next audio-processing batch step isn't going to choke).

[bcn_246]

MKVExtractGUI is what I use (my installer, with the last version of mvktools that works intergrated: http://www.mediafire.com/?aeb49e3wsgff4e3). MKVCleaver is newer though.

Be careful 'fixing' FLAC errors. It might be better to decode with something which reports the times that have bad/missing info and use something like iZotope RX's Spectral Repair or Sony Sound Forge's Glitch Detect/Repair by Interpolate (or Channel Copy if using ≥ Stereo). Depends how fussed you really.

- Ben