Development Roadmap

[oong819]

Problem in brarcher's original app:

UI

• Din't show the full capacity of FFmpeg
• Auto add argument without user consent (setting video codec to H.264 will auto set -preset:v to fast)
• Dint't scale up well (adding more options will make the UI very clunky)
• Encoding error message too generic (din't tell anything at all)

FFmpeg

• Din't compiled with libx265
• Only have binary for x86 and armv7

Roadmap

Resolve all those problems before october 2024

Problem

All i have are an old low end Android device
I'm struggling finding how to compile FFmpeg
I will probally have to use QEMU emulator running Alpine linux but FFmpeg deps look big...

[pressRtowin]

I'd kill for system file picker support (that text based list with no thumbnails is painful to navigate when you have lots of videos).

Also, the original app is missing support for some formats like AV1.

[oong819]

I'll see if i can use github codespace to compile FFmpeg

[Nalajalan]

Hi, that's a very good news, you are taking over development of this app, so thank you !

As a matter of fact that's not the only free & open source GUI video transcoding app on Android. There is ffshare too ( https://github.com/caydey/ffshare ). It is buggy (I need to close the app between each compression attempt and it always fails if you don't keep the app at the foreground with screen on) but superior at video-transcoder at some point (CRF possible). I really don't see the interest to have two different app but I thought knowing this app could help you to make yours better (and vice versa)

Some other idea would be to let audio source as is (direct stream copy) and the possibility to select several videos at once.

Thank you again !

[oong819]

I would want to fork every app on F-Droid that provide feature that rare on F-Droid but contain the phrase "before sharing them" and add saving feature XD

[Nalajalan]

Mmm you can already share it to a fileexplorer and then save it where you want to....

[oong819]

Mmm you can already share it to a fileexplorer and then save it where you want to....

There's app on F-Droid to save the shared file but share-focused app usually have a bit hardcoded GUI to me