FFmpeg Queue Manager

A native Windows desktop application built with Tauri, React, and Fluent UI for managing and executing batch FFmpeg encoding jobs.

Architecture

• Frontend: React 19, Fluent UI 9, Vite
• Backend: Rust (Tauri v2)
• Sidecars: Bundled statically with ffmpeg-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.exe and ffprobe-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.exe. Tracked via Git LFS.

Features

• Background Queue Processing: Manages active FFmpeg instances (configurable concurrency) completely in the background via the Windows System Tray.
• Dynamic Audio Parsing: Utilizes ffprobe to parse audio channels from input files before encoding, automatically generating and injecting amerge filters if multi-track audio is detected.
• Profile System: Allows creation of JSON-based FFmpeg profiles with configurable arguments, prefixes, suffixes, and extensions.
• Telemetry Hook: Hooks into FFmpeg stderr pipes using Regex to track frame output, calculating live FPS, Bitrate, and ETA metrics.
• Windows Integration: Hooks into the Windows Registry for Run on Startup, and generates contextual "Send To" shortcuts mapped directly to saved encoding profiles.
• In-App Updater: Checks GitHub releases and seamlessly installs new updates.

Development

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v20+)
• Rust

Setup

git clone https://github.com/EarthasaurusRex/ffmpeg-queue-manager.git
cd ffmpeg-queue-manager
npm install
npm run tauri dev

Production Build

npm run tauri build

CI/CD

The .github/workflows/release.yml pipeline automatically builds and publishes .exe installers to GitHub Releases whenever a new v* tag is pushed. The application uses these releases to deliver Over-The-Air (OTA) updates via the Tauri updater plugin.

License

MIT License