v2.2 - built-in playback & smarter metadata

Leike (Finnish for a clip) — a small, quick front-end for ffmpeg.

What's new in v2.2 — built-in playback & smarter metadata

• Built-in playback with audio and a live effect preview. Press Play
  and watch the clip with crop, rotation, colour, and fades applied in real
  time. The playback engine (libmpv) is fetched on demand via an in-app
  "Enable playback" button, so the installer stays small — playback is
  opt-in.
• Effects on the paused frame. While stopped, the still preview now shows
  your colour/denoise/sharpen adjustments plus the text caption and
  watermark, so you can set overlays up and see them as you edit.
• Reads source metadata (rotation, fps, codec, bitrate, audio streams):
  • Sideways phone videos now preview and crop in the correct orientation.
  • The file line shows fps / codec / bitrate.
  • Silent clips grey out the mute/volume/audio-only controls.

Some effects can't be shown during live playback (text, watermark,
stabilize, reverse, boomerang) — a small note flags them; they appear on the
still and always apply on export.

Downloads

Windows

• Leike-Setup.exe ← recommended — installs the app + ffmpeg, Start-Menu shortcut, uninstaller (per-user, no admin prompt).
• Leike-portable-win64.zip — no install; unzip and run, ffmpeg bundled.
• Leike.exe — the app alone; use if you already have ffmpeg on your PATH.

macOS (Apple Silicon) — Leike-macOS-arm64.zip, an unzipped .app. Needs brew install ffmpeg (and brew install mpv for playback).
Linux (x86_64) — Leike-linux-x86_64.tar.gz. Needs sudo apt install ffmpeg (and libmpv for playback).

On Windows, click Enable playback the first time you want to play a clip; it downloads libmpv (~30 MB, verified) and is ready immediately.

License

App code is MIT; bundled/downloaded ffmpeg and libmpv are GPL builds (separate processes). Details in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.