Video transcoding GUI Tool

This is a Python script that allows transcoding video files via a GUI.

The script can be run with

python3 main.py "%F" <option>

Where %F is a list of absolute file paths separated by a space. <option> can one of these:

• quick: Transcodes the audio of the file from AAC to PCM. This is useful for Davinci Resolve on Linux. This also creates a backup of your files.
• custom: Opens a GUI to change audio codec, video fps and resolution. You also have the option to create backups automatically.
• compress: Similar to custom, but you can select a target file size. The new file will have the size appended in the name. For example compressing input.mp4 to 10MB becomes input_10MB.mp4. The old file is not deleted.

KDE integration

1. Copy ffmpeg_helper.desktop to ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/.
2. There are 3 Exec= lines which contain a path to a python executable and the main.py file. These need to be adjusted to your paths.

Requirements

See requirements.txt. Of course this also requires ffmpeg and ffprobe installed.