NVENCForgeGUI 1.0.0

A window for NVENCForge — for everyone who would rather click than type.

Drop your videos in, press Start, watch it happen. Nothing is installed and nothing is written to the registry: put NVENCForgeGUI.exe in a folder of its own and start it. If NVENCForge.exe is missing, one click fetches it, and it then sets itself up (configuration file and FFmpeg) without you doing anything else.

You need: Windows 10 or 11. An NVIDIA card (GTX 10 series or newer) for the fast path — without one, the converter still works on the processor.

What it does

• Convert by drag and drop — files or whole folders, subfolders included — with live progress per file: bar, speed, ETA, bitrate and the output size so far.
• Watch a folder on its own page and convert whatever lands in it, beside a batch you started by hand. A file is only picked up once it has stopped growing for 30 seconds, so a download in progress is left alone.
• Split and join losslessly, and prepare footage for DaVinci Resolve. When a file has several audio tracks or subtitles, you tick what you want instead of typing numbers.
• Every setting explained. The Settings page is built from NVENCForge_Config.ini itself: hover over anything and it tells you what it does, what is allowed, and what your file currently says.
• Profiles — keep a set of options under a name and pick it again with one click, on the Convert page and for the watched folder.
• The savings line along the bottom edge: space saved and time spent converting, both counted from the very first run.
• Progress on the taskbar button, so the window can be out of the way while it works. It flashes when a batch is done. No sound.
• Day or night, and it remembers its size, its place and which one you chose.
• Up to three converters at once, one at a time by default. Measured here with four 90-second clips: two took 52 seconds instead of 72, a third brought nothing more.

Since 0.9.4

• The licence is stated at last: PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 — free to use, study, change and pass on for any noncommercial purpose. The 0.9.x downloads carried no licence at all, which legally meant nobody was allowed to use them.
• Every job has its own page, its own list, its own progress and its own log.
• The watched folder runs beside a batch instead of writing over it.
• New: day/night switch, About page, profiles, the savings line, progress on the taskbar.
• The three files the window keeps for itself now live in the tools folder, so next to the program file there is only the program file and that one folder. Files from an older copy move along by themselves on first start.
• One video at a time is the new default.
• Every push is checked by GitHub Actions.

How it works

The converter is not touched. The window starts the unchanged NVENCForge.exe as a separate process, hands it the options on the command line and reads its machine-readable event channel. Quality decisions, bitrate caps and the GPU probe all stay exactly where they were.

The rule throughout: no button may lie. What is not built is greyed out rather than pretending to work, and nothing on screen claims anything the converter did not report.