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histv - Honey, I Shrunk The Vids

An overengineered PowerShell frontend for FFMPEG

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I was doing a lot of manual re-encoding down from insane source bitrates with FFMPEG, and I wondered if I could put it into a nice GUI. Then I wondered if I could make it hardware-agnostic. Then I wondered if I could give it a dark theme… and on and on and on… until finally I had it working how I wanted and I wondered if I could put it into a single executable file.

So all up I spent a little while on this today and I think I finally have something worth shipping. The executable will probably trigger your antivirus because it boostraps the powershell script, and the script will always throw a warning asking if you’re sure you want to run it. But it works and it’s safe, read the full source and readme in the codeberg if you want to be sure.

I hope this might be helpful for anyone else transcoding videos on Windows! I’d love feedback, but please be gentle, it’s my first project like this and I have no idea what I’m actually doing.

I’m not trying to convince you of anything. Succinctly:

• You like Windows - there are caveats to using Windows
• You like Linux - there are caveats to using Linux
• You like Mac - there are caveats to using Mac

None of them are a complete solution for me, and for a lot of people actually. So, until the day when I have one OS that does everything I want it to do, I am forced to use all three of the major OS. I realize that goes against the grain of the anti-Windows coalition, but that is reality.

You think Windows is a dead end? The OS that is the overwhelming market leader in the category?

In addition to Calibre-Web there is also Calibre Web Automated.

Most of my ebooks are large as they are comics. You also have EPUB3 ebooks now, which can contain images and audio in them too (think combined ebook + audiobook). So they can get pretty large.

Oooo, I didn’t know that. That’s fancy

It’s literally just a number admins can use to sus out if a user might potentially be a toll. It’s basically reddit karma but hidden from everyone but admins.

Why do you tankies always lie

Why do I keep running into people calling others “tankies” who are very explicitly anti-“tankie?”

So rare to see such a pure form of “Everything I don’t like is tankies”