SmoothTranscode

[Orry Verducci]

Here is a spare time project I've been working on, SmoothTranscode. It's designed to be an easy to use video or audio file converter, based upon FFmpeg which means it supports a wide range of formats. I've designed it to be simple to use yet powerful, which means I intend to have a more user friendly user interface than many video converters available while retaining complete control over the end result.

It can be downloaded from this site, with source code available from GitHub.

This is an early development release (version 0.2), which means I have not yet been able to implement all the features I wish to have, and many features may not yet work as intended or may be buggy. However I do consider the core functionality to be stable enough for a general release. Feel free to report bugs or suggest improvements you'd like to see.

.Net Framework 4 Client Profile or better is required to use the software, with a modern processor (Core 2 or better) recommended for video conversions.

[houlty]

cant test it at the minute as not on my pc, will try it out tomorrow...

also, a few typos on your site. cleaver is a butchers implement, you mean clever.

[Orry Verducci]

  On 05/09/2011 at 21:43, houlty said:

cant test it at the minute as not on my pc, will try it out tomorrow...

also, a few typos on your site. cleaver is a butchers implement, you mean clever.

Whoops, you'd never know I put the site together quickly while a better one is in the works.

[Copernic Reporter]

Very nice software, congrats. Btw, I've just found two ''esthetic'' bugs.

''SmoothTranscode 0.2 Released'' but the about box says:

Desktop shortcut says ''Treanscode'':

and a last annoying bug or maybe feature: it doesn't remember the last used location (input/output)

Win 7 HP 32-bit.

[Orry Verducci]

  On 06/09/2011 at 08:35, Copernic said:

''SmoothTranscode 0.2 Released'' but the about box says:

  On 06/09/2011 at 08:35, Copernic said:

Desktop shortcut says ''Treanscode'':

Thanks for pointing that out, they have been fixed and the installer has been updated.

  On 06/09/2011 at 08:35, Copernic said:

and a last annoying bug or maybe feature: it doesn't remember the last used location (input/output)

Does it forget while using the software, or after closing and reopening it? Also is it on both the open and save windows or just one? I did have some problems during development when it would always open the dialogs on a specific directory, which I thought I had fixed. I'll look up the open/save windows documentation and try to see where it's going wrong.

[Copernic Reporter]

- Both: While using the software and after closing and reopening it.

- Both the open and save windows.

[Orry Verducci]

For some reason, I've been unable to recreate your problem on my end. Provided I select a file rather than canceling the window, my system is remembering the location (this is also Windows 7).

[Orry Verducci]

I've just released version 0.4 of SmoothTranscode, featuring a reorganised user interface, full 64-bit support, various bitrate options, frame rate support, advanced options for H.264 encoding as well as other improvements. It can be downloaded from its software page.

My next priority is to improve the website, which is currently quite basic, including completing the software documentation which is used by the help facility in the software. After this the plan is to introduce 2 pass encoding, video post processing (e.g. denoise, HQ scaling, etc) and other improvements.

[ToneKnee]

I'm still waiting for a piece of Transcoding software that will stream straight to DLNA enabled players and use hardware acceleration. I know PS3 Media Center can do this with a lot of tweaking and installing stuff, but it's not the same.

[Orry Verducci]

I've just released version 0.6 of SmoothTranscode, which once again can be downloaded from its software page.

Improvements for this release include 2 pass encoding, video post processing (deinterlace, denoise, etc), more information displayed about the input file and the conversion process, as well as lots of other small tweaks and bug fixes. As always let me know your feedback.

[farmeunit]

Checking it out soon. Thanks.