GitHub - gianni-rosato/vt-enc: FFmpeg VideoToolbox frontend in Bash
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vt-enc is a bash script that simplifies the process of encoding videos with FFmpeg using Apple’s VideoToolbox framework on macOS. It provides an easy-to-use command-line interface for encoding videos with various options, including codec selection, quality settings, and scaling.

  • @EarMaster
    1•1 month ago

    An alternative: https://alfg.dev/ffmpeg-commander/

    Provides a web interface to generate ffmpeg commands (works on every platform).

    Out of interest: What does VideoToolbox do in that context? I found nothing in the readme that would require anything else than just ffmpeg. Or is it just the compiling of a custom ffmpeg build that is VT specific?

    • Gianni ROPEnglish
      1•30 days ago

      VideoToolbox is the encoder that FFmpeg links to.

      • @EarMaster
        1•29 days ago

        So when vt-enc only creates ffmpeg commands why is VT a dependency for the whole prpject?

        • Gianni ROPEnglish
          2•28 days ago

          vt-enc calls FFmpeg which calls the VideoToolbox encoding framework. Without VT, ffmpeg commands will fail

          • @EarMaster
            1•26 days ago

            But ffmpeg works fine on other platforms without VideoToolbox. So why do I need VT for vt-enc? Wouldn’t it work just fine on other platforms as long as ffmpeg is available?

            • Gianni ROPEnglish
              0•23 days ago

              You need VideoToolbox for this particular tool because it calls the VideoToolbox library from within FFmpeg in order to encode the video.

              “Why do I need x264 to encode H.264 in FFmpeg?” is essentially what you’re asking. FFmpeg needs VideoToolbox support to work with my tool.

              If you’re asking why I chose to use VideoToolbox in the first place, it was because I want this to be a macOS-specific tool with very fast encoding speeds at decent fidelity per bit. Hardware accelerated video encoding is one way to make this happen.