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.

  • Gianni ROPEnglish
    1•1 month ago

    VideoToolbox is the encoder that FFmpeg links to.

    • @EarMaster
      1•1 month ago

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

      • Gianni ROPEnglish
        2•1 month ago

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

        • @EarMaster
          1•1 month 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•28 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.