Offering a simple GUI for Video To Theora conversion

[chaiavi]

Hi Everyone,

I am a team member of the King's Quest IV remake group (Karen's Group).
Anyway, we wanted to use video in our AGS game, so looking at the AGS documentation we found out that the best video format one should use in the AGS engine is called Theora which has the foolowing file extension: .OGV

After checking many encoders all around I found out that the best encoder for this task is called: ffmpeg2theora.

It encoded out 81mb AVI file to a mere 300kb file without losing any quality!


the problem with this tool is that it is a command line based and that it has many arguments one should use in order to use it.



So I looked into it, then built a super easy GUI - windows application around it which simplifies it a lot!


I am here to contribute back to the AGS community - After using this small (no adware / spyware etc included!) utility I am releasing it as a free tool for use for anyone.


Just download it, add video file/s to the list, (optional) change quality [1-10] and click "convert" - can't be simpler.

Download Video to Theora Converter



If you find any bug, or have any feature request then please send me an email / PM.


Thanks,
Chaiavi.

[Khris]

Didn't try it yet but this sounds great!

[Sslaxx]

ffmpeg2theora - nice application, and nice to see someone making a front-end for it.

[chaiavi]

Thanks guys.

I have released now version 2.0 which adds a lot to it.


I know it is just a wrapper, but still there is no reason it should be crappy  :-)



Chaiavi

[arj0n]

@chaiavi:

Nice job 

I've been using this frontend for ffmpeg2theora for a while now: GFrontend (ffmpeg2theora) v2007.2 Final.
Does your frontend/GUI has any advantages over GFrontend?

[Slasher]

Seems a nice little application.

cheers for your efforts.

[chaiavi]

Thanks,

Mine is just much simpler, if you don't want to tweak all of the settings, and have no need for cropping etc then use mine.

If you need the advanced features GFrontEnd offers then by all means go for it.


I have created my version because I wanted something simple but with the full power of the commandline, so I am embedding all functionality behind the scenes.

I believe that any video editing (like cropping etc) shouldn't be done on the converter but it should be done using your favorite advanced video editor, my tool should only convert powerfully.


But if you configure GFrontend in the right way you will get the same exact results as you will get in my tool...


Chaiavi.

@chaiavi:

Nice job 

I've been using this frontend for ffmpeg2theora for a while now: GFrontend (ffmpeg2theora) v2007.2 Final.
Does your frontend/GUI has any advantages over GFrontend?