Videomass is a cross-platform GUI for FFmpeg and youtube-dl / yt-dlp.
Videomass is a cross-platform GUI designed for FFmpeg enthusiasts who need to manage custom profiles to automate conversion/transcoding processes.
It is based on an advanced use of presets and profiles in order to use most of the FFmpeg commands without limits of formats and codecs.
It features graphical tools for viewing, analyzing and processing multimedia streams and downloading videos via youtube-dl or yt-dlp.
Videomass is written in Python3 with the wxPython-Phoenix toolkit.
Changelog
Features
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Installing and Dependencies
For regular users (non-developers)
If you are not a programmer or if you are not familiar with the command line you can skip the whole part below and visit the Download and installation web page, which provides the information required to install Videomass on each operating system.
Requirements
- Python >= 3.7.0
- wxPython-Phoenix >= 4.0.7
- PyPubSub >= 4.0.3
- requests >= 2.21.0
- ffmpeg >=4.3
- ffprobe >=4.3 (usually bundled with ffmpeg)
- ffplay >=4.3 (usually bundled with ffmpeg)
Optionals
Install basic dependencies for your OS
| OS | Basic Dependencies |
|---|---|
| Linux/FreeBSD | python3, wxpython-phoenix, pip for python3, ffmpeg |
| MS Windows | python3, ffmpeg |
| MacOs | python3, pip for python3, ffmpeg |
Install Videomass using pip
python3 -m pip install videomass
This should also automatically install the remaining required dependencies such as wxPython (only for Mac-Os and Windows), PyPubSub, youtube-dl and requests.
On Linux and FreeBSD a launcher should be even created in the application launcher of your desktop environment.
To start Videomass on Mac-Os and MS-Windows open a console and type
videomasscommand.
Visit Installing dependencies wiki page for more explanations.
Start Videomass manually from source code
Videomass can be run without installing it, just download and unzip the source code archive and executing the "launcher" script inside the directory:
python3 launcher
First, make sure you have installed at least all the above required dependencies.
Visit Installing dependencies wiki page for more explanations.
Videomass can also be run in interactive mode with the Python interpreter, always within the same unpacked directory:
>>> from videomass import gui_app
>>> gui_app.main()