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I think this is a great idea. Ffmpeg and imagemagick can be a pain in the ass. I'd buy it off there were a Linux version and an option to improve the contrast. (Grey text hurts my eyes.)
I’ll try to not be dismissive of the labour, though it’s kind of funny (or actually natural) that the heavy lifting libraries that only a few can actually write are open and free, while the shallow wrappers that everyone can write are paid and closed. Decades ago we were calling out these software and now it’s the norm. Another example along the line: I wanted to extract a frame from a video on iOS, it’s impossible w…
Upvoting you because my comment saying the same thing is getting downvotes and I really think the message is important. However I don't think it's fair to call this a "shallow wrapper". It's clear that a lot of work went into the design of this GUI and, and making user-friendly interfaces is also an important work (that is far too often overlooked in the open sources communities). Yet the fact that FFmpeg, the tool t…
The licenses for both ffmpeg and ImageMagick do not require anyone to mention them in the website.
However, if they are being re-distributed, there are clear obligations for providing source code and attributions. Omitting to do so is a violation of the legal obligations.
I’ll try to not be dismissive of the labour, though it’s kind of funny (or actually natural) that the heavy lifting libraries that only a few can actually write are open and free, while the shallow wrappers that everyone can write are paid and closed. Decades ago we were calling out these software and now it’s the norm. Another example along the line: I wanted to extract a frame from a video on iOS, it’s impossible w…
Context: a big chunk of my 2024 income was from grant money to build open source software that I may have tried to monetize otherwise. It’s possible.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
And you might be underestimating the work that went into those libraries. We are talking decades of work, dealing with platform issues, performance, loads of security considerations and then there is the whole licensing+patent topic. Sure UI work is hard, but of the whole package, it's only the visible part of the iceberg and now I'm expected to give $30 to the person who only contributed that last piece? Of course i…
For my own open source libraries, I have made a conscious decision to say "I don't care". And the language in which I'm saying it is legalese. It's all in the license. If I felt that people should give me a cut of any commercial software they build on top of my library then I would try to express that in my choice of license.
Though we as a community can still have views regarding kids hacking things trying to profit off decades of hard work by a large community. Different if they contribute back obvioisly. There are lots of compromise models out there.
Edit: Softened unreasonably provocative expressions
I’ll try to not be dismissive of the labour, though it’s kind of funny (or actually natural) that the heavy lifting libraries that only a few can actually write are open and free, while the shallow wrappers that everyone can write are paid and closed. Decades ago we were calling out these software and now it’s the norm. Another example along the line: I wanted to extract a frame from a video on iOS, it’s impossible w…
Perhaps the author would consider open sourcing if they received financial compensation for their work to date? Crowdfunding or retroactive grants can liberate code. Context: a big chunk of my 2024 income was from grant money to build open source software that I may have tried to monetize otherwise. It’s possible.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are lots of free and friendly frontends to FFmpeg. My choice would be VLC from videolan.org. I think calling the criticism "hate" is an unfair dismissal of the comments as disingenuous. I'd expect that most posters feel neutral, and wanted to share their thoughts in a non-interested way. (I know that VLC uses libavcodec from the FFmpeg project, rather than the frontend also known as FFmpeg.)
> There are lots of free and friendly frontends to FFmpeg. My choice would be VLC from videolan.org. I've seen this repeated a few times in this thread, yet nobody is naming anything. Can you name a free and friendly tool that allows cropping and trimming videos like OP's? And by friendly we agree that I just have to open the tool, drag my rectangle and click render.
(See also: Kdenlive)
I don't agree that's a good definition of friendly but that's ok.
I’ll try to not be dismissive of the labour, though it’s kind of funny (or actually natural) that the heavy lifting libraries that only a few can actually write are open and free, while the shallow wrappers that everyone can write are paid and closed. Decades ago we were calling out these software and now it’s the norm. Another example along the line: I wanted to extract a frame from a video on iOS, it’s impossible w…
I’ll try to not be dismissive of the labour, though it’s kind of funny (or actually natural) that the heavy lifting libraries that only a few can actually write are open and free, while the shallow wrappers that everyone can write are paid and closed. Decades ago we were calling out these software and now it’s the norm. Another example along the line: I wanted to extract a frame from a video on iOS, it’s impossible w…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
For my own open source libraries, I have made a conscious decision to say "I don't care". And the language in which I'm saying it is legalese. It's all in the license. If I felt that people should give me a cut of any commercial software they build on top of my library then I would try to express that in my choice of license.
I have the same view on my own FOSS work (also expressed in its license) and generally also don't think that FOSS authors should feel that their users are obligated to give them anything (beyond the conditions of the license). Though we as a community can still have views regarding kids hacking things trying to profit off decades of hard work by a large community. Different if they contribute back obvioisly. There ar…
And the mask slips. Maybe don't gatekeep software using licenses as they are designed to be used
It looks awesome and very handy, I found a few minor UI issues, I'm trying the Windows version on a 4k monitor. * The " * If the upper image crop handles are all the way at the top, they aren't clickable, they don't show the resize cursor. When you drag them it moves the window instead of the crop handle I have a few suggestions: * I'm not sure how feasible this is, but I think video should have a similar combined cr…
Nevertheless, I agree that two devices is too restrictive, it should be five or so.