Hi, I'm finding your converter front-end very useful, however there is a plethora of small improvements that coud be made to greatly polish the app. Please consider the following:
When adding files via "Add files", the file chooser filters by file type. Only video type container files can be added. However, when using the "Subfolders" method it will add EVERYTHING in the folders, regardless of type. The huge problem with this is if you have a metadata or image file (NFO or JPG, for example) with the same base name as the video file, your tool will attempt to have FFMPEG encode the NFO / JPG / whatever. What happens is this overwrites the valid output file that has already been encoded. I have lost 24+ hours of encoding time twice now because of this. So I feel that adding by "Subfolders" should only add valid container types based on extension. Additionally, your tool knows when it will be outputting more than one file with the exact same filename (which is different than the file already existing). In this case it should use an incremental number so as to not overwrite the file it just encoded. In all cases, overwriting an output file that was already created during the same batch is totally pointless (always a waste of time) and not what the user would desire.
"Recreate on source" path should only create / use paths relative to the input path, instead of the absolute path. Example: /video/foo/bar/test.mpg and the input path is /video/foo. It should not create /video/foo/video/foo/bar/test.out and instead create /video/foo/bar/test.out.
It would be very useful to have a button for the Output path to simply have it use the input path. Or make that the default.
Editing existing presets is clunky, unless I'm missing something. It seems I have to save an entirely new preset with a new name, then delete the existing preset, then save my new preset as my original preset name, and then delete the temporary preset. Is that really the only way to edit a preset? It would be much easier to just be able to save over the existing preset. Just ask if they are sure they want to overwrite.
Custom presets should appear at the top of the drop-list instead of the bottom, since the ones defined by the user are the ones they care most about.
Since the entire point of this tool is to automate tedious, long-running tasks that can potentially run for days, it would be extremely useful to have a resume capability in case there was a power outage or other issue that terminated the software. This would be fairly complex to implement, but would be nice.
Thanks!
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Hi, I'm finding your converter front-end very useful, however there is a plethora of small improvements that coud be made to greatly polish the app. Please consider the following:
/video/foo/bar/test.mpgand the input path is/video/foo. It should not create/video/foo/video/foo/bar/test.outand instead create/video/foo/bar/test.out.Thanks!
Hi, thanks for your suggestions, I'll try to implement as many of them as I can on next release.