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Arm support or possibly disable check at start up?

2022-04-12
2022-04-14
  • Dennis Plester

    Dennis Plester - 2022-04-12

    Hi, thanks for making this application. Still early days but am finding it the most straightforward to use for my needs to rip and then transcode my entire physical BD and UHD library. I use multiple PCs to speed up the process. I know how to build my own FFmpeg command lines but your wizard and queue handling beats anything else I use hands down for ease of use.

    Have you ever considered supporting ARM processors directly or at least disable the processor check so that it could possibly run in the ARM edition of Windows 11 using its in built x86/x64 emulation layer?

    I have a nice shiny M1 Ultra Mac Studio that is not doing much at the moment. It does an excellent job running my other must have windows only apps via Windows 11 ARM via Parallels. Despite trying everything I can think of though, I have not yet been able to get FFmpeg Batch to run via Wine in MacOS or in Windows 11 ARM via Parallels. It always comes up with the "This only supports X86/X64 type" error. I was wondering if it would work if you turned the processor/architecture check off in the installer or portable versions?

    Some basic FFmpeg command lines suggest this machine is an encoding beast, so it would be great to be able to use FFmpeg Batch with it in some form, even via emulation to work through some of my backlog on the side.

    ARM support or not, thanks for the great tool! And if you ever want someone to test ARM or M1 support through Windows 11 ARM or other means, my M1 Mac Mini and M1 Ultra Mac Studio are sitting here ready to go.

    Cheers,

    Dennis

     
  • Abel

    Abel - 2022-04-13

    Hi, thanks for your message and the info. I guess you tried last Linux Wine version (2.3.1). If not, you could try it. It it fails anyway, I'm for the moment pausing new features/support for lack of time.

     
  • Dennis Plester

    Dennis Plester - 2022-04-14

    I did try the Wine version without success. I'll keep playing with it and see if I can get a breakthrough. Shutter Encoder is available compiled for M1 and does everything I need it to do, but I must say your queue UI is heaps better, at least for me.

    I totally understand how real life gets in the way, and I appreciate what you've done here. I think I've seen an option somewhere to donate, so you can expect a payment from me shortly for what you have given me on my Windows x86/x64 machines anyway.

     
  • Dennis Plester

    Dennis Plester - 2022-04-14

    Just sent US$30 your way. Not sure if that is an appropriate amount but thanks again for this awesome FFmpeg batch utility. Easily the best out there.

     
  • Abel

    Abel - 2022-04-14

    Thank you very much for your kind words and your genereous donation. I'm happy to have helped at least on the Windows part. It's a pity that I started developing the app using old .NET technology, and now application grew to such an extend that makes platform migration practically a complete rework.

     

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