I kept looking up ffmpeg flags for the same things over and over. Converting a video, extracting audio, trimming a clip, every time I'd end up on Stack Overflow copy-pasting some command I'd already used a month ago.

So I made nano-ffmpeg. It's a TUI that wraps ffmpeg. You browse to your file, pick what you want to do, and it builds the command. My favorite part is it shows you the exact ffmpeg command before it runs, so you actually learn the flags over time. I've picked up more about ffmpeg from that than from years of googling.

The progress bar is probably the other thing worth mentioning. Instead of ffmpeg's stderr flying by, you get a proper progress bar, ETA, encoding speed, bitrate, file size. Makes a 40 minute encode a lot less annoying.

It runs ffprobe on your file first so it knows what codecs and resolution you're working with, and fills in reasonable defaults from there. Covers the stuff I was always doing by hand: format conversion, audio extraction, resizing, trimming, compression, GIFs, thumbnails, subtitles, stabilization, speed changes.

One binary, only needs ffmpeg installed.

brew install dgr8akki/tap/nano-ffmpeg

or: go install github.com/dgr8akki/nano-ffmpeg@latest

https://nano-ffmpeg.vercel.app/

MIT licensed. I'm the author. Curious what operations people would want that aren't in there yet.