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chamfay / Curlew

Easy to use and Free Multimedia Converter for Linux.
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interface and functionality improvements #13

Open philipzae opened 10 years ago

philipzae commented 10 years ago

I'm grateful to those involved in the development of this program as i wanted to do one similar to this as i am an ex-windows user who loves format factory and would like something similar to it in linux but unfortunately don't have the programming skills to do it.

Interface

1] alternative 'start conversion' button - looking at the gears icon, i keep thinking its the settings/preferences icon and have mistakenly clicked it multiple times, so would like to suggest a play icon. 2] format drop down categories - possibly categorizing the entries into groups would be easier to navigate. example group names might be named after the device it is to play on. ex. general, web browser, mobile phone, mp3 player, game console, dvd player

Functionality

1] file information - it would be nice to be able see a selected files information by right-clicking. this can be achieved with mediainfo < http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo > 2] copy track - 'Copy Mode' is available in the format drop down, but sometimes i would just like to copy the video and re-encode the audio. 3] processing internal subtitles - i watch alot of anime in mkv format and sometimes i want to convert them to avi format with either hardcoded subtitles < https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/How%20to%20burn%20subtitles%20into%20the%20video > or have it extracted as an .srt file.

Issues

1] unable to select mencoder in converter drop down though its installed

ghost commented 10 years ago

I do find the design to be confusing. If it was me I'd start with new design from scratch. Curlew devs: get some inspiration.