Honey, I Shrunk The Vids is an overengineered oversimplified system-agnostic frontend for FFMPEG.
This is a followup to a post I made yesterday, about a silly little Windows application I’d made for batch transcoding files. I wanted something that I could just dump my files onto without having to muck about with Handbrake or Tdarr - post here, for those curious: https://piefed.ca/c/selfhosted/p/568748/honey-i-shrunk-the-vids-a-windows-transcoding-frontend-for-ffmpeg
So I spent today making my silly little Windows application a silly little platform-agnostic application. I rewrote the whole thing in Rust and JavaScript with a webview frontend, and apparently Github lets you compile binaries for quite the range of target platforms, so I have compiled binaries available for Windows, Linux, and Mac (Intel/Apple Silicon). I’m pretty pleased with how it’s coming along - if anyone decides to give it a go, please let me know if you find issues!
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Compiled binaries can be downloaded at https://github.com/obelisk-complex/histv-universal/releases.






Hey, my ask if simple: if you find a problem, let me know so I can fix it. I already have implemented fixes based on other suggestions, even though the commenter was kind of a dick, and my application is better for it. You’re the one who swung in here with nothing to add except a snide remark trying to antagonise me. Again, I’m not expecting approbation (except for the name, that was mine and I like it), I just shared it in case it was useful to anyone else.
If it doesn’t work on someone’s system, I want to know so I can fix it. If someone finds a bug I couldn’t, I want to fix it. I’m trying to learn - to read code better, but also technical project management. It sounds like you might be in or around technical projects yourself, so you know shipping something that works is actually quite a challenge. It’s an area I want to get some practical experience in.
If there’s a discourse that everyone is supposed to label everything that involves genAI, then I haven’t been part of it. There was no memo, there are no rules in the sidebar, so you can’t expect everyone to just know to follow those guidelines.
Finally, I don’t care if you read my other replies to other people. I was having an emotion about people piling on me, because I get enough of that shit at work, but here at least I get to speak in my defense, so I did. Do me a favour though and quit assuming things about my personality or how I think of my own skill set (I don’t think I’m any kind of coder, for one thing. I’m at best a warlock who read some wizard books but couldn’t even light a candle without his patron). So do you intend to engage with me in good faith, or were you just looking for a temporary punching bag?