Video Commander
The IDE for video engineers
44 followers
The IDE for video engineers
44 followers
The IDE for video engineers. Consolidates FFmpeg, ffprobe, MediaInfo, and more into a desktop workspace — project sidebar, tabbed files, jobs queue for long-running tasks. Inspect, convert, analyze, and validate local or remote media without juggling terminal windows.
Video Commander
Hello everyone,
I'm Alf, a video engineer with 10+ years building tools in the multimedia space. Video Commander is the IDE for video engineers: a unified desktop workspace that consolidates FFmpeg, ffprobe, MediaInfo, and more into a single environment with a project sidebar, tabbed file management, and a jobs queue for long-running tasks.
If you've ever had six terminal windows open just to inspect a stream, transcode a file, and validate the output, then this is built for you.
I've been building open-source and commercial tools in this space for years. This is the product I always wanted to exist but couldn't find.
One early user said: "One of those things you keep expecting someone to build properly, and it just didn't exist." Happy to answer anything about the build, especially the FFmpeg internals or why I went Tauri over Electron.
10+ years in multimedia and building the tool you wished existed — that resonates. I'm a solo dev with 25 years in video production, building a Mac-native video editor for the same reason: the tool I needed didn't exist. Curious about the Tauri choice — how's the performance compared to Electron for heavy media inspection workloads? The jobs queue for long-running tasks is a smart touch.
Video Commander
@cyberseeds Hi Kiyoshi, thanks for checking it out. I went with Tauri mostly for the Rust-backend and performance. I'm using some of my own crates for video inspection and analysis. Keeping the binary size small is nice as well. For spawning FFmpeg and VMAF jobs it's mostly for job and queue management.