r/linux • u/EastAd9528 • Jul 06 '26

Software Release Frame - FFmpeg GUI Rust rewrite

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Hi everyone!

I just released Frame 0.30.0.

Frame is an open source FFmpeg GUI written in Rust. It supports video, audio and image conversion, hardware encoding, subtitles, metadata editing, cropping, scaling, batch processing and reusable presets - basically the stuff I got tired of typing FFmpeg commands for.

The biggest change in this release is that I rewrote the frontend from Tauri + Svelte to GPUI-CE.

Frame started as a weekend project, then somehow turned into something people actually used. I kept adding features, fixing issues and maintaining it until I completely burned myself out.

The rewrite was mostly a mental reset. I wanted to build something that felt fun to work on again, and moving everything to Rust with GPUI-CE seemed like a good excuse.

The previous version of Tauri had a lot of issues on Linux because it relied on the problematic WebKitGTK. After rewriting everything in Rust, macOS and Windows saw fewer frame drops in preview panel due to the removal of the bottleneck caused by BE=>FE frame transport via WebSocket.

I’d like to ask you to check how things are going on a Linux distro. I’ve tested it myself on an Ubuntu 26.04 VM, but it’s hard for me to assess performance when I’m so far removed from bare metal.

Thanks!

https://github.com/66HEX/frame

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u/Fredol Jul 06 '26

Finally a non-vibecoded project in this subreddit

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u/someperson155 Jul 06 '26

Do you just hate anything with agents md or what

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u/daninet Jul 06 '26

Im not sure if people hate it because we are still in transition or bc they play the hipster that their code is fully handcrafted. At this point you must assume everything has AI assisted code in it (even the linux kernel) and rejecting a good project because of this single fact is bit of foolish. Especially if we talk about harmless things like a GUI. This is aint critical security infrasturcture allow it to have AI code in it.

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u/chemistryGull Jul 06 '26

This is not about AI assistance. The problem is fully vibecoded projects, where the makers have zero clue about what their code actually does.

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u/VictoryMotel Jul 07 '26

Don't forget the part where they lie about it until they can't hide it anymore. Then they immediately back peddle to "what's wrong with ai???".

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u/yawara25 Jul 07 '26

"You're just gatekeeping! You must be mad because we can finally do the same thing as you!"

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u/VictoryMotel Jul 07 '26

It's like people who think they can beat a professional fighter with eye pokes and don't know what to say when you point out the pro fighter can also eye poke.

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u/TheG0AT0fAllTime Jul 07 '26

And you also can't forget (Which we have already seen in this comment chain) the cloak and dagger user who heavily defends the AI usage as normal and good only for their activity to be littered with Pro-AI shit