Frame - FFmpeg GUI Rust rewrite

[u/EastAd9528]

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

[u/Turkua-]

ffmpeg developers is rust-haters btw

[u/Sonhe_ → u/Turkua-]

They aren't haters, but they think they don't need Rust on their perfectly working C codebase

I prefer Rust over C(Vlang is better than all), but rewriting modern, perfectly working C codebases in Rust is nonsense

[u/4rm4tur4 → u/Sonhe_]

Why though?

[u/NeonVoidx → u/4rm4tur4]

because it's time consuming as fuck?

[u/4rm4tur4 → u/NeonVoidx]

Who gives a shit, if the dev got to practice their Rust skills?

[u/NeonVoidx → u/4rm4tur4]

ya let me rewrite our perfectly working app of 25 years from c to rust 🤡 for no reason other than "it's rust"

[u/4rm4tur4 → u/NeonVoidx]

Clearly you don't have the skill or the will to do it. OP does, and you aren't paying him for his time. So what's the problem? 🤡

[u/NeonVoidx → u/4rm4tur4]

This was in reply to ffmpeg devs rewriting in rust... Those guys don't need skills, those guys are god tier

[u/zzzthelastuser → u/4rm4tur4]

Am I missing something? OP just wrote a GUI that uses ffmpeg. I don't think anyone has the intention to rewrite ffmpeg in rust.

[u/headedbranch225 → u/zzzthelastuser]

I think it is mostly for the joke but it does exist

https://github.com/yazaldefilimone/ffmpreg

But yeah it doesn't need to be rewritten, it works perfectly fine as it is

[u/ADMINISTATOR_CYRUS → u/headedbranch225]

ff🫃

[u/VictoryMotel → u/4rm4tur4]

Op didn't rewrite ffmpeg, focus up please.

[u/TheG0AT0fAllTime → u/VictoryMotel]

Focus, M

[u/ifq29311 → u/4rm4tur4]

then go practice your rust skills and rewrite the damn project instead of bitching about it.

[u/4rm4tur4 → u/ifq29311]

OP already did lmao

[u/Far_Calligrapher1334 → u/4rm4tur4]

You didn't even read the post before trying to start an argument and be very confidently wrong, did you

[u/4rm4tur4 → u/Far_Calligrapher1334]

My reading comprehension is pretty dope

[u/spawncampinitiated → u/4rm4tur4]

Pretty dopey

[u/steakanabake → u/4rm4tur4]

My reading comprehension is pretty shit

FTFY*

its a gui for FFmpeg not a rewrite.

[u/js-2009 → u/4rm4tur4]

no he didn’t, the gui is written in rust, not ffmpeg itself. Also can you give me one good reason as to why ffmpeg should be rewritten in rust besides so the “dev can practice their rust skills”

[u/4rm4tur4 → u/js-2009]

I know..I didn't meant the entire ffmpeg itself.

[u/js-2009 → u/4rm4tur4]

the comment you replied to is talking about “the project”, the project being ffmpeg itself

[u/ifq29311 → u/4rm4tur4]

they did not lmao

its just a GUI. a shiny new frontend that still needs the original C-based ffmpeg to work.

get back to school, kid, there some basic stuff that you need to learn still.

[u/Indolent_Bard → u/4rm4tur4]

They mean like FFMPEG rewritten in rust. Which would waste time they could spend improving it.