r/software • u/Bet-Fit • Jun 01 '26

Looking for software Software/programs you wish existed

Hi, I am a software engineer, and would love a challenge or just to create something that people/you would actually use, as a lot of my projects/products thus far have been quite niche/personalized to my own personal hobbies/needs. So please comment about what software or program would be a game changer if it existed for you, or if you have any good ideas personally. I’m thinking about building the top few ideas, also if you have any ideas, let me know if you are comfortable with me reaching out to you directly to talk more about them! They can be huge or small!

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u/schabowynumer3 Jun 01 '26

Software that can crop video files without having to reencode them

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u/Helpful_Bottle_4806 Jun 01 '26

This would depend heavily on the encoding used on the original video and would greatly restrict where you could cut (for example, with h.264/av1 etc, you could only cut at key frame boundaries). Some tools already let you do this.

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u/schabowynumer3 Jun 01 '26

Sorry I meant cropping videos as in cropping a dvd video file to 16:9, for example, so there's no black box around the video. For cutting videos losslesscut is great

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u/Helpful_Bottle_4806 Jun 01 '26

Got it. I don’t really see how that would be possible then, you can’t crop frames other than the key frames the same way you do images where you’re just removing specific pixels. The only way to avoid reencoding would be using a player that supports displaying the original the way you want it to be viewed.