Recoder

Recoder is a GTK4-based GUI application for video transcoding. It provides a clean, modern interface using Libadwaita and integrates with ffmpeg to convert videos with ease.

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✨ Features

• Simple and elegant GTK4 interface
• Built with Libadwaita for a native GNOME look
• Supports common video formats using ffmpeg
• Lightweight and fast
• System notifications on task completion

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🛠 Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• GTK4
• Libadwaita
• ffmpeg
• Python bindings:
  • python-gobject

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🚀 Installation (Arch Linux)

git clone https://github.com/jeena/recoder.git
cd recoder
makepkg -si

This will install Recoder system-wide using Pacman, so you can later remove it cleanly:

sudo pacman -R recoder

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🧪 Development Setup

If you're hacking on Recoder:

git clone https://github.com/jeena/recoder.git
cd recoder
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .

Then run:

recoder

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📁 Project Structure

src/
└── recoder/
    ├── app.py
    ├── config.py
    ├── models.py
    ├── transcoder_worker.py
    └── ui.py
resources/
├── net.jeena.Recoder.desktop
└── net.jeena.Recoder.png

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📦 Packaging

Recoder follows modern Python packaging using pyproject.toml and setuptools. The Arch package installs Python modules to site-packages and the desktop file + icon in appropriate locations.

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📄 License

Licensed under the GPLv3. See LICENSE for details.

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👤 Author

Made by Jeena · github.com/jeena