![]() ![]() Bottom line, I found a – what I believe – better alternative that can do more and is completely open source and free-of-charge. I needed to convert some videos - that’s why I even looked into this at the moment - so I went on and looked for alternatives on the Internet. So I asked them if they could create a discount code for me. As I’ve been working with e-commerce shops for many years now, it is obvious that they could simply create a discount code for me so I can quickly purchase my upgrade and we’re set. □ In a quick reply I pointed out that actually the website said iFFmpeg 4,5,6 users should be getting it, and that I noticed during checkout that there’s a discount code field. Their reply came swiftly and was short: only iFFmpeg 6 customers can upgrade for that price. As a loyal user that would have definitely been an easy move. Sending an email is quick, so I dropped them a quick note asking if I could also upgrade for the upgrade price. At least that’s what’s stated on their website. I noticed on their website that there is also a special upgrade price for iFFmpeg 4,5,6 users for only €10. Quite reasonable a price I thought - even though the original iFFmpeg did cost US$15 (~€12.73). So I looked up what the full version costs and it is something like €20 for the license. I downloaded that and it works out-of-the-box. Since I purchased a license of iFFmpeg 3 back in the day, new versions had been published as iFFmpeg 4, 5, 6 and then it got rebranded to ffWorks, which is available as a free trial. ![]() Unfortunately, iFFmpeg is a 32 bit application, which can not run on Catalina - while the command line tool ffmpeg runs perfectly on 64 bit. And I loved using it.Īfter many months of resisting, I finally upgraded my macOS to Catalina. That’s what iFFmpeg was: a graphical user interface for the powerful command line tool ffmpeg. While I generally like command line programs, we all get older and sometimes it is just quicker to use such a tool through user interface where one can click buttons, batch process things easily and so on. The open source command line program ffmpeg is a quasi industry standard - a powerful tool that can do almost anything to a video / media file. On my Mac I used to use iFFmpeg for over 7 years and did buy a license back then. May it be for simply changing the video codec or for simple things like reducing file size through increasing compression, reducing resolution or similar things. For those of you who deal with videos and video formats either for fun or for work, you got to be able to convert (aka transcode) videos from time to time. ![]()
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