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Geppettvs D'Constanzo
Asked: 2020-02-29 13:27:27 +0800 CST

Are there some Text User Interface programs for ffmpeg and other?

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fdisk seems to have a Text User Interface via Cfdisk.

But I would like to know if there are some other useful tools like this for, let's say: ffmpeg and maybe some other like mail clients, other than alpine and these not-so-easy to use for the common user.

I mean: something easier, something which looks like a program, made for using the program, not to code it from scratch and without the need to write complex commands to do the task.

In example: If I want to convert my png files to jpg in a folder I know I can run for i in *.png; do convert "$i" -[parameter1] -[parameter2] -[parameter3] -[and so on] converted-"$i".jpg; done;

What if there is a tool for text mode only which shows something like this?

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Folder [ ~/Pictures/folder-to-convert/ ]

Source Format      [ PNG ]
Destination Format [ JPG ]

[X] Resize
--- Width  [ 1920 ] [ ] auto
--- Height [      ] [X] auto

[X] Change quality
--- Percentage [ 60 ]

          [ PROCESS ]
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Maybe something like this has been made before, and for other tasks. Which I would like to find.

Edit

Here is an example of what I am looking for, but for other software, like ffmpeg and if there is a collection of Software like this, I'll appreciate your answers.

LazyGit

In example, Jesse Duffield has created lazygit

A simple terminal UI for git commands, written in Go with the gocui library. Source: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

Which, in my laptop looks like this:

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And this animation, which is provided by Jesse Duffield git repository:

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I know I can create my own piece of Software with python, php, or any other programming language. But I would like to find alternatives to some GUI's for the terminal only.

Any ideas are welcome.

software-recommendation command-line ncurses

1 Answers

  1. That's AKA the 'curses' interface which requires adding the ncurses library with 

    sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev

    Each curses interface app has its own package. One example is cmus (more) for ffmpeg.

    You can web search for more with the search term nameofapp curses ncurses . Once you find one, then confirm it's available for your version number of Ubuntu with man nameofapp run at a shell prompt.

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