Oggifier: A Simple GUI Wrapper for ffmpeg2theora

With the release of Firefox 3.5 earlier this week, the discussion around HTML5 and its native support for video and audio tags suddenly gained speed. One of the major issues around these new features is the lack of proper video codecs that can be used. Apple’s Safari supports H.264, but Firefox and other open source browsers can’t, due to licensing problems. Their adopted open source format, OGG, seems like the way to go, but it’s not that easy to generate, especially if you are on a Mac.

Yesterday, John Gruber from Daring Fireball published a lengthy post about possible solutions for OGG conversion on Mac, and his suggestion was to use Jan Gerber’s excellent ffmpeg2theora. I thought I would spend some time and build a simple GUI wrapper for this tool so it would be more easily adopted by Mac users. Today I am releasing an early beta version of Oggifier, a simple GUI wrapper around ffmpeg2theora.

Oggifier

Apart from a clean and simple user interface, Oggifier provides two additional features that might be useful to people:

You can get Oggifier 0.3.0 here. Please let me know what you think in the comments. I am planning to add support for advanced ffmpeg2theora options within the next few weeks.

Update: I just published version 0.3.0 that adds a simple preferences pane with support for automated conversion and optionally quitting after the process is complete.

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