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Video transcoding... easier than riding a bike.

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tricycle's Introduction

Tricycle

Tricycle is an open-source video transcoder for macOS and Windows. It takes the guesswork out of converting videos by using layman's terms and providing a reasonable default configuration. Tricycle is powered by other open-source projects such as FFmpeg, x264, and x265.

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Latest Version (2.6.1)

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Features

Reads/decodes most video and audio formats
Writes/encodes to the following formats
- Container formats:
  - MP4
  - MKV
- Video formats:
  - AVC (H.264)
  - HEVC (H.265)
- Audio formats:
  - AAC
  - Dolby Digital (AC-3)
  - Dolby TrueHD (copy/passthru to MKV only)
  - DTS (copy/passthru only)
  - DTS Master Audio (copy/passthru to MKV only)
Supports 4K resolution and HDR (HDR10)
Tonemaps HDR to SDR
Scales video to standard resolutions
Detects and crops black bars
Crops to a selected aspect ratio
Reduces noise in video
Overlays subtitles (all or forced only)
Supports mutliple audio tracks in mono, stereo, 5.1 surround, or 7.1 surround (copy/passthru to MKV only)

System Requirements

macOS

macOS High Sierra (10.13) or later

Windows

Windows 7 or later (64-bit)
.NET Framework 4.6.1 or later

License

Tricycle is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2. Please see the LICENSE file for more information.

Help

If you uncover a bug or have a feature request, please create an issue.

Contributing

Most contributions are welcome, but those not meeting the project's goals or standards may be rejected.

This project makes us of Git LFS for storing images and third-party executables. Please ensure that this is installed before cloning.

To begin, create a branch from master for the issue you are working on. Please use the following naming convention.

<feature|bugfix>/<issue-number>-<short-description>

If an issue does not exist for the improvement you would like to make, please create one. Once work is complete, create a pull request to have the branch merged into master.

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tricycle's Issues

Windows installer doesn't perform clean updates

The Windows installer seems to frequently produce bad installations, either the app won't start or changes will be missing from versions. The latter is likely caused by some files not getting updated.

Limit bitrate

As a user, I want to limit the average bitrate of a video so that it doesn't exceed my upload speed.

Tricycle closing when scanning files

Firstly, just wanted to say thank you for this tool! It has helped reduce my media library size considerably, and is making it viable to now keep more movies in 4K format than before.

Now to my problem. As the title suggests, having some issues when trying to convert some videos. Interestingly, not all, so I presume there is something about the file that Tricycle doesn't like, but can't tell what.

tricycle-2020-12-08.log

Attached is a log from one I know fails, so just ran it now to get the log file. I can provide more for different files if needed.
It doesn't have anything to do with size, as I have just ran some 120GB files through with no issues.

Running v2.4.3 on Windows 10 Pro, version 20H2, OS Build 19042.630. Using an i7-8700 with 32GB of RAM.

If you need any more information, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

Text-based subtitles don't work

Steps to reproduce

Select a source with text-based subtitles
Select the text-based track for the Subtitles picker
Run the job to completion

Actual result

No subtitles are seen when playing the video

Expected result

Subtitles are seen when playing the video

Destination may default to source

There are cases where the destination file name may default to that of the source.

Steps to reproduce:

Select an MKV as the source
Verify that a new MP4 file is set as the default destination
If necessary, change the destination directory to be the same as the source
Select MKV for the container format

Actual Result:
The destination file name is now the same as the source.

Expected Result:
The destination file name uses the default MKV extension, but is different than the source.

Add de-interlacing support

As a user I want to de-interlace/decomb videos so that they have less-noticeable lines when playing them.

Just stumbled upon this app and it refuses to work, also have a feat request :D

No matter what I do it will always tell me "Not such directory exists" so I can not convert any single file at the mo :(

Also is it possible to add an option to choose your own bitrate for a video?

Manual cropping support

As a user, I want to manually specify the crop parameters for a movie so that black bars will be removed even when Tricycle doesn't detect them.

Just trying this out

I read your issue about the Windows msi installer not being so great so I extracted all the files from the msi and found 135 files and one "assets" folder. Is this correct to make your app run?? Most are system....dll files.

Templates don't load properly on Big Sur

When loading a template that contained a single Stereo AAC track, an empty audio element was left and the correct audio was not populated.

Progress isn't displayed for some videos

When transcoding some videos, progress isn't displayed.

Can't transcode any file

A user is receiving the following error upon starting a transcode in Tricycle 2.4.2 on Windows. Multiple files were tried and none of them worked. It may be related to culture settings.

The following log file was provided.

tricycle-2020-05-31.log

Unsupported Audio alert is cut off on Windows

The alert that is titled "Unsupported Audio" is getting cut off on Windows.

Steps to reproduce:

Select a source with an HD audio track
Select MKV for the container format
Select the HD audio track and select the same format as the source track
Select MP4 for the container format

Actual Result:
An alert is displayed, but the action buttons can't be seen.

Expected Result:
The full alert text is visible as well as all the buttons.

Styling issue with audio panel on Big Sur

On macOS Big Sur, the audio panel has excessive padding on the left that is causing the controls to overflow on the right.

Add queue

As a user, I want to add multiple transcode jobs to a queue so that they all execute without intervention in between them.

Chroma subsampling: 4:2:0 (Type 2)

I noticed handbrake and now tricycle did not carry over the proper chroma subsampling carried in my file. Which is Chroma subsampling: 4:2:0 (Type 2)

I was trying to get a handle on if this would affect my encode, but I am still not sure. Here (Doom9) is a thread I was reading on it. Might only come into play when downsizing. Not sure though.

Add debug logging

As a user, I want Tricycle to output debug logs so that I can send them to a developer to troubleshoot an issue.

Remember last-used destination directory

As a user, I want Tricycle to remember the directory of the destination file I select so that it takes me fewer clicks to select a destination file in the same directory.

Not all language codes are supported

Some languages are being displayed with codes instead of their name.

Steps to reproduce:

Select a source that contains either an audio or subtitle track with language code "fre".

Actual Result:
"fre" is displayed in the app.

Expected Result:
"French" is displayed in the app.

Generalize HDR Support

As a developer, I want the way that HDR is applied to videos to be independent of an encoder so that I can add other encoders without losing HDR support.

Currently, there are parameters that are set via x265 options, including HDR metadata and colorspace. Another mechanism should be used to set those so that other HEVC encoders can be added.

Follow OS-specific design conventions

As a user, I want Tricycle to look like it was built specifically for macOS and Windows so that it matches the other apps that I use.

A good example of this is Visual Studio. On Windows, build progress is displayed in a status bar at the bottom of the window. On macOS, it is displayed in a box at the top-middle of the window similar to Xcode and iTunes.

Feature Request: Debian-based Linux Support

Not sure how difficult to port to Debian-based Linux. Currently utilize Ubuntu for it's ability to utilize Intel Quick Sync. Trying to get Darling working at the moment and see if it would be able to handle Tricycle. Command line would be helpful in utilizing Tricycle in headless Debian-based setups.

Can't open any video file

I'm trying version 2.3.0 on Windows 10 64-bit English and I can't open any video file. I have tried several mp4 and mkv files.

Invalid Source
The selected file could not be opened.

Command-line Interface

As a user, I want a command-line interface so that I can automate transcode jobs.

Pattern-based Source Selection

As a user, I want to select the source using a pattern (wildcards/regex) so that I can transcode all files with names matching that pattern.

VideoToolbox Hardware Acceleration

As a user, I want to use Apple's VideoToolbox technology to accelerate transcodes so that jobs take much less time to complete.