No one is being a jerk here
Really? Literally the only thing they said was
Missing the ”made using AI, barely tested” disclaimer I see…
They didn't ask a question. They just came out swinging, for no reason. You asked three questions, and I'm not going to call you a jerk for it. But just coming in here and making snide remarks? Absolutely being a jerk.
Now, your questions.
- No, I didn't use unit tests. I built this for my own personal use, and tested it on my system and my wife's with files in a variety of containers encoded at a variety of bitrates with a variety of codecs - random crap we had laying around our hard drives, from the internet, from Steam and OBS records, from our phone cameras. This isn't commercial software, I'm not asking for donations, and I made the license The Unlicense because I don't want money or credit for it. I shared it because I got it working and I thought other people might find it useful too. I'm not going to exhaustively test it like I'm taking subscriptions, I hate testing. When I come across an issue, I fix it, and that's the best I'm offering.
- It's FFMPEG in the backend, and it processes files sequentially. It encodes whatever you put in to HEVC MKV, or H264 MP4. You can set the QP settings for the quality you want. Explain where you expect inefficiency and how I can fix it, and I will.
- I'm pushing from a local repo to my Github where it runs a job to compile the binaries for each platform, and to Codeberg where it's not doing that (so I only have the compiled binaries at GitHub right now).
- What fixes did I apply? Many. Some examples would be not successfully detecting available hardware, showing all available encoders rather than only the ones that would work with available hardware, failing to build (so many build failures), window sizing issues, options not showing, hanging on starting a job because the ffmpeg command was getting mangled, failing to find ffmpeg, unable to add files, unable to probe files, packet counting not working so "best guess" settings would result in larger files than the originals, that sort of thing.
And incidentally, the fact that this is a personal project I shared in case someone might find it useful is another reason that coming in here and throwing shade is a shitty thing to do. This isn't Stack Overflow. If it's no use to you, move on. If you have constructive criticism, let's hear it. If you can do it better, go ahead. But why try to make me feel bad about it, because you don't like the way I built it? I used spaces instead of tabs too, go get the fucking pitchforks.
I'm on a high horse? You're the one riding in here yelling at me for not conforming to your arbitrary rules I didn't know about, and defending someone who did nothing but insult me.
No, I don't know any such thing, I took offense to the implication that there was no effort put into this, and the absolute absence of any constructive criticism whatsoever. And again, I didn't agree to your rules, and I don't owe you anything, so take you imperious commands somewhere else, thank you very much.
See, this is something I can actually work with. I'm looking for places that unnecessary probes get spawned for example - there are some that are necessary for the way I want this thing to work, but there's one just for audio data when previous probes already get that. A useful observation that resulted in an improvement. Thank you.
First of all, I'm going to say this very clearly so maybe it gets through: I am not mad about questions. I am mad about insults and a lack of questions. Thank you for your attention to this matter 🤦 Next: Your thresholds are your responsibility, I didn't know about them when I built this and I didn't build it for you, I'm sharing it and you happened to stop by. I appreciate your observations on issues to watch out for when I'm using genAI code, I will be keeping an eye out for duplicated loops and other issues in future projects.
You have issued a few helpful specifics and otherwise roundly shouted at and condescended to me. You have a few things to learn about living in a civil society, based on how you treat strangers who are trying to learn new skills. Grow up.