YAVE

YAVE (Yet Another Video Encoder) is a focused desktop FFmpeg transcoding frontend written in Go and Fyne. It exposes a curated set of modern software and VAAPI encoders, reusable YAML profiles, safe output templates, transparent FFmpeg commands, progress reporting, logs, and cancellation.

Requirements

• Go 1.26 or newer
• FFmpeg and ffprobe available in PATH, or configured in the application
• Linux desktop development libraries required by Fyne:
  • OpenGL development files
  • X11 development files
  • libgl1-mesa-dev and xorg-dev on Debian/Ubuntu
• A usable VAAPI render device, normally /dev/dri/renderD128, for VAAPI profiles

Build and run

go build -o yave ./cmd/yave
./yave

An input file can be supplied as the first argument or dropped onto the application window:

./yave /path/to/video.mkv

Profiles and settings

Configuration is stored in the platform user configuration directory. On Linux the default path is:

~/.config/yave/config.yaml

The file is human-readable YAML and contains profiles, the startup default, and FFmpeg executable paths. Built-in profiles are installed when no profile configuration exists.

YAVE validates saved profiles against the encoders reported by the current FFmpeg build. Unavailable or incompatible settings remain editable, but conversion cannot start until validation errors are resolved.

Output templates

The default template is:

{dir}/{name}_{profile}.{ext}

Supported placeholders are {dir}, {name}, {ext}, {input_ext}, {datetime}, {date}, {time}, {profile}, {codec}, {width}, and {height}. Placeholder values are sanitized and templates containing unknown placeholders or path traversal are rejected.

Thanks

Special thanks to the people who helped shape YAVE.

App icon

• @lonelyowl
• @mychaelo

Verification

go test ./...
go vet ./...
go build ./cmd/yave