Vid Cleaner

Tools to transcode, inspect and convert videos. This package provides convenience wrappers around ffmpeg and ffprobe to make it easier to work with video files. The functionality is highly customized to my personal workflows and needs. I am sharing it in case it is useful to others.

Features

Remove commentary tracks and subtitles
Remove unwanted audio and subtitle tracks
Convert to H.265 or VP9
Convert 4k to 1080p
Downmix from surround to create missing stereo streams with custom filters to improve quality
Removes unwanted audio and subtitle tracks, optionally keeping the original language audio track
Create clips from a video file

Install

Before installing vid-cleaner, the following dependencies must be installed:

ffmpeg
ffprobe
python 3.11+

To install vid-cleaner, run:

pip install vid-cleaner

Usage

Run vidcleaner --help to see the available commands and options.

Contributing

Setup: Once per project

Install Python 3.11 and uv
Clone this repository. git clone https://github.com/natelandau/vid-cleaner
Install the virtual environment with uv sync.
Activate your virtual environment with source .venv/bin/activate
Install the pre-commit hooks with pre-commit install --install-hooks.

Developing

This project follows the Conventional Commits standard to automate Semantic Versioning and Keep A Changelog with Commitizen.
- When you're ready to commit changes run cz c
Run poe from within the development environment to print a list of Poe the Poet tasks available to run on this project. Common commands:
- poe lint runs all linters
- poe test runs all tests with Pytest
Run uv add {package} from within the development environment to install a run time dependency and add it to pyproject.toml and uv.lock.
Run uv remove {package} from within the development environment to uninstall a run time dependency and remove it from pyproject.toml and uv.lock.
Run uv lock --upgrade from within the development environment to update all dependencies in pyproject.toml.

natelandau / vid-cleaner