Update playing_videos.rst

[hislittlecuzin]

Added link to a GUI tool I wrote today for FFmpeg to make it easier to convert videos.

This is my first PR, I think I followed all the guidelines.

I think FFmpeg could be complex for some users & I dislike writing verbose command line stuff, so I created this very small simple program.

I think this will benefit the community and to have a free and open source program to use FFmpeg without having to mess with the command line.

I will make a video tutorial in the future to make the process of converting pre-rendered videos easier for this utility program.

[AThousandShips]

See also:

• Add commands for converting videos to animated WebP in Creating movies #9095

[hislittlecuzin]

See also:

• Add commands for converting videos to animated WebP in Creating movies #9095

Looks interesting.
If it's 123 to convert mp4 to ogv, that's awesome.

I assume you checked out the repo I linked.
For lurkers, this is what the wrapper program I wrote looks like so it's easier to use FFmpeg:

[AThousandShips]

I haven't looked at it yet I'm not responsible for handling these specific things

[Calinou]

Out of curiosity, why not use Handbrake instead? If you follow the advice outlined in the documentation, you can ignore most of its UI and only change what's actually needed.

This avoids having to install FFmpeg separately, which can be troublesome on Windows for users not knowledgeable with the command line, finding the right (up-to-date) FFmpeg build and so on.

[hislittlecuzin]

Out of curiosity, why not use Handbrake instead? If you follow the advice outlined in the documentation, you can ignore most of its UI and only change what's actually needed.

I didn't think handbrake could do what I want.
I have it downloaded/installed but the format ogg isn't listed. (And you really need ogv which I didn't realize because Godot editor plays it but godot standalone executible doesn't)

If Handbrake CAN convert mp4 to ogv, a tutorial would be cool but I didn't see a way to do it with Handbrake so I wrote a shell program for FFmpeg so that program could be used.

This avoids having to install FFmpeg separately, which can be troublesome on Windows for users not knowledgeable with the command line, finding the right (up-to-date) FFmpeg build and so on.

It could-but improvements to the GUI wrapper program could be made to help overcome this.

If Handbrake has a way to do OGV we can forget about FFmpeg.