ffdash is a terminal UI for batch VP9/AV1 video encoding with hardware acceleration, real-time progress monitoring, and full control over quality settings. Made to work as a dashboard over SSH.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Batch processing – Encode entire directories with parallel workers, adjustable on the fly.
- Hardware acceleration – QSV, VA-API (Intel/AMD) and NVENC (NVIDIA >= Ada Lovelace) for fast encodes.
- Auto-VMAF calibration – Automatically tune quality to hit a target VMAF score.
- Encoding profiles – Save and load encoding presets for different use cases.
- Live dashboard – Real-time ETA, throughput, queue progress, and system stats.
- Full tunability – Rate control modes, quality presets, filters, GOP settings, audio options.
- Keyboard-first – Fast navigation, built-in help, SSH-friendly, mouse support.
- Dry-run preview – See exact FFmpeg commands before encoding.
Website: github.com/bcherb2/ffdash
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Developer: ffdash contributors
License: MIT License
ffdash is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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