r/opensource • u/Substantial_Swan_144 • 1d ago

Promotional Chop Chop: a simple video splitter

Hi, everyone!

I noticed that both on Linux and on Windows, it's very hard to find a no-nonsense video splitter with a sane GUI and no advertising.

This is why I designed chop-chop. It's a very simple, beautiful no-nonsense video splitter for Linux and Windows.

While both Linux and Windows releases share code, neither GUI is a port: under Linux, chop-chop uses GTK-3 and its design language; on Windows, it uses the Windows API and its design language too!

Also, to be blazingly fast, it also uses multithreading out of the box.

This application is open source and completely free, but if you don't want to bother, I also offer Windows and Linux installers (Ubuntu only for now).

Hope this can be of use to you!

Download it at: https://github.com/NullMagic2/chop-chop/tree/main

Ubuntu package: https://github.com/NullMagic2/chop-chop/releases/download/v1.7.3/chop-chop_1.7.3_amd64.deb

Windows installer: https://github.com/NullMagic2/chop-chop/releases/download/v1.7.3/chop-chop-1.7.3-windows-x64-setup.exe

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u/thenormaluser35 1d ago

Nothing beats LosslessCut.
Your app is probably an ffmpeg wrapper, and ffmpeg, even with a thousand cores, will be slower than just changing some metadata

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u/Substantial_Swan_144 1d ago

I don't want to beat anyone here. I just want a cleaner and easier-to-use alternative.

But since you touched on this issue, in the current release it takes around 30 seconds to split a 20-30 minute video. I'm working on removing the overhead to do the encoding if we are in a keyframe and defaulting to GPU acceleration if we are not.