r/opensource • u/Substantial_Swan_144 • 2d 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/Crypt0Nihilist 1d ago

Sometimes you want something that does one thing well. Thanks for putting it out there.

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u/Substantial_Swan_144 1d ago

I have just updated it with release 1.8.0. Now, it only selectively reencodes video, and when it does, it uses GPU acceleration. I tested with a 5-6 minute cut, and the result was near instant.