Contribution: Frontend for diffing folders and easily start Video-compare

[bjspi]

Hi all,

just wanted to give back some information to the community after having found this tool a while back and really loving it.

I mainly use it after re-encoding a big bunch of smartphone vacation videos (sometimes 100+ videos) to quickly verify the results. Normally I have two folders from my video-encoding, "input" & "output" and I always found it a bit cumbersome to start video-compare via CMD, because I didnt find a way to do it quickly. Yes I could create a Batch file, but drag/drop from two different Windows folders to one Batch-file is simply not possible.

I use BeyondCompare for all sorts of diffing already (yes I know, paid software, but at least has a trial) and wanted to share an amazing way to do the job quickly.

First: While diffing the folders (in my example input & output), I can set BeyondCompare to align filenames with different file-extensions. That's helpful when I have multiple different input sources like IPhones (-> *.mov files), Android phones (mp4 files) and transcode them all to target mp4 files. It aligns the files properly if the basename of the file is identical.

After aligning, I see the differences like in the following screenshot. I simply have to click in the middle to select both files at the same type and press "v" on my keyboard (or via right-click contextmenu), which opens up the viedo-compare instance with both the files as parameters.

This "Open-with" command can be configured under options like this:

And yes, of course I could also add custom cmd-flags / options, e.g. the hopefully upcoming "Scale to fit screen" setting to scale properly irrespectively of the resolution of the video files - very helpful when working with mixed 4k / 1080p files in the same diff.

So finally, this really is amazing if you are dealing with a big amount of video-files and you'd like to graphically open up video-compare via a GUI.

Hope it helps

[aelfwine88]

Total Commander version:

Add new button to the toolbar with the following:
Command -> full path to video-compare.exe
Parameters -> your video-compare parameters %P%S %T%R

%P%S means full path to source
%T%R means full path to target

[bjspi]

Total Commander version:

Add new button to the toolbar with the following: Command -> full path to video-compare.exe Parameters -> your video-compare parameters %P%S %T%R

%P%S means full path to source %T%R means full path to target

Can total commander also align files with different file extension side by side? Thanks, sounds also really nice

[aelfwine88]

Can total commander also align files with different file extension side by side? Thanks, sounds also really nice

It has a Extension Tab by default that you can use to sort files.

[jonfryd]

Awesome. Keep 'em coming, guys!

[bjspi]

Awesome. Keep 'em coming, guys!

With the latest change, I'd also change my above command in BeyondCompare to "D:\PortableTools\video-compare\video-compare.exe -W "%f1" "%f2""

(-W in capital w is the CMD option for the next release, right?)

[jonfryd]

Awesome. Keep 'em coming, guys!

With the latest change, I'd also change my above command in BeyondCompare to "D:\PortableTools\video-compare\video-compare.exe -W "%f1" "%f2""

(-W in capital w is the CMD option for the next release, right?)

Yes, you got it right. I'd expect the new version to come out this week.

[pldavid2]

Another useful utility for launching
https://github.com/TetzkatLipHoka/VideoCompareGUI

[jonfryd]

Another useful utility for launching https://github.com/TetzkatLipHoka/VideoCompareGUI

Cool! Thanks for sharing, @pldavid2.