Observed arrival · 2026-08-21
MediaChef, the offline media kitchen
A free, open-source desktop app for converting video and audio and transcribing speech on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
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Why it surfaced
MediaChef turns FFmpeg and Whisper tasks into recipe cards such as extracting MP3 audio, creating SRT subtitles, compressing video, and translating speech. It includes the engines, shows the underlying FFmpeg command, and keeps files on the user's computer rather than uploading them.
A free, open-source desktop app for converting video and audio and transcribing speech on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
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