MediaChef Recipes
All 17 recipes
MediaChef does not ask you to learn command-line switches. Every job is a card: drop a file, pick the card, press start. This is the whole catalogue exactly as it ships — what each recipe takes, what it gives back, and what you can type into the app's search box to find it.
Free and open source — read the code on GitHub All files and release notes
Speech, text and subtitles
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Transcribe
Transcribe audio to SRT subtitles
Writes timed SRT subtitles from speech locally (Whisper).
- Takes
- audio · video
- Gives
.srt- Settings
- Model Language
Also found by mp3 to srt, audio to srt, subtitles from audio, transcribe to subtitles, srt from audio
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Transcribe
Transcribe audio to text
Turns speech into plain text locally (Whisper).
- Takes
- audio · video
- Gives
.txt- Settings
- Model Language
Also found by mp3 to text, audio to text, transcribe audio, speech to text, audio to txt, change audio to text, turn speech into text
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Transcribe
Make SRT subtitles for a video
Listens to the video's audio and writes an SRT next to it (Whisper).
- Takes
- video
- Gives
.srt- Settings
- Model Language
Also found by video to srt, subtitles for video, generate subtitles, srt from video, subtitle a video
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Transcribe
Get text from a video
Writes down everything said in the video as plain text (Whisper).
- Takes
- video
- Gives
.txt- Settings
- Model Language
Also found by video to text, text from video, transcribe video, get text from video, mp4 to text, change video to text, video to subtitles text
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Transcribe
Transcribe audio to WebVTT
Writes WebVTT captions for web players from speech (Whisper).
- Takes
- audio · video
- Gives
.vtt- Settings
- Model Language
Also found by audio to vtt, webvtt subtitles, vtt from audio, transcribe to vtt, mp3 to vtt
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Transcribe
Translate speech to English subtitles
Any language in, timed English SRT out — one pass, locally (Whisper).
- Takes
- audio · video
- Gives
.srt- Settings
- Model Source language
Also found by translate subtitles to english, english subtitles from audio, translate to english srt, english srt from video
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Transcribe
Translate speech to English text
Any language in, English text out — one pass, locally (Whisper).
- Takes
- audio · video
- Gives
.txt- Settings
- Model Source language
Also found by translate audio to english, translate speech to english, audio translation to text, translate mp3 to english
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Transcribe
Transcribe audio to JSON with timings
Machine-readable transcript: segments with start and end times (Whisper).
- Takes
- audio · video
- Gives
.json- Settings
- Model Language
Also found by audio to json, json transcript, transcription with timestamps, transcript json, mp3 to json
Video
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Compress
Compress video (quality preset)
Re-encodes with H.264 at a chosen quality level.
- Takes
- video
- Gives
.mp4- Settings
- Quality (lower = better) — 23 / 28 / 33
Also found by compress video, reduce video size, make video smaller
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Convert video
Convert MP4 to MKV
Repackages MP4 into MKV without re-encoding.
- Takes
- video
- Gives
.mkv- Settings
- Nothing to set.
Also found by mp4 to mkv, remux mp4
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Cut
Trim video without re-encoding
Keeps a fragment between two timestamps, stream copy.
- Takes
- video
- Gives
.mp4- Settings
- Start (HH:MM:SS) End (empty = till the end)
Also found by cut video, trim clip, lossless cut
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GIF
Video to GIF
Converts a clip into an animated GIF.
- Takes
- video
- Gives
.gif- Settings
- FPS — 10 / 15 / 24 Width — 320 / 480 / 640
Also found by make gif, convert to gif, gif from video
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Audio in video
Remove audio from video
Copies the video stream, drops all audio.
- Takes
- video
- Gives
.mp4- Settings
- Nothing to set.
Also found by mute video, strip audio, no sound
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Size
Resize video to 720p
Scales to 720p height keeping aspect ratio.
- Takes
- video
- Gives
.mp4- Settings
- Nothing to set.
Also found by resize video, 720p, downscale
Audio
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Convert audio
Convert MP3 to WAV
Decodes MP3 into uncompressed WAV.
- Takes
- audio
- Gives
.wav- Settings
- Nothing to set.
Also found by mp3 to wav, audio to wav
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Extract
Extract audio to MP3
Saves the audio track of a video as MP3.
- Takes
- video
- Gives
.mp3- Settings
- Bitrate — 128k / 192k / 320k
Also found by video to mp3, rip audio from video, get sound from video, mp4 to mp3, change mp4 to mp3, convert video to audio
Advanced
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Advanced
Custom FFmpeg command
Run any FFmpeg arguments. {input} and {output} are substituted.
- Takes
- any file
- Gives
.mp4- Settings
- Arguments
Also found by custom command, raw ffmpeg, expert mode
Get the whole set
MediaChef 0.8.5 — free, open source, macOS · Windows · Linux.
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