Let's face it. We've always been at a point in life where we needed it to convert one format to another. Maybe an online application only accepted .jpeg image format, and you had a .webp file.
For developers, it might not seem like a big deal. Maybe it's just a google search away for the required commandline options for ffmpeg. But when you switch to Windows, disaster strikes again. There's no good universal, open-source, GUI file converter that you can use. And you certainly don't want to upload your precious data to some random converter site.
That's why we decided to make a cross-platform electron app that serves as a beautiful GUI frontend to the ffmpeg and sharp libraries.
King converter aims to be the one stop app that can convert one format to another, whether it be an image, audio or video file. This app tries to keep the conversion process as simple as possible with the clean and simple GUI.
To build from source, you will need Node v12+ and npm.
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Run electron build
npm startOur usage guide can be found here.
We have used the following npm packages:
- For image conversion: sharp
- For audio/video conversion: ffmpeg-static-electron