Context Menu Media Tools

FFmpeg based tools that baked into context menu to compress, convert media files, delete, extract or convert sound, and look for detailed stats with ffprobe.

It was created for my personal use, but you may find it useful too.

Features

Audio Files (WAV, MP3, FLAC, AAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, WebM, Opus)

• Convert Audio - Convert to various formats (WAV, MP3, FLAC, AAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, Opus)

Images (JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, GIF, WebP, TGA, PSD)

• Convert Image - Convert to various formats (JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, GIF, WebP, TGA)

Video Files (MP4, AVI, MOV, MKV, WebM, M4V)

• Compress to MP4 / MP4+ / MP4++ - (High / Balanced / Low bitrate)
  • H.264, H.265, AV1 | + Nvidia GPU encoging
• Convert Video - Convert to other formats (MP4, AVI, MOV, MKV, WebM, M4V)
• Convert Audio - Convert all audio tracks (WAV, MP3, FLAC, AAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, Opus)
• Delete Sound - Remove audio track from video
• Extract Audio - Extract audio track (MP3, AAC, Opus, WAV, M4A, MKA)
• Make Frame Sequence - Create frame sequence (PNG, JPG, WebP)

Stats - View file information using ffprobe

Windows version has much less options because of it's context menu item limits. Only h265 [CPU], AV1[CPU] and AV1[GPU] presented

🐧 Installation Linux

Requirements

• KDE Plasma 6
• Dolphin file manager
• ffmpeg
• ffprobe

Install Dependencies

Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S ffmpeg

Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt install ffmpeg

Install Context Menu

1. Download ContextMenu_MediaTools_KDE6-Dolphin.sh
2. Run it in terminal:

chmod +x ./ContextMenu_MediaTools_KDE6.sh

./ContextMenu_MediaTools_KDE6.sh

To make it work restart Dolphin or log out and back in

How to uninstall

./ContextMenu_MediaTools_KDE6.sh uninstall

🪟 Installation Windows

Requirements

• ffmpeg
• ffprobe

Install Dependencies

1. Download ffmpeg build
2. Put ffmpeg.exe and ffprobe.exe in "windows" folder on system drive. Or setup ffmpeg PATH in environment variables by yourself.

Install Context Menu

1. Download ContextMenu_MediaTools_Windows.reg
2. Make a backup of your registry and then run the file

To make it work you need to reboot file explorer or your PC

How to uninstall

Download and run ContextMenu_MediaTools_Windows_Uninstall.reg

How It Works

Basicaly each menu item runs ffmpeg terminal command with pre-made settings. The terminal automatically closes after completion, except for the Stats command which keeps it open for you to review the information.

Troubleshooting: Linux

Menu doesn't appear

1. Restart Dolphin: killall dolphin && dolphin
2. Or log out and back in
3. Check that files are created in ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/
4. Update KDE cache: kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental

Commands don't work

1. Ensure ffmpeg is installed: ffmpeg -version
2. Check that konsole is installed: konsole --version

File permission errors

Reinstall the menu - the script automatically sets correct permissions.

Or set chmod +x ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/*.desktop by yourself

Localization

Linux version supports English, Russian, and Ukrainian languages. KDE automatically selects the appropriate language based on system settings.