Yamb (Yet Another MP4Box GUI)

[Island Boy]

http://yamb.unite-video.com/download.html

[Features]

• Yamb is the acronym of Yet Another Mp4Box UI. In other words, this is a new graphical interface for mp4box using, a tool based on command lines which is a part of GPAC Framework. This GUI is mainly dedicated to Windows OS.

• Yamb is able to create, split and join mp4 or 3gp files containing principally
- video streams with m4v, cmp, h264, 264, h263, 263 as input format or from avi, mpg, mpeg, vob, mp4, mov, ogg, qcp and 3gp files.
- audio streams with aac, amr, awb, evc, mp3, msv, vorbis as input format or from avi, mpg, mpeg, vob (mp2 only), mp4 and 3gp files.
- subtitles with srt (SubRip), ttxt (GPAC), sub (MicroDVD), idx/sub (VobSub) and xml (QuickTime TeXML) as input formats.
- chapters from text format (OGM or GPAC).

• Yamb can also extract some streams. In this case, this GUI is able to recover - a Video or Audio stream from avi files.
- a stream or an Audio/Vidéo track in a raw format.
- a stream or an Audio/Vidéo track in a new mp4 file.
- a visual track in avi file.
- subtitles as srt or ttxt output format.
- chapters as OGM text format.

• Yamb can retrieve some informations about different streams especially for mp4, m4v, mov, cmp, ogg, qcp and 3gp files. You can get this whether by a global way or for each tracks available.
• Yamb is also able to convert srt to ttxt subtitles format or ttxt to srt.
• Yamb has some other additional settings concerning language, tracks names, Pixels Aspect Ratio, etc...
• Yamb supports Unicode/UTF-8 completely.
• Yamb supports also tagging with mp4tags from "mpeg4ip tools" and "AtomicParsley" a very complete tagger dedicated to iTunes.

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How to extract: Download "Yamb-2.0.0.8 with installer" then use "Universal Extractor" to unpack.
Delete [NSIS].nsi & $PLUGINSDIR folder.
Run then exit Yamb.exe to create the Yamb.cfg file.
Use notepad to open Yamb.cfg.

Change the line

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MP4Box_path=c:\documents and settings\island boy\desktop\yambinstaller-2.0.0.8\mp4box.exe

to

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MP4Box_path=mp4box.exe

then save

[Island Boy]

if Yamb gives errors try replaceing MP4Box.exe with an older Version.
http://kurtnoise.free.fr/mp4tools

p.s.

MP4Box is a MP4 multiplexer. It can import MPEG-4 video, DivX, XviD, 3ivx, h264 etc, audio streams and subtitles into the .mp4 container. The end result is a compliant MP4 stream. It can also extract streams from a .mp4. MP4Box is a command line tool, but can be used with graphical user interfaces such as YAMB.

[Island Boy]

Found this comment on videohelp.com
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/YAMB

overflonium said...

YAMB will frustrate the novice.

For example, when the log file states "Tagger is missing," all the user need do is click settings icon. Select the MP4Box tree, then tick the box "Use it also as a tagger."

Even though YAMB has been written to use MP4Box exclusively, and MP4Box.exe is present, a cryptic error message provides no help.

Saddest of all is the instruction "Wait and relax... This process can take a while" that is displayed while the program consumes no cycles and just sits there (because MP4Box has not been set as the tagger).

Good to know.