Beiträge von Vouk

  • VoukoderPro - Free for all?

    Thank you all for participating and sharing your opinions and suggestions in this topic.

    Zitat von Howard Vigorita

    Why not solicit financial support from the commercial NLE companies who are benefiting financially from the added value your Pro plugin might add to their platforms?

    Companies are currently behaving completely different in supporting me and Voukoder. My contact to the VEGAS Pro Team is actually quite good, and I even get free licenses for every new version of VEGAS Pro. Talking with Adobe is good, they did reply to my questions and were helpful in the past. And BlackMagic DaVinci Resolve ... they didn't even reply to my questions in their forums. So asking them for money is not an option in my opinion.

    Zitat von Kleinrotti

    Maybe a payment plan for companies which have more than a specific amount of employees?

    Zitat von kalamazandy

    I'm not a huge fan of the idea of costs based on total employees of a company, or even total revenue, because that creates huge limitations for people who work at a large place who's primary business isn't related to the software they are doing.

    I feel the same. I'd rather like something simple and clear. And not all companies would like to share their revenues and other company details. And even if they do - How am I supposed to verify that information?

    Zitat von rsmith02

    I think paying to unlock full features is reasonable

    Right, I think this would be the best solution.

    So my current idea on this is:

    • VoukoderPro "unregistered"
      • About the same features that you have with the current Voukoder
      • I still want private/home/small content creators to be able to simply encoder their videos for free
      • No water mark, time limit, frame limit or such crap
      • You can try the full version for like 14 or 30 days (not sure yet)
    • VoukoderPro "registered"
      • Full Feature set and all the exciting new stuff (I have so many ideas)
    • Voukoder
      • As it currently is
      • No further development as soon as VoukoderPro gets released

    I'd like to give users flexible options like:

    • Subscription model
      • Monthly low price (You'll always get the latest version with all features)
      • Software stops working if you cancel your subscription
    • Fixed price (classic model)
      • Classic one time payment
      • Just for one major version number (Updates for this major version number are included)
      • Release cycle will be one year
      • This software version continues to work for youeven if there are new versions

    Making VoukoderPro (partly) commercial would also have some significant implications:

    • Licensing
      • I need a monetization provider
        • Accepting payments worldwide
      • I'd have to add license verification logic
        • Maybe there are LaaS provider platforms like Steam for Apps, Windows Store, etc?
    • It can't be GPL / OpenSource anymore
      • FFmpeg needs to be compiled as separate LGPL libraries
      • GPL parts like x264, x265 can't be included
        • Or I have to buy a commercial license for both (Quite expensive - I've heard about min. 10k EUR for x264 alone)
        • Or somehow work with x264.exe in a separate process
    • Old financing stuff
      • Website ads will be removed
      • Patreon will be removed
      • The registered app will not contain any asking for payments
      • I might keep one-time payment services like PayPal or ko-fi for people want to show their appreciation for the free version
    • FFmpeg
      • If this works out I'd even like to donate a share to the FFmpeg guys (and other free projects I'm using). Without their amazing work Voukoder and VoukoderPro wouldn't be possible.

    All the above are my current thoughts. Final decisions might be different.

  • Voukoder 12.2

    Voukoder 12.2

    Make sure you are using the latest connector for your application(s). For using NVENC (SDK 12) encoders driver version 522.25 or later is required.

    Fixes / Changes

    • Encoders
    • libx265: Presets updated (iAvoe)

    AMD AMFh264, hevc: Set a proper default value for constant quantizer (22)av1: Set a proper default value for constant quantizer (110)

    Credits

    Thanks to my all supporters by either Ko-fi, PayPal, Patreon or BTC (33wJ6Jg3KbZA4ZMJMQBFMh7jxWFAnad1Lp). Also thanks alot to the translators. Special thanks to AMD for providing support with testing.

    Top Patrons

    Gronkh, Todd Scarbrough, Schauerland, Michael wooldridge, Chris Woods

  • VoukoderPro - Free for all?

    When I posted the "Take a look into the future of voukoder" tweet on twitter yesterday a voukoder user asked me "Is the 'Pro' part implying pay2use?". To make it clear:

    • No, I don't want everyone have to pay to use the app
    • I also don't want to provide a limited feature set that makes it impossible to export anything without paying a fee to get you the functionality you need to export a simple video.

    But currently there are 56000 active users/month using voukoder and we have exactly 16 supporters on patreon (Big shoutout to you, guys!!), but unfortuantely that's not enough for a living.

    So there is the question: Is there a better, proper and fair way to finance all of this? I might not be able to have a regular day job and do all the voukoder work in my spare time / weekends / holidays in the future. I'd like to hand this question over to you - the voukoder users: Do you have a realistic idea or suggestion on how this could be financed?

    Edit: I'll watch this thread for a while and collect ideas and opinions before posting a reply.