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Dev tools · October 14, 2026

Geneva, a Rust FFmpeg CLI alternative with HTML/CSS graphics

A command-line video editor. Edits are JSON documents; titles and graphics are HTML and CSS, drawn without a browser. One binary, MIT licensed.

Geneva, a Rust FFmpeg CLI alternative with HTML/CSS graphics launched on October 14, 2026 with 6 votes, #664 of 3,222 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

One binary for Linux (x64, arm64), macOS (Apple silicon) and Windows (x64). The codecs come from FFmpeg's libraries; the planner, compositor and layout engine are written in Rust. MIT licensed. Or download an archive from Releases . H.264 is encoded with the bundled OpenH264, or with x264 when it is installed on the system. Each command is turned into a JSON document and rendered. --show-timeline prints it. All commands: docs/cli.md . A name card over ten seconds of footage. The card is an HTML file; it plays the same in a browser. Frames with nothing drawn on them are copied from the source when it is H.264 and x264 is installed, and otherwise go from decoder to encoder without passing…from genevarender.com

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