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Server Configuration

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
ENCODR_MCP_ROOTNoBy default the server can read and write anywhere your user can. To confine all input/output paths to one directory tree, set this environment variable to the allowed root directory. Any path outside that root is rejected.

Instructions

Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.

This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.

Capabilities

Features and capabilities supported by this server

Protocol revision2025-11-25

CapabilityDetails
tools
{
  "listChanged": false
}
prompts
{
  "listChanged": false
}
resources
{
  "subscribe": false,
  "listChanged": false
}

Tools

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

NameDescription
probe_mediaB

Inspect a media file and return a compact summary of its format and streams.

list_codecsA

List the supported video/audio codecs and image formats with their quality defaults.

transcode_videoA

Transcode a video. Quality is CRF-based (lower crf = higher quality).

Codecs: h264 (default, universal), h265, av1 (best compression), vp9. Optionally downscale with scale_height (e.g. 1080) or change fps.

remux_videoB

Change a video's container (e.g. .mkv -> .mp4) with no re-encode. Lossless and fast.

transcode_audioC

Transcode audio. Codecs: opus (default), aac, mp3, flac (lossless), wav.

Set normalize=true for EBU R128 loudness normalization (-16 LUFS).

extract_audioB

Extract the audio track from a video losslessly (stream copy).

convert_imageC

Convert/resize an image. Formats: webp, avif, jpeg, png (lossless).

For webp/jpeg, quality is 0-100; for avif, quality is a CRF-like value.

thumbnailC

Grab a single high-quality frame from a video at timestamp at (HH:MM:SS).

burn_subtitlesC

Burn (hardcode) a subtitle file into the video. Audio is copied unchanged.

extract_streamA

Extract a single stream (by absolute index from probe_media) losslessly.

Prompts

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

NameDescription

No prompts

Resources

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

NameDescription

No resources

TDQS

B3.4/5.0

Scored across 10 tools

Disambiguation4/5

Each tool has a largely distinct action: probe vs. list, transcode vs. remux, audio vs. video. The only real overlap is extract_audio versus extract_stream (which can also pull an audio stream by index), and thumbnail vs. extract_stream for frame grabbing, but the descriptions make the intended boundaries clear enough.

Naming Consistency4/5

Nine of ten tools follow a clean snake_case verb_noun pattern (probe_media, transcode_video, extract_audio, convert_image, burn_subtitles). 'thumbnail' is the lone bare noun, a minor deviation from an otherwise predictable convention.

Tool Count5/5

Ten tools is well-scoped for a media encoding server, covering inspection, listing, video/audio transcoding, remuxing, extraction, image conversion, thumbnails, and subtitles without padding. Each tool maps to a concrete operation a user would need.

Completeness4/5

The core encode/convert lifecycle is well covered, including probe, codec discovery, transcode, remux, extract, and subtitle burn-in. Minor gaps exist around trimming/cutting to a time range, concatenating files, and extracting subtitle streams, but none are dead ends for typical workflows.

Maintenance

ActivityMaintained
ResponsivenessNo issues