Comments on: Transmageddon continued

By: Vince Delmonte

Vince Delmonte — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:58:21 +0000

Hey, cool tips. Perhaps I’ll buy a glass of beer to the man from that chat who told me to visit your blog

By: uraeus

uraeus — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:29:23 +0000

No, never written a guest post for anyone else

By: How to Get Your Ex Back

How to Get Your Ex Back — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:43:29 +0000

The style of writing is quite familiar . Did you write guest posts for other bloggers?

By: Free Dsi

Free Dsi — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:36:03 +0000

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By: David Love

David Love — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:04:56 +0000

@uraeus I was thinking about tackling the h264/mp3 in an MP4 container first anyways. Seems to be a “pretty much works anywhere” format these days. And it has been a while since I looked at MPEG TS support in gstreamer (and I don’t remember it fondly). Haven’t had the time I wanted to work on this, but seeing as how I don’t have to work tomorrow it’ll be “HackingTime!” Well, minus parachute pants and all. Besides, video encoding stuff is WAY more fun than dealing with federal changes in financial aid stuff…

By: uraeus

uraeus — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:30:47 +0000

@Anonymous: well that is true for a lot of codecs available in open source

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:16:21 +0000

Another reason for the common lack of AMR support: perceived patent danger.

By: uraeus

uraeus — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:08:31 +0000

@Sam: yeah, if you look at the TODO list linked from the homepage you see that removing the hardcoded plugin names is on there. Once that is done the ‘easy codec install’ should kick in trying to search all package repositories you have enabled for plugins to support the codecs in question. Once that search is done (and fail) I do agree that the option should be greyed out, at least for the current session. Be aware that this is my first forage into actual coding so there is a lot of stuff in the code far from optimal yet, but I am a firm believer that it is better to do this incrementally than trying to fix ‘everything’ in one go, both to have something that *might* be working for people as I go forward, but also to avoid get frustrated and not look at the issue for a long while

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:31:59 +0000

Am I missing something here, or does the application happily pass data to be encoded even if the target encoder isn’t available? I tried a few options and noticed the errors of this type on the console:

gst.ElementNotFoundError: x264enc
gst.ElementNotFoundError: faac
gst.ElementNotFoundError: mpeg2enc

If the encoder isn’t present then the option should be grayed out. And if the encoding process fails to initialize correctly then the front-end should catch it and cancel the operation… unless an AVI containing only an MP3 audio track and no video is what you wanted

By: Tristan

Tristan — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:15:17 +0000

Thanks, but I’m not sure you should be looking at my code for the best way of doing things!

I actually spent a while working on a general purpose “big brother” to OggConvert, with mostly the same goals as Transmageddon, but didn’t get as far as actually getting something worth releasing. I’m currently backpacking around Australia (which is why OggConvert hasn’t been updated in a few months), but I’ll be watching closely to see how this develops