[gentoo-user] Avidemux does not display dialogue boxes

[gentoo-user] Avidemux does not display dialogue boxes

[Andrew Lowe]

Hi all,
	I've just installed the video tool avidemux but when I load a video,
the video loads, but there is no sound. A Google search offered a remedy
which required opening the preferences dialogue box. I attempted to do
this, but low and behold, no dialogue box will open. Further
investigation reveals that File->Open, File->Save, File->Information and
more don't display their dialogue boxes.

	Is anyone familiar with this package and know why this is happening, no
dialogue boxes, and how to remedy the problem?

	Thoughts greatly appreciated,

		Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] Avidemux does not display dialogue boxes

[Peter Weilbacher]

On 2013-10-30 16:44, Andrew Lowe wrote:

> 	I've just installed the video tool avidemux but when I load a video,
> the video loads, but there is no sound. A Google search offered a 
> remedy
> which required opening the preferences dialogue box. I attempted to do
> this, but low and behold, no dialogue box will open. Further
> investigation reveals that File->Open, File->Save, File->Information 
> and
> more don't display their dialogue boxes.

I am not deeply familiar with it but I use it a lot, in version 
media-video/avidemux-2.5.6-r2, with the gtk interface. I have tried to 
also compile and use with the qt4 UI with less good results. I also 
found the 2.6.x version to be broken in several ways, but that was a few 
months ago. So although the 2.5.x version has security holes, I tend to 
not work on videos with unknown origin, so I am still using that.

Maybe this helps you,
    Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Avidemux does not display dialogue boxes

[Andrew Lowe]

On 10/31/2013 12:29 AM, Peter Weilbacher wrote:
> On 2013-10-30 16:44, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> 
>>     I've just installed the video tool avidemux but when I load a video,
>> the video loads, but there is no sound. A Google search offered a remedy
>> which required opening the preferences dialogue box. I attempted to do
>> this, but low and behold, no dialogue box will open. Further
>> investigation reveals that File->Open, File->Save, File->Information and
>> more don't display their dialogue boxes.
> 
> I am not deeply familiar with it but I use it a lot, in version
> media-video/avidemux-2.5.6-r2, with the gtk interface. I have tried to
> also compile and use with the qt4 UI with less good results. I also
> found the 2.6.x version to be broken in several ways, but that was a few
> months ago. So although the 2.5.x version has security holes, I tend to
> not work on videos with unknown origin, so I am still using that.
> 
> Maybe this helps you,
>    Peter.
> 
> 

	I'm using the QT4 interface so there could be something there. I'll
have to follow up on the avidemux forums.

	Thanks,
		Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] Avidemux does not display dialogue boxes

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 10/30/2013 04:44:02 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	I've just installed the video tool avidemux but when I load a  
> video,
> the video loads, but there is no sound. A Google search offered a  
> remedy
> which required opening the preferences dialogue box. I attempted to do
> this, but low and behold, no dialogue box will open. Further
> investigation reveals that File->Open, File->Save, File->Information  
> and
> more don't display their dialogue boxes.

Hi Andrew,
I'm using version 2.6.5-r1  avidemux3_qt4  on ~amd64
AFAIR the maintainer of avidemux has given up gtk support.

It works just fine,

Helmut.