[gentoo-user] transkode is gone

[gentoo-user] transkode is gone

[Alex Schuster]

Hi there!

media-sound/transkode [*] was a nice KDE3 application for converting 
various audio formats into others. It's gone now, and no, it's not in the 
kde-sunset overlay. I cannot even find any information on why it was 
removed.
Building it manually does not work at all with gcc-4.3, and with lower 
versions I get somewhat further, but building does not finish, too.

Any ideas why it's gone? Or where to look to find this out?

And: Do you know about a replacement which takes a bunch of audio files 
and converts them info another format? I can do this on the command line, 
but transkode already has some presets for common formats and was just 
easy to use, no need to find out all needed options for lame etc.

	Wonko

[*] http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=37669

Re: [gentoo-user] transkode is gone

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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Am Freitag, 22. Januar 2010 schrieb Alex Schuster:
> Hi there!
>
> media-sound/transkode [*] was a nice KDE3 application for converting
> various audio formats into others. It's gone now, and no, it's not in the
> kde-sunset overlay. I cannot even find any information on why it was
> removed.
> Building it manually does not work at all with gcc-4.3, and with lower
> versions I get somewhat further, but building does not finish, too.
>
> Any ideas why it's gone? Or where to look to find this out?
>
> And: Do you know about a replacement which takes a bunch of audio files
> and converts them info another format? I can do this on the command line,
> but transkode already has some presets for common formats and was just
> easy to use, no need to find out all needed options for lame etc.

I've used SoundKonverter¹ for this task in the past. It is also not available 
as a KDE3 app anymore, but lives on in KDE4.

¹ http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/soundKonverter?content=29024
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Re: [gentoo-user] transkode is gone

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Freitag 22 Januar 2010 15:19:14 schrieb Alex Schuster:

> Building it manually does not work at all with gcc-4.3, and with lower 
> versions I get somewhat further, but building does not finish, too.
> 
> Any ideas why it's gone? Or where to look to find this out?

Is "It doesn't even build." not enough?

Bye...

	Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] transkode is gone

[Alex Schuster]

Dirk Heinrichs writes:

> Am Freitag 22 Januar 2010 15:19:14 schrieb Alex Schuster:
> > Building it manually does not work at all with gcc-4.3, and with
> > lower versions I get somewhat further, but building does not finish,
> > too.
> >
> > Any ideas why it's gone? Or where to look to find this out?
> 
> Is "It doesn't even build." not enough?

Well, in two months ago it built just fine (I already had gcc-4.3 then), I 
assumed the ebuild did some patching of the original source to make it 
build. But maybe it's that other things changed which transkode depends 
on. But I could not find any bug report about this, so I'm wondering. And 
I really liked the utility.

	Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] transkode is gone

[Alex Schuster]

Frank Steinmetzger writes:

> Am Freitag, 22. Januar 2010 schrieb Alex Schuster:

> > And: Do you know about a replacement which takes a bunch of audio
> > files and converts them info another format? I can do this on the
> > command line, but transkode already has some presets for common
> > formats and was just easy to use, no need to find out all needed
> > options for lame etc.
> 
> I've used SoundKonverter¹ for this task in the past. It is also not
> available as a KDE3 app anymore, but lives on in KDE4.

This looks good, and I see I already have it installed.

Alas, it does no work at all. The proceed button does nothing. Hm, when 
starting it again, it suddenly works. But whatever audio file I select, 
its file type is unknown to soundKonverter. The settings dialog shows no 
backends at all. Well, maybe an older version than 1.0.0_alpha1 works, I 
will give this a try.

Thanks,

	Wonko