[gentoo-user] qwinff: an excellent qt gui front-end for ffmpeg

[gentoo-user] qwinff: an excellent qt gui front-end for ffmpeg

[walt]

I heard about qwinff in a linux podcast and I'm happy I decided to try it.

It's not in portage or layman, but installing it is so trivial I'll describe
how I did it:

Download the source file here:
https://github.com/qwinff/qwinff/
by clicking the "Download ZIP" button on the right side of the web page.

Unzip the file in /usr/local/src (or wherever you keep source code). 
Assuming you're doing this as root:

#mkdir /usr/local/src  (if it doesn't exist)

#cd /usr/local/src

#unzip <wherever-you-put-it>/qwinff-master.zip (the source file you downloaded) 

#cd qwinff-master/

#make PREFIX=/usr/local USE_LIBNOTIFY=1     (read the file "INSTALL.txt")

#make PREFIX=/usr/local install

If all goes well you should be able to run qwinff from a bash prompt, or add
a custom menu item using the file "qwinff.desktop", which is installed by the
qwinff package.

If you see compile errors about undefined symbols or missing headers then you'll
need to emerge the appropriate qt packages from portage.  I got no compile errors
because I already had all the qt packages installed for other purposes.

(BTW this is not a kde app.  You need only the qt packages to run it on gnome
or any other DE (or on *no* DE if you're my evil twin Walter ;)

Ask if you need help. IMO it's worth your trouble if you convert video files
to other formats  :)

[gentoo-user] Re: qwinff: an excellent qt gui front-end for ffmpeg

[James]

walt <w41ter <at> gmail.com> writes:


> I heard about qwinff in a linux podcast and I'm happy I decided to try it.
> 
> It's not in portage or layman, but installing it is so trivial 
> I'll describe how I did it:

Well, if I can figure out how to "hack" together simple ebuilds,
so can you (if you dont know already).


The more folks putting software into ebuilds and making them avaialbe,
either github or overlay (sunshine) the better off we all are.

hth,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: qwinff: an excellent qt gui front-end for ffmpeg

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 03:04:46 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:

> The more folks putting software into ebuilds and making them avaialbe,
> either github or overlay (sunshine) the better off we all are.

Or post them to bgo where they will hopefully get picked up by a dev or a
layman overlay.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

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[gentoo-user] Re: qwinff: an excellent qt gui front-end for ffmpeg

[James]

Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:


> On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 03:04:46 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:

> > The more folks putting software into ebuilds and making them avaialbe,
> > either github or overlay (sunshine) the better off we all are.
 
> Or post them to bgo where they will hopefully get picked up by a dev or a
> layman overlay.


Since it is "QT" maybe. Here is mesos, I fixed: bgo 510912:: walt action ->
(from dev who put lxqt-0.8.0 together>

"When you'll have ebuild less or more prepared, you can ask for review on
sunrise irc channel: #gentoo-sunrise. Also you can ask for commit access to
the sunrise overlay: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Sunrise/How_to_commit

If you do not like sunrise overlay, I still recommend you ask there for
review, then I can help you with proxy-maintainment:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers "


From what I can discern, a group of forward-thinking devs actually want
the user community to "step-up" and start building the easier ebuilds
our distro needs to be inclusive with the thousands of packages that
other distros have.

POWer_tools maintainer :: dev_da_walt ?


It's kind of fun, hacking at ebuilds :: the devs  have just got to
put in a bit more work to give users the tools, examples and support
we need to "get er done", imho.

hth,
James