How to address the "Avidemux.AppImage" from the "Avidemux_Jobs"-Queue?

[thursdaychild]

Hi!

I came from Windows and switchte to Linux-Ubuntu (V18.04.1 LTS with Mate-desktop) last month. And that shall be with a "journey of no return". All is meanwhile running well, but using Avidemux makes me some trouble. I want to use the latest nightly-build of Avidemux, so I grabbed to the AppImage. This is running quite well, except one thing: I can't do batch-operatings.

So can anyone tell me, where I can find or what is to do, to use an "Avidemux-Jobs"-Program, which can address the AppImage for batch-operations?

Thanks in advance!

[eumagga0x2a]

If you wish to keep pace with the current Avidemux development, you should build Avidemux from source yourself which is almost trivial on Ubuntu.

[thursdaychild]

Thanks for the link! - Later I'll try to build Avidemux from source. But I suppose I will fail. Anyway, let's see....

I also have to report that the Avidemux-version from the repositories from Ubuntu is faulty in parts. Always when I do a batch-process with let's say about 15 tasks, about 3 to 4 will be not finished and cancelled. If I start a second run the faulty encoding-tasks (x264/MKV) are encoded correctly.

But the Avidemux-version is dated from august 2017 and labelled as "v2.7.1 v2". But in the repos they are marked as V2.6 . With the more actual repos, labelled as version "2.6" from october 2018 you can't do batch-processing. Something in the dependencies between the "avidemux_jobs" and the main-program is wrong.

[thursdaychild]

Thanks for the link! - Later I'll try to build Avidemux from source. But I suppose I will fail. Anyway, let's see....

Okay, I managed to build Avidemux from source now. Maybe later I'll upload the .deb-Files, so that anyone can install them without the time-consuming build-process.

[eumagga0x2a]

You might want to repeat the build after checking out the ffmpeg4x branch

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git pull
git checkout ffmpeg4x

It contains a number of important fixes the git master doesn't have yet + FFmpeg 4.1.

Please don't upload debs, the CPack generated debs are rubbish, helpful only to facilitate uninstall.

[thursdaychild]

If I type your installation-commands, I receive the following error-messages:

frankoz@ASUS-LAPTOP:~$ git pull
fatal: Kein Git-Repository (oder irgendeines der Elternverzeichnisse): .git
frankoz@ASUS-LAPTOP:~$ git checkout ffmpex4x
fatal: Kein Git-Repository (oder irgendeines der Elternverzeichnisse): .git

[eumagga0x2a]

You must change to the avidemux2 directory before executing these commands.

[thursdaychild]

Okay, thanks. I will check that later. - But when are these fixes and improvements concerning FFmpeg expected to be merged to the main-code?

[thursdaychild]

I think everything went right. Now "my" Avidemux works with the most advanced FFmpeg 4.1-libraries.
Thanks for all the help here.

[eumagga0x2a]

Glad to hear that.

For the ffmpeg4x branch to be merged into master, the build infrastructure for the ffmpeg4x branch must be created and proven working correctly first, so that a public Beta can be offered to wide audience.

[thursdaychild]

Yet another question: I tried to generate an AppImage of these source-files, using the command-line "sudo sh makeAppImage.sh", but at the end the build-process cancels with the following error-message:

** ALL DONE **
** The installable packages are in the debs folder **
** Creating AppImage file **
QT_HOME not set, cancelling

Where has that QT_HOME (-directory?) to be set?

[eumagga0x2a]

You can't create an appImage this way, it needs some special tools and the environment the script is made for (I can't create it either :-D). Why would you want one?

By the way, you even don't need to install Avidemux to be able to run it, have a look at https://github.com/mean00/avidemux2/blob/ffmpeg4x/run_avidemux_template.sh

Caveat: AFAIR the Jobs GUI is not yet compatible with portable mode.

[thursdaychild]

After 2 months I tried to recompile Avidemux with the above mentioned instructions, but now I receive the following error during the compiling-process:

E: Das Depot »http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid InRelease« ist nicht signiert.
N: Eine Aktualisierung von solch einem Depot kann nicht auf eine sichere Art durchgeführt werden, daher ist es standardmäßig deaktiviert.
N: Weitere Details zur Erzeugung von Paketdepots sowie zu deren Benutzerkonfiguration finden Sie in der Handbuchseite apt-secure(.
The installation at least of some of the build dependencies failed. Aborting.
user@ASUS-LAPTOP:~/avidemux2$

Can anyone give me a hint, what to do? - OS-base is now Ubuntu Mate V18.04.2.
@ eumagga0x2a, I know you speak german. So I don't have to translate it.

Edit:
Okay, forget it, it's fixed. - There was something wrong in my program-sources.

[eumagga0x2a]

There should not be any need to run the script to install build dependencies more than just once, so that errors / obsolete / foreign entries in sources.list should not have mattered.