2.8.2 default output directory

[blazini36]

I just re-did my Manjaro install as I've had some odd issues in the past since the previous setup was Manjaro-gnome and I use alot of KDE stuff so I just went with Manjaro-KDE, Plasma this time. I installed the Avidemux-qt6-git package from the AUR repo and it's fine except I can't figure out how to get the old behavior of the default output directory back. I guess it just defaulted to the last used output directory since I don't remember doing anything and it always just chose the same output directory I always use. Now it always defaults to the input directory and I don't see anyway to change that. Preferences just has "default to the directory of last read file for saving", which sounds like the input directory which is what I don't want but it doesn't seem to matter. Anyway to get it back to the old behavior?

[eumagga0x2a]

Does an Avidemux build off the current git master (or the ffmpeg7x branch which should be merged soon if no new grave problems emerge) exhibit the same issue? I cannot reproduce it at least on GNOME, at least with qgnomeplatform* packages removed (known to break file dialogs).

Do the values of use_last_read_dir_as_target and lastdir_write within lastfiles in ~/.config/avidemux6/config3 match the desired ones?

In general, I would recommend going back to Qt5 for Avidemux for now as Qt6 > 6.3.0 has broken at least OpenGL display code (OpenGL filters still work) and I don't have an idea for a fix ATM.

[blazini36]

It pulls from this repo https://github.com/mean00/avidemux2.git then grabs various patches.

"use_last_read_dir_as_target" : false,

"lastdir_write" : is correct, last output file was to ~/Videos which is where I always want it to output.

I did have issues with Avidemux on gnome which went away at some point, probably when I removed qgnomeplatform but I had alot of issues with other Qt apps, randomly with gnome. Like I use Dolphin file manager which eventually broke on the gnome install.

I'll switch to the Qt5 git version. I usually don't have issues with the non-git versions but last I checked they were missing hardware accelerated filters

[blazini36]

I installed the qt5 git version and it went back to working as before so I suppose there is something with Qt6