hi!

Anno domini 2019 Tue, 14 May 19:10:40 -0400
 E. Liddell scripsit:
> On Mon, 13 May 2019 09:29:57 +0200
> "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...> wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I just found "transcode" to be missing from devuan beowulf. Aparently it was missing in ascii, also, but I just have not noticed. Is there a drop-in replacement?
> 
> Transcode's upstream has been dead for a long time, so it isn't surprising that your distro no 
> longer packages it.  If you want to build it yourself, the source and patches that will allow it
> to compile against modern ffmpeg are available from Gentoo:
> 
> https://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/transcode-1.1.7.tar.bz2
> https://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/transcode-1.1.7-patchset.tar.bz2
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gentoo/gentoo/master/media-video/transcode/files/ffmpeg4.patch
> 
> Unless someone has done work on k3b that I'm not aware of, I doubt there's a drop-in 
> replacement, although ffmpeg and mplayer's mencoder, among others, should cover the 
> same functionality.
> 
> Do we need to adopt this lib (or did we do so already and I didn't notice?)
> 
> E. Liddell

I did not realise it was gone for that long. Well, maybe I come up with a wrapper for mplayer or ffmpeg.

Nik

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