On Monday 31 March 2003 05:46, Salman Khilji wrote:
Yes I suppose I am going to cause some flame....I guess I apologize for that....
Congratulations! It worked! Here's a flame!
Just getting so frustrated with all this GPL and Linux crap
So write some of your own crap. Please don't post whining rants here.
today that I HAVE to say this. I tried all GPL based crap today trying to convert DV video to divX video. None of the Linux tools worked for me. THe only one that did partially was mencoder (part of Mplayer). Nothing else worked including transcode (which requires rocket scientists to work with---and finally it would simply hang trying to do anything). I spent hours and hours with no luck. I also tried the GUI for transcode named dvd::rip which plainly SUCKED and generated a bunch of erros trying to run transcode. In the past I spent hours compiling transcode and mplayer from source and all the other million dependencies it requires.
I suggest you get writing some code then.
MEncoder has a bug which does not encode the video from the specified # of seconds into the input files. Yes you give it an option like -ss 140, but the output really does not start at 140 seconds.....rather its some random # that I could not figure out. As a result I start guessing a number like 100 seconds, encode 5 second video....then find out its not where I want...then I guess 125....still not right...then guess 155...not right and too far....so guess 145...you get the story. As a result it took hours trying to do something that would have taken minutes on Windows.
I got frustrated with it so much that I finally rebooted into Windows ME....downloaded some shareware...and got the task done in minutes! Simply click mouse button to select the beginning .... then click to select the end of the clip..... Press a button and voila!! its done. No compile from source crap.....not resolving dependencies crap. It just works.
Great! Enjoy that - and stop venting here.
All the GPL based crap for video processing is in very early stages and not usable. I am waiting for MainActor 5 and see how good that is. I suppose GPL does not compete in terms of quality with commercial based products.
Your supposition is wrong. That's why Linux and BSD servers are the backbone of the web. However, as anyone interested in video formats knows, that particular area is hedged about with legal restrictions and patents, making progress difficult. Sorry no-one gave you a free editing suite, though. Next thing we know, you'll be asked to pay for the food you eat too.
Authors of GPL based software start projects with greate enthusiasm....but then they get tired by version 0.3 or 0.4 and stop working on it. Then another person gets the idea....and instead of taking whats present to the next level starts another project from scratch and then by version 0.2 realizes that its a much bigger task than anticipated and stops working on it. As a result we get 10 products that all suck. I would rather see one video processing tool that works. I dont' want 10 that simply are crap compared to the Windows counterparts.
A few more days like today will simply have me go to BestBuy and get Windows XP and say good bye to Linux for good.
If you promise to stop venting and whining here we will probably get up a subscription to buy you a copy.
Salman
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