transKode

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About:
KDE/Qt based frontend for varios audio transcoding tools.

Supported input formats:
* aac, ape/mac, bonk, flac, la, mp2, mp3, mp4/m4a/m4b, mpc/mpp/mp+, ofr, ogg, pac, shn, spx, tta, wav, wv
* other media formats decodable by ffmpeg, mplayer, xine or gstreamer (mp1, wma, ra/ram, ac3, dts, mka, asf, avi, mpg/mpeg, wmv, qt/mov, rv/rm/rmvb, flv, 3gp, vob...)

Supported output formats:
* aac, ape/mac, bonk, flac, la, mp2, mp3, mp4/m4a/m4b, mpc/mpp/mp+, ofr, ogg, pac, shn, spx, tta, wav, wv
* other audio formats encodable by ffmpeg or gstreamer (ac3, wma, asf...)

Required dependencies:
* amaroK >= 1.3 (Amarok script) (http://amarok.kde.org/)
* TagLib >= 1.4 (http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html)

Optional dependencies:
* Bonk Audio (http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/bonk)
* FAAC/FAAD (http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac/)
* FFmpeg (http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/)
* FLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net)
* GStreamer (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/)
* LAME (http://lame.sourceforge.net)
* LPAC (http://www.nue.tu-berlin.de/wer/liebchen/lpac.html)
* Lossless Audio (http://www.lossless-audio.com/)
* Monkey's Audio Port (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-port/)
* MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu)
* Musepack (http://musepack.net)
* OGG Vorbis (http://www.vorbis.com)
* OptimFROG (http://www.losslessaudio.org/)
* Shorten (http://www.hornig.net/shorten/)
* Speex (http://www.speex.org/)
* Streamripper (http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/)
* True Audio (http://www.true-audio.com)
* TwoLAME (http://www.twolame.org/)
* WavPack (http://www.wavpack.com/)
* xine (http://xinehq.de/) + xineadump (http://sourceforge.net/projects/transkode)

Note that you don't need all of this programs to use transKode. Specifically,
you may omit most decoders if you have ffmpeg, mplayer, xine or gstreamer
installed, as they can decode most formats on their own (also, ffmpeg and
gstreamer can be used to encode most common formats).
Last changelog:

13 years ago

Version 0.7:
- Fix: bug preventing Amarok TTMD to finish if there was a transcoding error
- Fix: decoding/encoding processes priority setting was not correctly applied

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RaraRasputin

9 years ago

Hi, are there any plans to port transkode to kde4?

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Paulus1

10 years ago

When configure finished, I run make, but I get this erorr message:

processhandler.cpp:149: error: '::system' has not been declared

What can I do with it?

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lambda512

10 years ago

Traskode frecuently crashes sending SIGABRT.

The program outputs:
transkode: xcb_io.c:242: process_responses: La declaración `(((long) (dpy->last_request_read) - (long) (dpy->request)) <= 0)' no se cumple.

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lambda512

10 years ago

If I close the window (leaving it on the system tray) while transkoding, it doesn't hangs.

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Guilo19

10 years ago

I confirm that the above tweak is needed for the program to compile.

Thanks

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Shirakawasuna

10 years ago

Hey, running archlinux (w/ gcc 4.3.1) this app doesn't compile without a little tweaking: src/common/commondefs.h needs #include <cstdlib> as of 4.3.1, I think.

Thanks for the *very* handy frontend! :)

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mhataj

10 years ago

as transkode crashes regularly, it'd be nice to have a projectlist that doesn't disappear. saving the list after each transcode somwhere would be very nice.
so a script could monitor the process.
my error-script in my last message has nothing to do with compiz - it's interprocess-message that kills transkode and my steady problem here.

thanks for this great app, saved my fingermuscles renaming some hundred files

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mhataj

10 years ago

transkode: ../../src/xcb_lock.c:33: _XCBUnlockDisplay: Assertion `xcb_get_request_sent(dpy->xcb->connection) == dpy->request' failed.
KCrash: Application 'transkode' crashing...


when something is touching the window (compiz-screensaver flying windows), transkode crashes.

thanks for this nice piece of software

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herrschneiderm

10 years ago

Hi,

I have a list of 800 files to transfer to my media device. Most of them are flac that need to be converted. After processing a certain amount of files, transKode crashes, no matter if encoding to ogg or mp3. I have several logs and dumps to provide. Please tell me where to send them.

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michelinux

11 years ago

Hi, trying to set which entries must stay in the context menu, Transkode will still keep the default ones, and the checkbox beside "Place entry in the context menu" will go back to the initial status just after I click on the Apply button.
Any suggestion about how to solve this?
Thanks a lot.
Michele

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attendant

11 years ago

to make changes to profiles you first have to press the "save profile" button and then apply the configuration. judging by how many people are (initially) confused by this, i'm guessing this isn't very intuitive at all... (i'll try to make this behave in a more reasonable way for the next version)

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ilj

11 years ago

This is hands down one of the best no nonsense, easy to use sound converter applications for KDE around.

I love it.

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AsteriskPDX

11 years ago

Has anyone seen and resolved this issue. When I transkode a file, the tag information is lost and the result is stored as Unknown_Artist...

Here is the transkode log output:

[script] transcode request received from Amarok
[script] profile: mp3 - standard
[script] file: /home/aambuehl/Audio/Cheb i Sabbah/Krishna Lila/01 Narajanma Band
age.m4a
[script] job enqueued in main worker thread
[script] transcoding started
[script] output: /home/aambuehl/Unknown_Artist/Xxxx - Unknown_Album/Xx - Unknown
_Title_2.mp3
[script] decoding /home/aambuehl/Audio/Cheb i Sabbah/Krishna Lila/01 Narajanma B andage.m4a to /tmp/transkodejob-137532720.wav
[script] process args: ffmpeg:-vn:-i:/home/aambuehl/Audio/Cheb i Sabbah/Krishna Lila/01 Narajanma Bandage.m4a:-y:-acodec:pcm_s16le:-f:wav:/tmp/transkodejob-1375 32720.wav
[script] decoding process started
[script] process deleted
[script] decoding process exited with error (1)
[script] process args: /usr/bin/mplayer:/home/aambuehl/Audio/Cheb i Sabbah/Krish na Lila/01 Narajanma Bandage.m4a:-vo:null:-ao:pcm:file=/tmp/transkodejob-1375327 20.wav
[script] decoding process started
[script] process deleted
[script] decoding process finished successfully
[script] encoding /tmp/transkodejob-137532720.wav to /home/aambuehl/Unknown_Arti st/Xxxx - Unknown_Album/Xx - Unknown_Title_2.mp3
[script] process args: /usr/bin/lame:--nohist:--preset:standard:--ignore-tag-err ors:--add-id3v2:/tmp/transkodejob-137532720.wav:/home/aambuehl/Unknown_Artist/Xx xx - Unknown_Album/Xx - Unknown_Title_2.mp3
[script] encoding process started
[script] encoding process finished successfully
[script] transcoding finished succesfully

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attendant

11 years ago

you're probably ussing an older version. support for reading metadata from mp4 (and other formats) was added in 0.7beta.

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AsteriskPDX

11 years ago

No, I double checked and I have 0.7beta. I guess I will try 0.7.

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attendant

11 years ago

sorry, though i was correct about taglib plugins being added in 0.7beta (code taken from amarok), i've just reviewed the svn log and the plugins for m4a and wma were actually removed because they weren't working correctly. i'll see if i can bring them back. btw, can amarok read and/or write the metadata for those files?

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AsteriskPDX

11 years ago

Any tips on where to look to re-enable/improve the tag handling?

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AsteriskPDX

11 years ago

Any hope of a new release sometime soon?

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attendant

11 years ago

don't count on it...
the plan is to port transkode to qt4/kde4 for the next release, but i don't know when that'll be.

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AsteriskPDX

11 years ago

I switched to 0.7 and same problem.

Amarok is able to display the tag information but transkode goes to Unknown.

I'm digging around the src to see if I can locate the tag code but I'm not sure where to even start.

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mapi

11 years ago

Mandriva 2008.0 i686 rpm here:

http://mandriva.99k.org/

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Zibi1981

11 years ago

Quote:Error: 403 Forbidden

:-(

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fsateler

11 years ago

IT would be nice if transkode could (when transkoding, of course), use a named pipe instead of an intermediary file. This speeds up the process significantly (because of the eliminated i/o time), and reduces the space requirements (because there is never complete wav file in the middle).

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attendant

11 years ago

i don't think i can make encoders write to a named pipe unless they can output to stdout (and not all of them can do it). is there another way i'm missing?

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fsateler

11 years ago

I think you are confusing (normal) pipes with named pipes. You can create a "file" with mkfifo, and use it as a named pipe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_pipe

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13 years ago

Version 0.7:
- Fix: bug preventing Amarok TTMD to finish if there was a transcoding error
- Fix: decoding/encoding processes priority setting was not correctly applied

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