GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 532426
Transcode videos
Last modified: 2020-03-17 08:23:59 UTC
I own an iPod Nano 8GB BLack 3rd gen, I was attempting to import a video but Banshee added the file right away instead of converting it first to MP4 and resizing it to the proper screen's width and height
confirming for svn trunk
does someone know a gstreamer pipeline to convert videos for ipod??
*** Bug 578001 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Since #578001 was duplicated please set this one to block #576709 which is a meta bug to track Sansa Fuze support improvements.
*** Bug 587163 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 588111 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
For the Fuze this project might be helpful determining the required transcoding options for making this work. http://code.google.com/p/video4fuze/
I have a Sansa e280v1 running Rockbox 3.5 and when trying to sync video podcasts, Banshee dropped the AVIs straight over without transcoding them to mpeg2. Is there any way for me to configure Banshee to either do the transcoding or to call a script that will do it?
Is the problem just on finding a Gstreamer line to do that or it is much more difficult?
Three things need to happen to support this: 1) the libbanshee/banshee-transcoder* GStreamer pipeline would need to be modified probably 2) 'profiles' for converting between video formats would have to be added to data/audio-profiles (which should be renamed) 3) AddTrackAndIncrementCount in src/Dap/Banshee.Dap/Banshee.Dap/DapSource.cs needs to be changed to not blacklist videos from being transcoded
Here's Songbird's video transcoder: http://timeline.songbirdnest.com/client/browser/trunk/components/mediacore/gstreamer/src/sbGStreamerVideoTranscode.cpp
how about the option of transcoding turning it of or on! i no longer can use banchee on my desktop, to store videos on my ipod, to watch later on my laptop. now i have to copy them manually over
I'd be interesting in taking a crack at implementing this. Is anyone currently working on it?
Nobody is currently working on this so any progress you can provide would be wonderful. One proviso though, Banshee is being ported to GStreamer# so you might best invest time working on that branch for such a project. In the GST# branch video playback as I understand it does not work yet but it is the future(tm). http://git.gnome.org/browse/banshee/log/?h=gst%23
Bug #638602 could be considered related to this one. No videos at all are considered suitable for an Apple device at the moment. FYI: I'm currently working on libgpod to have it provide a list of supported video formats for each Apple device. This would at least provide Banshee with a way to determine if a video for an Apple device needs to be transcoded before transferral. Banshee will need a way to query gstreamer for the video's specs (codec, profile, profile level, maximum average bit rate, width, height, maximum pixels p/s, using B-frames) for this to work.
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.