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Bug 532426 - Transcode videos
Transcode videos
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: banshee
Classification: Other
Component: GStreamer
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: 2.x
Assigned To: Banshee Maintainers
Banshee Maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
: 578001 587163 588111 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 576709
 
 
Reported: 2008-05-09 23:51 UTC by marcosrdz
Modified: 2020-03-17 08:23 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description marcosrdz 2008-05-09 23:51:47 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
Comment 1 Nicolò Chieffo 2008-10-21 16:01:20 UTC
confirming for svn trunk
Comment 2 Nicolò Chieffo 2008-10-24 00:25:43 UTC
does someone know a gstreamer pipeline to convert videos for ipod??
Comment 3 Gabriel Burt 2009-06-02 22:35:27 UTC
*** Bug 578001 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 David Nielsen 2009-06-03 07:00:55 UTC
Since #578001 was duplicated please set this one to block #576709 which is a meta bug to track Sansa Fuze support improvements.
Comment 5 Alexander Kojevnikov 2009-06-28 01:15:45 UTC
*** Bug 587163 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Gabriel Burt 2009-07-08 20:13:35 UTC
*** Bug 588111 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 David Nielsen 2009-09-26 08:22:33 UTC
For the Fuze this project might be helpful determining the required transcoding options for making this work.

http://code.google.com/p/video4fuze/
Comment 8 roadSurfer 2010-02-09 10:45:04 UTC
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?
Comment 9 Benjamín Valero Espinosa 2010-02-09 11:44:18 UTC
Is the problem just on finding a Gstreamer line to do that or it is much more difficult?
Comment 10 Gabriel Burt 2010-02-09 17:40:32 UTC
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
Comment 12 maxie 2011-05-29 06:11:16 UTC
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
Comment 13 Tristan Schmelcher 2011-08-17 02:54:35 UTC
I'd be interesting in taking a crack at implementing this. Is anyone currently working on it?
Comment 14 David Nielsen 2011-08-17 11:48:02 UTC
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
Comment 15 Age Bosma (IRC: Forage) 2011-08-17 16:20:29 UTC
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.
Comment 16 André Klapper 2020-03-17 08:23:59 UTC
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.