On Wednesday 17 June 2020 02.43:43 BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote: > I have other apps I use for conversion plus bash (bash is your friend) > scripts I have assimilated and modified. I was just curious because it > seemed very versatile. > > Perhaps I'm jump down the dependency rabbit hole and try to built it from > source. Seems development stopped in 2014. Not that I am against "old" software but in multimedia that often means problems. I was able to install from repositories on Stretch. Starting it from cli I tried a conversion. An empty file was created but I got this in konsole: we got an error, life is shit gst-stream-error-quark: Can not initialize x264 encoder. (8) gstx264enc.c(1690): gst_x264_enc_init_encoder (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstEncodeBin:encodebin0/GstX264Enc:x264enc0 we got an error, life is shit gst-stream-error-quark: Can not initialize x264 encoder. (8) gstx264enc.c(1690): gst_x264_enc_init_encoder (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstEncodeBin:encodebin0/GstX264Enc:x264enc0 we got an error, life is shit gst-stream-error-quark: Can not initialize x264 encoder. (8) gstx264enc.c(1690): gst_x264_enc_init_encoder (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstEncodeBin:encodebin0/GstX264Enc:x264enc0 we got an error, life is shit gst-stream-error-quark: Can not initialize x264 encoder. (8) gstx264enc.c(1690): gst_x264_enc_init_encoder (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstEncodeBin:encodebin0/GstX264Enc:x264enc0 we got an error, life is shit gst-stream-error-quark: Internal data stream error. (1) qtdemux.c(5850): gst_qtdemux_loop (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecoder/GstDecodeBin:decodebin2/GstQTDemux:qtdemux1: streaming stopped, reason not-negotiated (-4) we got an error, life is shit gst-stream-error-quark: Internal data stream error. (1) gstmultiqueue.c(2310): gst_multi_queue_sink_event (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecoder/GstDecodeBin:decodebin2/GstMultiQueue:multiqueue1: streaming stopped, reason not-negotiated (-4) So the problem is comming from gstreamer it seems. I use avidemux or handbrake for this sort of stuff. Thierry