Bug 274668

Summary: Please move away from transcode, as the project is dead.
Product: [Applications] k3b Reporter: Paolo Pedroni <paolo.pedroni>
Component: Video DVDAssignee: k3b developers <k3b>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: adaptee, johu, jsvrp.gw, kensington, trueg
Priority: NOR    
Version: 2.0.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434159
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Paolo Pedroni 2011-06-01 11:24:48 UTC
Version:           2.0.2 (using KDE 4.6.3) 
OS:                Linux

It would be nice if k3b moved away from requiring transcode for encoding DVDs, as the upstream project is mostly dead. I'm not really sure what can be used instead, but I guess ffmpeg/libav can do mostly everything transcode can. I sadly do not have the coding skill to help, but it's a move that should be considered.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Comment 1 jsvrp.gw 2013-01-16 12:30:07 UTC
I agree. Also see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/k3b/+bug/1099201. There are errors/bugs related to transcode.
Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2023-08-08 21:29:51 UTC
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/k3b/-/merge_requests/50
Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2023-08-29 21:50:41 UTC
Git commit c65e9cfb04926c93cc5e112ec2e720dcc8161f5c by Albert Astals Cid, on behalf of Andreas Sturmlechner.
Committed on 29/08/2023 at 23:46.
Pushed by aacid into branch 'master'.

Revert "Keep transcode until a replacement is implemented."

No one implemented a replacement after more than 6 years.
Make sure users are not presented with a completely broken option.

This reverts commit f7d385a40cc062fa4db46c165f82f437dea82c58.
Related: bug 317797, bug 383931, bug 399500, bug 414477, bug 434159, bug 441009

Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>

M  +3    -0    libk3b/core/k3bdefaultexternalprograms.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/k3b/-/commit/c65e9cfb04926c93cc5e112ec2e720dcc8161f5c