Bug 399500

Summary:	Required "Transcode" software project no longer available
Product:	[Applications] k3b	Reporter:	Trent <trent>
Component:	general	Assignee:	k3b developers <k3b>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	michalm, trueg
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian stable
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434159
Latest Commit:	https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/k3b/-/commit/c65e9cfb04926c93cc5e112ec2e720dcc8161f5c	Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Trent 2018-10-07 21:28:08 UTC

When attempting to rip a DVD, a message appears with "K3b uses transcode to rip Video DVDs. Please make sure it it installed."



The Debian Stretch repo does not contain any such software.
This appears to be the last known official site of the software:

http://www.transcoding.org/

However, it seems to have been taken over by another, and not the original site for the project as can been seen from Archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20080328170330/http://www.transcoding.org:80/cgi-bin/transcode

Comment 1 Bug Janitor Service 2023-08-08 21:29:47 UTC

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/k3b/-/merge_requests/50

Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2023-08-29 21:50:33 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 414477, bug 434159, bug 441009, bug 274668

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

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

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