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lisamelton / video_transcoding

Tools to transcode, inspect and convert videos.
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Does not work on current Debian #215

Closed ghost closed 6 years ago

ghost commented 6 years ago

transcode-video "VIDEO_TS" HandBrakeCLI: unrecognized option '--auto-anamorphic'

lisamelton commented 6 years ago

@hagabla As near as I can tell from the information you provided, the version of HandBrakeCLI you have installed is older than 1.0.0, which is currently the minimum requirement for using transcode-video. You need to upgrade to HandBrakeCLI version 1.0.0 or later. I assume that's possible on a Debian Linux distribution?

ghost commented 6 years ago

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/handbrake-cli

that's what up to date stable Debian (9) ships with (0.10.5+ds1-2 ). No newer versions around on the official (or unofficial Debian) repository. There is an unofficial ubuntu repository that has uptodate packages, xenial packages seem to work, for now, but that's not really a solution.

lisamelton commented 6 years ago

@hagabla Ugh. Being unable to use up-to-date software packages is a known "feature" of Debian. Seriously, HandBrakeCLI version 1.0.0 is not some bleeding-edge experiment. It was released on December 24, 2016, over 18 months ago.

If you can't install a newer HandBrakeCLI, then my advice is to downgrade your video_transcoding Gem to version 0.19.0.

ghost commented 6 years ago

I have used the ubuntu package and transcoded the movie successfully already, just though that is something you should be aware of. After all Debian is one of the bigger linux Distros out there. But I also don't see much you could do about it.

Did not think of downgrading video_transcoding, thanks for that.

lisamelton commented 6 years ago

@hagabla Thanks for letting me know! My Linux testers didn't mention that when we were evaluating the change for 0.20.0. It happens. :)

I'm glad that downgrading is an option for you, too.

I'll close this now but feel free to comment further.