mkvmerge GUI or MKVToolNix GUI not available?

freyr · 2015-09-28 17:44:10

Hi!

Today I wanted to start the mkvmerge GUI but it isn't there anymore.

I remember that there was a warning about it being replaced by MKVToolNix (for the GUI that'd be mmg if I'm not mistaken) but that's not available either. mkvtoolnix-gtk is installed but the mmg command is not present, there's no binary like this and pkgfile mmg returns with no result.
Obviously I searched for mkvmerge, too, but only the mkvmerge itself is present, no mkvmerge-gui or mkvmerge-gtk, there's no graphical app at all.

So... what's just happened? Where is the GUI? According to its page mkvtoolnix-gtk package contains only the mkvinfo-gtk app. Why? What's going on?

progandy · 2015-09-28 17:56:15

Is a GUI really necessary? Maybe you can recompile the mkvtools gui package with the mkvmerge gui, if that is part of the sources?

https://bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/doc/ChangeLog
2015-08-15 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
* Removal: all support for wxWidgets has been removed. This means
that the mkvmerge GUI (mmg) has been removed and that mkvinfo now
only supports a text-mode and a Qt-based interface.

Last edited by progandy (2015-09-28 18:04:09)

freyr · 2015-09-28 18:16:45

progandy wrote:

Is a GUI really necessary? Maybe you can recompile the mkvtools gui package with the mkvmerge gui, if that is part of the sources?

Yes, it's necessary. And if you read the log entry you inserted properly, you'll find that there's a Qt based GUI and it's built by default.
Just read the changelog further. Only the Arch package doesn't have it for some reason.
Of course, mkvtoolnix-gtk shouldn't include a Qt app, but there's no reason not to create e.g. an mkvtoolnix-gui package.

Last edited by freyr (2015-09-28 18:26:39)

V1del · 2015-09-28 18:24:26

usr/bin/mkvinfo-gtk

Look at the package on the site or at the output of

pacman -Ql mkvtoolnix-gtk

Edit:

Disregard, didn't read the opening post closely enough, may be worth a bug report to package the QT based gui

Last edited by V1del (2015-09-28 18:26:07)

progandy · 2015-09-28 18:30:34

I know that it wasn't the only GUI, but you were specifically asking about mmg. I just read the PKGBUILD. There is a pesky little switch called --disable-gui in the build function. I guess you should see how to enable it and split it in a -gui package. If you figure it out, send it to the maintainer

Last edited by progandy (2015-09-28 18:34:02)

freyr · 2015-09-28 18:35:54

progandy wrote:

I know that it wasn't the only GUI, but I thought the rest of the GUIs should be in the package, so I just read the PKGBUILD. There is a pesky little switch called --disable-gui in the build function. I guess you should see how to enable it and split it in a -gui package. If you figure it out, send it to the maintainer

Oh, don't know... maybe... remove that switch? The current GUI is enabled during build by default. I don't know why they decided to keep the -gtk package and not create a -qt or -gui package.
It makes no sense.

...Currently I'm building mkvtoolnix-git from AUR. God, it takes forever! I'll hope that the GUI package will eventually show up. There's nothing wrong upstream, the Arch package maintainers should be contacted and asked about this but I don't know how.

Last edited by freyr (2015-09-28 18:44:41)

V1del · 2015-09-28 20:06:10

There's the package maintainer or the Arch Linux Bugtracker where you can specify a bug against the -gtk package and ask it to be switched to qt as gtk has been deprecated by upstream

freyr · 2015-09-28 20:25:34

V1del wrote:

There's the package maintainer or the Arch Linux Bugtracker where you can specify a bug against the -gtk package and ask it to be switched to qt as gtk has been deprecated by upstream

Thanks!

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mkvmerge GUI or MKVToolNix GUI not available?

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