[NEW RELEASE] Arista - Easy to use transcoder for the GNOME Desktop

mrbug · 2009-04-23 09:16:29

I have created packages (regular and nightly releases) in the AUR for a new program called Arista.

http://programmer-art.org/projects/arista-transcoder

An easy to use multimedia transcoder for the GNOME Desktop. Arista focuses on being easy to use by making the complex task of encoding for various devices simple. Pick your input, pick your target device, choose a file to save to and go.
Arista has been in development since early 2008 as a side project and was just recently polished to make it release-worthy. The 0.8 release is the first public release and includes a to-do of items that will be completed for the 1.0 final release.
Features
* Presets for iPod, computer, DVD player, PSP, and more
* Live preview to see encoded quality
* Automatically discover available DVD drives and media
* Rip straight from DVD media easily (requires libdvdcss)
* Simple terminal client for scripting
Requirements
Arista is written in Python and requires the bindings for GTK+ 2.16 or newer, GStreamer, GConf, GObject, Cairo, and DBus. If you are an Ubuntu user this means you need to be using at least Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty). The GStreamer plugins required depend on the presets available, but at this time you should have gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-bad, gst-plugins-ugly, and gst-ffmpeg. If you are on Ubuntu don't forget to install the multiverse packages.
Development
All development will happen on Launchpad, which provides bug tracking, distributed version control, milestone / roadmap planning and tracking, a forum and translation utilities.

EDIT: I guess I should add AUR links =-)

Regular release: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25872
Bazaar (nightly) release: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25876

Last edited by mrbug (2009-04-23 09:20:19)

fukawi2 · 2009-04-23 10:43:14

Nice... Binary of the nightly available for x86_64 on my repo for the lazy ones

[fukawi]
http://repo.falconn.nl/x86_64

I also replaced the "python-gconf" dependency with "gnome-python" as python-gconf conflicts with gnome-python which is required by several other packages I have installed.

Allan · 2009-04-23 11:21:31

Looks good. I think I will give this a spin (ogmrip just does not cut it...)

fukawi2 · 2009-04-23 22:50:33

Binary of the nightly available for i686 now too:

[fukawi]
http://repo.falconn.nl/i686

mrbug · 2009-04-23 23:21:37

I replaced the gnome-python dependency in both PKGBUILDS. I wasn't sure which one I'd need, but it looks like I originally picked the wrong one!

Is libdvdcss a required or optional dependency?

fukawi2 · 2009-04-24 00:14:25

mrbug wrote:

Is libdvdcss a required or optional dependency?

I'd say yes, since it is optional (only if you want to transcode from DVD)

Rasi · 2009-04-24 07:24:06

fukawi2 wrote:

mrbug wrote:
Is libdvdcss a required or optional dependency?
I'd say yes, since it is optional (only if you want to transcode from DVD)

"Yes" is a strange answer to an "Or" question

fukawi2 · 2009-04-24 09:14:01

Rasi wrote:

"Yes" is a strange answer to an "Or" question

Whoops, I mis-read....

I'd say an optional dependancy since some users won't have a DVD drive hence won't be able to rip from DVD.

mrbug · 2009-04-25 03:26:40

I've updated the PKGBUILDs to reflect the optional dependencies...

eldragon · 2009-04-25 03:56:36

looks promising, lets see if it delivers

mrbug · 2009-04-26 16:29:50

eldragon wrote:

looks promising, lets see if it delivers

Hey, feel free to submit bugs/fixes and the audio/video settings for various devices! Dan could also use some testers for target devices -- I believe that he's currently looking for someone who can test the Playstation 3 output.

mrbug · 2009-04-27 14:09:21

I have updated the bazaar package at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25876

New features include:

V4L input support (allows for direct camera-to-file encoding)
Internationalization support through gettext
Preset tweaks
Automatic updating of presets to the latest versions in a repository (user-configurable)

iBertus · 2009-04-27 20:13:14

awesome! i'm going to install this and give it a try when i get home from work.

mrbug · 2009-04-28 20:17:47

Updated to version 0.9! Check the aur page for details.

dancer69 · 2015-09-13 12:52:24

I tried arista before 2 months in arch linux and now with manjaro and doesn't convert anything. The program starts fine, let you choose the file for conversion, preset etc, but when push "Create" it just do nothing.
I get the following output when running from terminal:

arista-gtk
** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/arista/discoverer.py:245: Warning: g_hash_table_lookup: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed
  if not self.set_state(gst.STATE_PLAYING):
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/arista/discoverer.py:245: Warning: g_hash_table_insert_internal: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed
  if not self.set_state(gst.STATE_PLAYING):

(arista-gtk:1634): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_tag_register_static: assertion 'type != 0 && type != GST_TYPE_LIST' failed

(arista-gtk:1634): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_tag_register_static: assertion 'type != 0 && type != GST_TYPE_LIST' failed
sys:1: Warning: specified class size for type 'GstFaad' is smaller than the parent type's 'GstAudioDecoder' class size
sys:1: Warning: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed

(arista-gtk:1634): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_register: assertion 'g_type_is_a (type, GST_TYPE_ELEMENT)' failed
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/arista/transcoder.py:542: Warning: specified class size for type 'GstLameMP3Enc' is smaller than the parent type's 'GstAudioEncoder' class size
  "aencoder")
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/arista/transcoder.py:542: Warning: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed
  "aencoder")

(arista-gtk:1634): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_register: assertion 'g_type_is_a (type, GST_TYPE_ELEMENT)' failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/arista/transcoder.py", line 228, in _got_info
    self._setup_pass()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/arista/transcoder.py", line 542, in _setup_pass
    "aencoder")
gst.ElementNotFoundError: lame

Seems that doesn't find lame, but all dependencies are installed and the

gst-inspect-0.10 | egrep "lame|xvid"

gives the following:

lame:  lamemp3enc: L.A.M.E. mp3 encoder
lame:  lame: L.A.M.E. mp3 encoder
xvid:  xvidenc: XviD video encoder
xvid:  xviddec: XviD video decoder

Has anyone else using arista? Do you have this problem?

fukawi2 · 2015-09-14 23:12:05

dancer69 wrote:

I tried arista before 2 months in arch linux and now with manjaro and doesn't convert anything.

First, Manjaro is not Arch, please ask on the Majaro forums. Second, please leave the dead to rest in peace.

Closing.

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[NEW RELEASE] Arista - Easy to use transcoder for the GNOME Desktop

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