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#1 list of feature requests
Hiya!
i've got a few "nice to have" features i'd like to submit but don't want to open a separate request for each one...
First, the relatively minor requests:
#1: Persistent directory for Open operations.
When selecting a file for conversion, it would be really convenient if the directory was persistent, such that the next Open operation starts in that directory. Having to re-navigate to the vids directory is a pain in the butt, especially because the GTK file dialog is so awkward to use.
#2: Ability to select output dir, in case source dir is read-only. (My videos are mounted on a filesystem which not all users have write access to.)
#3: The ability to select an arbitrary name for converted videos. My PSP does not request names like "M4V#####.mpg". Maybe older firmwares did, but current ones do not. My PSP allows me to use any filename, and as long as i put the videos in the VIDEO folder then it can play them (assuming it's in a supported format).
#4: When creating a thumbnail, use the name FILE.JPG, not FILE.THB (or THM?). The current extension does not work on my PSP (3.51 firmware, if i'm not mistaken), but renaming it to FILE.JPG does.
#5: accept file:// URLs in the Open text field. When dragging a file to that field using Konqueror (and probably when using Gnome's default file manager), it drops the file's name with file:// prepended. Then, upon clicking Convert, an error is thrown because it doesn't recognize URLs. Dragging a file to the filename field is more convenient than using the file selection dialog, though (see above, point #2).
Now the bigger ones:
#6: Batch conversion. The ability to select multiple files and convert them in batch would be really cool, so we could leave videos to convert over night.
If pspvc was written using Qt i would have already started to add some of these features, but i'm not at all familiar with GTK (and don't really want to be, to be honest ;).
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I like to make clean package and don't mind taking the src out of the zip and leaving the install script.
BUT I hate it when an app install older versions of apps like ffmpeg and x264 .
2 reasons 1) they are old 2) they do not belong in share folder as they are arch not noah. SO on a 64bit system it makes it hard to install both for video that still need the 32bit codecs. Plus the fact that I aviod straight install allways. I like to instlal to in DESTDIR where it get packaged up and checking the package.
I'm looking on how to get it to use my allready installed and newer ffmpeg/x264 .
If not I'll just keep using avidemux2 and ffmpeg cli to make the thumbnails .
Please add --ffmpeg-bin(or what ever)= --x264-(same)= to configure .
So far it looks like I just have to patch src/callbacks.c args[argc++]=g_strdup(PACKAGE_DATA_DIR"/pspvc/bin/ffmpeg"); but I'll need to find out where the PACKAGE_DATA_DIR is . But the way it looks I just need to remove that and put /usr/bin/ffmpeg
such a mess :( only few apps that make compiling irratating.