Hi robwoj44,
From its description at sourceforge, especially the screenshots, FFmpegYAG appears to be a worthwhile tool for video editing as well as file format conversation. Unless I've read too much into the screenshots, it appears that FFmpegYag provides a GUI for cropping, deleting or splitting out portions of a vid.
Regretfully, it as wouldn't run in Precise 5.7.1, I examined it for missing dependencies by opening a terminal in /usr/bin and typing, Code:
ldd ffmpegyag
which generated, in part, the following
sh-4.3# ldd ffmpegyag
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libwx_gtk2u_gl-2.8.so.0 => not found
libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.8.so.0 => not found
libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0 => not found
libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0 => not found
Before I go searching for such missing libs, in which Pup did you successfully run it?
mikesLr
Edit: I found I had some time on my hands so I didn't wait for your response. I unpacked your pet. It's specs suggest you built it in wary. As I was running Precise, vicmz's obprecise 5.7.1, I looked for the missing libs in ubuntu's precise repositories. The libwxgtk2.8-0 deb was found here:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/libwxgtk2.8-0. Downloaded and extracted, it contained all the missing libs except libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0. That lib was found in the deb at
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/libwxbase2.8-0.
The downloaded debs contained other files, but I only used the missing ones, together with symlinks in the extracted packages which --by their names-- clearly pertained to them. I copied the missing libs and symlinks to /usr/lib. Typing "ffmpegyag" in a terminal opened it without reporting any other lib being absent.
On starting ffmpegyag locates both avconv and ffmpeg codecs and asks you to chose which you want to use. To load a vid click Add Task(s) which brings up a file-manager. After it is loaded, highlight it and move the scroll bar under the preview window. There is no "automatic play" tool. The preview window becomes acceptable for use when the application is maximized.
As yet I haven't succeeded in doing much with the application beyond loading a file, selecting segments to copy. It does appear to have the potential for trimming out only those sections of a video you don't want by creating a "play-list" of the desired section: similar to XP's cut-assistant if you're familiar with it. Unfortunately, as yet its only generated error reports and unplayable files. But then, I don't really know anything about codec selection so I'll assume that problem is me.
Sorry I can't provide a pet of the missing libs as it would exceed the forum's file size limitation. Anyone running a Lupu or Tahr based Pup can find a link to the libs required in their respective versions from either webpage cited above.
mikesLr
p.s. Yah, it's my ignorance of codecs. By accepting some defaults I was able to generate three vids, they being selected segments of a source vid. But my selection of concatenate failed with an error message. So, back to exploring.