FastFlix video encoder

[muggins]

https://github.com/cdgriffith/FastFlix

This is a useful gui frontend to ffmpeg. I found the ubuntu_20_x86_64 worked on LxPupSc64, whereas
the other version required a newer glibc.

[stemsee]

Hi

Could you provide the steps you used to run it?

thanks

[muggins]

Could you provide the steps you used to run it?

Hello Stemsee,

1) I just downloaded https://github.com/cdgriffith/FastFlix/ ... x86_64.zip
Unzipped & extracted the Fastflix binary, right clicked the extracted binary & gave it executable permissions, & it runs fine for me,
using Peebee's Lx64ScPup.

2) Or if you're asking how I use it, well I mainly use it to crop videos, using the crop section, in upper right corner. Under File>Settings,
I make sure "Use same output directory as source file" is selected. The other more advanced options are beyond my usage level.

[Jasper]

@stemsee

I did use this in Fossapup64-95 and compiled the additional library (for Foo-Sah) as mentioned on their GitHub page.

If you are planning to use the ability of your gFX card for hardware encoding to offload from your cpu.

Look here for additional applications (best to check the capabilities of your hardware ............ no hardware x265 encoding for me ):

https://github.com/rigaya?tab=repositories

**EDIT** I did see that this binary is available for Fossa

qsvencc_7.37_Ubuntu20.04_amd64.deb

it contains a number of options to use.

I do not know much about FatDog and hopefully you can find this elsewhere.

[stemsee]

FatDog has libraries which are too old, so I cannot test further. I am reluctant to use another distro as my laptop is a chromebook, and only my 5.2.21 kernel gets all hardware working. I did tried to use my kernel with other distros but not really successful.

cheers
stemsee

[Jasper]

@stemsee

Does your kernel have VA-API enabled? It should be supported.

You can check using the

vainfo

binary using terminal

If so, applications like VLC, FFMPEG and GStreamer (..... you will have to Google for VA-API linux applications) will benefit from this.

Have you tried a dedicated driver for your graphics?

**EDIT** Vainfo is included here https://www.mediafire.com/file/9zqr1g40 ... 4.pet/file it was compiled for Fossapup, but you could extract the Pet and just try the binary by itself.

[Jasper]

Thinking aloud ....

The LibVa library should be easy enough to compile.

https://github.com/intel/libva

It needs Meson (download, install using Python pip) and Ninja (I have an updated binary) which should be available to you in your DevX.

It is worth a try.

[stemsee]

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[Jasper]

@stemsee

I see that you are attempting to use a newer build of Python.

Is this package not available to you by default?

If it is available to you, we only need access to the PIP module in order for you to update Meson if that is only necessary.

[mikewalsh]

@muggins / @stemsee :-

Nice find! Runs A-OK for me in an upgraded Xenialpup64, that's using FP64-9.5's k5.4.53 kernel & glibc 2.31 (up from k4.9.58 and glibc 2.23).

No need to install anything to support it. Just make it executable.....and it fires straight up after a short delay. Now for some testing...

Cheers.

Mike.