VidCutter AppImage for 64-bit Pups...
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 11:18 pm
Evening, guys'n'gals.
VidCutter 6.0 AppImage from ozmartian
Some of you may remember my waxing lyrical about this thing a couple or three years back. Early versions ran fine in Tahrpu64 and Slacko64 630. As the versions progressed, however, the dependencies started stacking up, and it was getting so's the old Compaq tower wouldn't run it any longer. To be fair, it was asking a lot of what was not much better than a pair of P4s strapped together; don't get me wrong, I love the old dual-core Athlon64 X2s, but they easily hit their limitations!
Anyways; it must be the best part of 18 months since I last looked at this. In that time, the most recent version was released - 6.0 - and I've treated myself to new, far more capable hardware.
I was reading this article over at MakeUseOf earlier on, giving apps on every platform for working with a particular 'puppy' home video..! The one mentioned for Linux was VidCutter, so I thought I'd try it again.
In the meantime I've been using LosslessCut - which is great, though a little more technical - but this thing from ozmartian is super simple, and even a green noob could perform a perfect track-cutting operation in minutes. It really is that easy to use. Both, as it happens, leverage the full power of the ever-amazing ffmpeg.
Here's a quick demonstration for y'all:-
Now; which Pups will it run in? For me, it runs in Xenialpup64 & josejp2424's DPupBuster64, but, curiously, not Bionicpup64, where it bitches about the XDG_DIR not being set, and segfaults. Neither will it run in my remaining 64-bit Puppy, jrb's lightweight spin on BK's Quirky64 April 7.0.1, but that doesn't surprise me; jrb stripped most of the Mesa/OpenGL stuff out of it in the interests of making it lighter.....and nobody's heard from him since. I have no idea what was removed, or how to go about replacing it, and when all's said and done, it IS Tarhpup-era....and, as such, a lot of the libs'n'stuff are rather too old. "Trusty" had just been released when I first started with Linux - 6½ years ago (gawd, where does the time go?) - and although an LTS, it's been EOL for 18 months now.
Ozmartian's GitHub page for VidCutter can be found here:-
https://github.com/ozmartian/vidcutter
Download the AppImage from here:-
https://github.com/ozmartian/vidcutter- ... /tag/6.0.0
Seems it's also available these days as either a Flatpak or a Snap, too, so......some of you may have more luck with these things. Anyways, if you decide to take a look at it, have fun!
Mike.
VidCutter 6.0 AppImage from ozmartian
Some of you may remember my waxing lyrical about this thing a couple or three years back. Early versions ran fine in Tahrpu64 and Slacko64 630. As the versions progressed, however, the dependencies started stacking up, and it was getting so's the old Compaq tower wouldn't run it any longer. To be fair, it was asking a lot of what was not much better than a pair of P4s strapped together; don't get me wrong, I love the old dual-core Athlon64 X2s, but they easily hit their limitations!
Anyways; it must be the best part of 18 months since I last looked at this. In that time, the most recent version was released - 6.0 - and I've treated myself to new, far more capable hardware.
I was reading this article over at MakeUseOf earlier on, giving apps on every platform for working with a particular 'puppy' home video..! The one mentioned for Linux was VidCutter, so I thought I'd try it again.
In the meantime I've been using LosslessCut - which is great, though a little more technical - but this thing from ozmartian is super simple, and even a green noob could perform a perfect track-cutting operation in minutes. It really is that easy to use. Both, as it happens, leverage the full power of the ever-amazing ffmpeg.
Here's a quick demonstration for y'all:-
Now; which Pups will it run in? For me, it runs in Xenialpup64 & josejp2424's DPupBuster64, but, curiously, not Bionicpup64, where it bitches about the XDG_DIR not being set, and segfaults. Neither will it run in my remaining 64-bit Puppy, jrb's lightweight spin on BK's Quirky64 April 7.0.1, but that doesn't surprise me; jrb stripped most of the Mesa/OpenGL stuff out of it in the interests of making it lighter.....and nobody's heard from him since. I have no idea what was removed, or how to go about replacing it, and when all's said and done, it IS Tarhpup-era....and, as such, a lot of the libs'n'stuff are rather too old. "Trusty" had just been released when I first started with Linux - 6½ years ago (gawd, where does the time go?) - and although an LTS, it's been EOL for 18 months now.
Ozmartian's GitHub page for VidCutter can be found here:-
https://github.com/ozmartian/vidcutter
Download the AppImage from here:-
https://github.com/ozmartian/vidcutter- ... /tag/6.0.0
Seems it's also available these days as either a Flatpak or a Snap, too, so......some of you may have more luck with these things. Anyways, if you decide to take a look at it, have fun!
Mike.