audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

Try faac --help. Mine is FAAC 1.24 and shows these options, maybe yours is outdated or compiled without support for these options. Hard for me to handle incomplete or outdated versions. - Oct 01 2006
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

OK, I'll try to add audio extraction. Converting to AVI is not the task of audiokonverter (and never will be). - Oct 01 2006
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

Please confirm this by renaming it to a name without whitespace. Maybe it's a wma problem, I don't have such a file to test, it works with mp3s containing whitespaces, however. - Oct 01 2006
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

Please try as normal user, you will be prompted for the root password. - Sep 30 2006
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

Sure I could, if you tell me any free software that can handle flash video. - Sep 28 2006
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

KDE 3.2.x is minimum, not a recommendation in any way. Also works with KDE 3.5 and will probably work with KDE 4 as well. - Jun 07 2006
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

Please try Perl Audio Converter for an overloaded service menu. I want to keep mine limited to the main formats. - Mar 11 2006
Wav / Mp3 to Ogg

Dolphin Service Menus by TOD 6 comments

PAC is an app which I recommend to everyone that asks for an app, audiokonverter is a service menu. But PAC is no replacement for this SM, because it uses a different approach. - Feb 03 2006
Wav / Mp3 to Ogg

Dolphin Service Menus by TOD 6 comments

audiokonverter does this already, and much more.
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12608 - Feb 02 2006
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

Definitely a path problem. When I do this, I get a dialog to choose the output path. Which one do you choose, or don't you get the dialog? Which KDE version do you have? Try to edit .kde/share/config/kwerc encdir=/home/user1 decdir=/home/user1 Right now I am pretty clueless about "startDir". Looks like kdialog is being started in a dir which it doesn't like. - Jan 29 2006
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

I guess you have to ask someone in a Mandriva forum if you do not want to compile some packages from source. - Jan 21 2006
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

Please post faac --help here. Mine is: Freeware Advanced Audio Coder FAAC 1.24 Usage: faac [options] infiles ... Options: -q Set quantizer quality. -b Set average bitrate to x kbps. (ABR, lower quality mode) -c Set the bandwidth in Hz. (default=automatic) -o X Set output file to X (only for one input file) -r Use RAW AAC output file. -P Raw PCM input mode (default 44100Hz 16bit stereo). -R Raw PCM input rate. -B Raw PCM input sample size (8, 16 (default), 24 or 32bits). -C Raw PCM input channels. -X Raw PCM swap input bytes -I Input channel config, default is 3,4 (Center third, LF fourth) MP4 specific options: -w Wrap AAC data in MP4 container. (default for *.mp4 and *.m4a) --artist X Set artist to X --writer X Set writer to X --title X Set title to X --genre X Set genre to X --album X Set album to X --compilation Set compilation --track X Set track to X (number/total) --disc X Set disc to X (number/total) --year X Set year to X --cover-art X Read cover art from file X --comment X Set comment to X and so on. Did they change the syntax so much? Is your file OK? What filename is it? - Jan 16 2006
Dragon Player

Video Players by eean 278 comments

I really like your player!
But I am missing an easy volume control, there is one only in 'configure xine'. BTW: What should the user think about configuring xine in codeine? This may be confusing. He may not know what xine is anyway. - Nov 16 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

You can also request him to include it. :-) I would support it if needed. - Nov 07 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

Thanks for your input, I will think about a solution. - Nov 06 2005
Convert WMA to MP3-OGG

Dolphin Service Menus by zast 34 comments

This project has been obsoleted by audiokonverter. - Nov 01 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

There is no source and no compiling, only scripts in readable text files. - Oct 29 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

WMA and RealAudio support is on the way! Stay tuned! - Sep 11 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

Thanks,
just vote for "good", everybody :-) - Sep 10 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

Thanks, I sure will! - Sep 08 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

Also keeping those tags is next on my list, but spare time is rare. Please be patient. - Sep 08 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

Please redownload it in case you tried to install by clicking install.sh. There used to be a bug in that script. - Jun 29 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

I cannot change it to "convert to mono?" because the default is always "Yes"! I complained to the KDE developers, but they did not change it up to now. To make it easier I can only skip this possibility. "Keep stereo" is inadequate in case of mono files. Idea?

Which one can do replaygain? In lame it looks turned on by default. - Jun 29 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

Do you have the binary installed?
I don't do all in one app because shorten and other formats are exotic. 99% of all people end up with useless service menus because they don't have the binaries installed. - Jun 29 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

I already did this:
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17302 - Jun 27 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

see README for my mail address. - Jun 26 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

Just go to bugs.kde.org and make a wish :-) - Jun 26 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

There are so many image convert menus, I don't know which one you mean. As AAC, FLAC and MP3 are abbreviations, uppercase makes sense. Kim also uses uppercase for TIF, GIF etc.

So you send me a translation list for ID3V1, V2 and ogg metadata and I will add this genre translation. - Jun 26 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

I will think about presenting menu entries without source data type. By changing to this method it is easy to break stuff.
Following meta data are kept: artist, title, album, year, comment, tracknumber. Genre would mean too much effort for too little importance. - Jun 19 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

Maybe you want to contact zast for this. He already did wma to mp3/ogg in content=19789. So maybe he can also add ra to mp3/ogg, so I don't have to duplicate his work. - May 07 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

OK, you got me! I suppose I have to do flactomp3/ogg/aac as well... Then there should be all combinations. - May 07 2005
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

OK, I'll see what I can do about this. In principle it's easy if faac can do encoding and decoding. - May 05 2005
Convert WMA to MP3-OGG

Dolphin Service Menus by zast 34 comments

Hi!

For an easier user installation you can use the routine from my kwavencoder.ape .
The purpose of your service menu is the same, just the source format is different. - Feb 02 2005
Kim (Kde Image Menu)

Graphic Apps by cbouveyron 196 comments

You can make jhead optional like this:

test -z "$(which jhead)" && mogrify -rotate $ANGLE $FILE || jhead -cmd "convert -rotate $ANGLE &i &o" $FILE

This way, you still use ImageMagick and the EXIF header will be preserved. - Nov 23 2004
Kim (Kde Image Menu)

Graphic Apps by cbouveyron 196 comments

Actually it must be
command "$1"
Should work now... - Nov 15 2004
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

So I hope you have all programs installed and in $PATH. Please check it with "which oggdec" and so on.
If you installed locally, try installing globally.
Next thing is to try the scripts from the commandline: "anytowav file.mp3" and so on. - Nov 06 2004
Kim (Kde Image Menu)

Graphic Apps by cbouveyron 196 comments

At least converting to JPEG silently fails in a directory with a space in its name.

In kwavencoder I use this kind of loop to avoid this:

until [ -z "$1" ]
do
command $1
shift
done - Nov 06 2004
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

It's in vorbis-tools.
http://www.vorbis.com/files/ - Nov 01 2004
Enqueue-and-Play-with-XMMS

Dolphin Service Menus by Mamooth 23 comments

On my system, OGGs should also be application/ogg, but if you view properties of the file it is audio/vorbis. That is what I also use for kwavencoder. It does not work with application/ogg on my system (debian sarge).
I added audio/vorbis to the desktop files and it works fine. Shouldn't do any harm on other systems. - Oct 28 2004
Kim (Kde Image Menu)

Graphic Apps by cbouveyron 196 comments

I just saw you have grayscale... (but with a typo). More localisation would be nice, I volunteer for german. - Oct 26 2004
Kim (Kde Image Menu)

Graphic Apps by cbouveyron 196 comments

Hello, I really like kim (but I looked for it in service menus, since nobody uses the scripts behind them...).

I find the resize pixel values like 300x225 misleading. Not every picture is 4:3 and landscape, so one might wonder what kim does to other pictures.
I suggest "resize to max. 300 pixels".

With your resize, compress, etc. of JPEGs, EXIF data gets lost! I use lines like this in my own menu:
Exec=jhead -cmd "mogrify -quality 90 -geometry 800x800 &i" %F
Maybe you want to think about integrating jhead for JPEGs. You can get the file extension in bash with: ${filename: -4}.

Also you might want to display an error message if a needed tool (like jhead) is missing.

In my own menu I also have brighten up picture with a gamma of 1.2:
Exec=jhead -cmd "mogrify -quality 90 -gamma 1.2 &i" %F
and remove EXIF thumbnail (useful for small files, saves 6kB)
Exec=jhead -dt %F
and grayscale JPEG:
Exec=jhead -cmd "jpegtran -copy all -grayscale &i > &o" %F
and halfscale image.

All in all your solution is way better than mine, but there is still room for improvement :-) - Oct 26 2004
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

Please test kwavencoder.ape for monkey files. - Oct 23 2004
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

kwavencoder.mpc has been published. Enjoy! - Oct 23 2004
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

The problem is that I don't want to bloat the servicemenu too much. I think the userbase for monkey, mpc, etc. files is too small to annoy a regular user with too many options.

I can think of extra projects like kwavencoder.mpc and kwavencoder.ape, but then only conversion from and to WAV, like with FLAC. - Oct 23 2004
QtiPlot

Science by vasilief 347 comments

Hello,
after hassling to get it compiled I took a look at your application. Maybe I am a bit old fashioned, but I don't think that only cloning Origin is worth while doing it. Everytime I have to work with Origin I get angry about how stupid this program is, how many errors it introduces and how many clicks I have to do.
The only thing you may improve is point number 2. But the user concept is confusing and not straight forward. The dialogs have to be better designed and the whole structure of editing and changing options could be done much better.
What I am dreaming of is something like gnuplot with integration of data sets and plots into the interface, including live data manipulation like Excel and functions and better visual effects like Origin.
E.g. I hate the concept to have to create a column for evaluating a function of several other columns. In Origin6.1 this column isn't even auto-generated. Just an idea is to have a gnuplot style command line attached to every data set where you can create plots _and_ automatically new columns with the calculations of the plot command. So you could decide if you use the time consuming dialog thing or just write down your ideas quickly. In both ways the options would be stored in an extra editable tab. Something like that...

With gnuplot you can work really fast, use easily scripts, but you cannot analyze and manipulate data and the interface is cluttered to console, plots and data set editors.
But I don't think that all the cluttered option dialogs of Origin is a good solution. This has to be cleaned up, IMHO.
Nevertheless good luck with your project! Many others seem to like the idea. My opinion is just that there could be "a better Origin". But you won't reach this by cloning 1:1. You have the chance to create something new and better. - Oct 21 2004
kio-locate

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by arminstraub 178 comments

Yes, indeed! - Oct 21 2004
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

I found a monkey binary at http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~pfk/mpp/index2.html#ape
But I doubt that many people have it installed since no Linux player can play those files. - Sep 28 2004
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

What are mad files? I only know the mp3 decoding library.
For monkey files I did not find a linux program. - Sep 28 2004
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

Done in 2.0. - Aug 15 2004
audiokonverter

Dolphin Service Menus by labrum 229 comments

I know this is a backdraw, but until now I did not find a way to make this work for filenames with spaces. When piping all filenames at once, the separator is a space...
Any hint how to do this is welcome. - Jun 05 2004