[phredeaux]

MCEBuddy is now open source and on SourceForge.

Over the years MCEBuddy has been developed in bursts. Essentially when I have lots of work on not much happens and when when things ease I have been coding things. This has made myself the bottleneck for development and as such even small fixes could potentially take a month or more to get out. There have been many requests to open source MCEBuddy but it has not been that simple. Most versions to date have contained proprietary code that would be incompatible with releasing MCEBuddy under GPL. So over the weeks since the release of BETA18 I have been recoding parts until it now can be open sourced and here it is in BETA19!

If you can contribute with enhancements and bug fixes, please do. BETA19 will NOT be released as is, as it is essentially a ‘source code release’. The next beta will be BETA20. At this stage there are not many bugs in MCEBuddy itself but in the underlying components (FFMPEG, MENCODER, REMUX, etc.). So hopefully things should not be too onerous. If anyone is good with cross-compilations then some help would be great. We need more current builds of ffmpeg and mencoder based upon the patched MinGW method used here: http://oss.netfarm.i...layer-win32.php (we need aac support). The current ffmpeg/mencoder/handbrake builds choke or desync on some of our test recordings.

I will be uploading test recordings to use soon to. These are critically important as while a build you are playing with may work fine with your recordings, chances are it will choke on someone else’s.

Get your source here: http://sourceforge.n...y/files/Source/

Enjoy!

Derek

This post has been edited by phredeaux: 02 January 2012 - 09:20 PM

[Ramit]

Derek is there a reposiroty that someone is owning/maintaining - if someone makes changes to it, how do we upload it and who maintains it?

[Ramit]

Derek,

Two issues need your help with to complete the build:

1. what's the password to the MCDBuddy PFX file?
2. Where are the libraries for the ShowAnalyzer (it don't build) (it's not in your source code, how did you build it?)

[phredeaux]

Ramit, on 25 January 2012 - 07:36 PM, said:

Derek is there a reposiroty that someone is owning/maintaining - if someone makes changes to it, how do we upload it and who maintains it?

Ramit, I'm setting up a repository now on the sourceforge link. Originally it was going to be GIT but the Windows implementation was a pain in the butt for VS2010 and SF, so it's going to be SVN. Keep your stuff on your existing SF link and we'll merge the forks once I've got the SVN going. I'll also have to add the non-VS Solution files to the soln so it can SVNed as well. I'll add you as a maintainer.

Thanks for the update too! It's great to see. So many people say they want to contribute, but in reality not many get the rubber on the road and actually do it.

The Showanalyser integration is via COM, but you've probably worked that one out if you've got a build going. Which build sources are you using for the ffmpeg/mencoder bases?

Cheers

Derek

[Ramit]

Derek,

Great to hear from you. Have you made any recent changes/updates - useful to know for the merge. I've setup a repository on sourceforge as well, if you haven't made any changes I can add you as a admin to the site and we can use the code base to avoid any merge issues. I'm also using SVN. You can also check it out. I've SVN's all the possible files needed to build the project.

https://sourceforge....2x/code/7/tree/

i'll need your help for ShowAnalyzer, for now I've just disabled the code there, maybe you can check out the code and can help me figure out how to add teh dependencies to the build files to enable access to it.
The build config files I've rebuilt to some extent since many of them were referring to static builds which was creating some issue as I was adding features. So now the entire project is rebuilt and relinked everytime you build.

I'm not rebuilding FFMPEG or MENCODER as yet, just using the binaries - that's something I need to figure out how to get a x64 build for them.

Ramit

phredeaux, on 30 January 2012 - 05:55 AM, said:

Ramit, I'm setting up a repository now on the sourceforge link. Originally it was going to be GIT but the Windows implementation was a pain in the butt for VS2010 and SF, so it's going to be SVN. Keep your stuff on your existing SF link and we'll merge the forks once I've got the SVN going. I'll also have to add the non-VS Solution files to the soln so it can SVNed as well. I'll add you as a maintainer.

Thanks for the update too! It's great to see. So many people say they want to contribute, but in reality not many get the rubber on the road and actually do it.

The Showanalyser integration is via COM, but you've probably worked that one out if you've got a build going. Which build sources are you using for the ffmpeg/mencoder bases?

Cheers

Derek

[Ramit]

Derek do you have the sources for ReMuxSupp? Where did that software come from? I'm not able to locate the source, trying to fix a bug that's crashing some recordings while converting from wtv to ts.

tx
Ramit