See also the documentation for provided plug-ins
Definitely required:
well, only if you want to run entrans, but that is the idea …
At least gstreamer (core) and gst-plugins-base are needed, and for any comfortable operation the other modules as well; gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-ugly, gst-plugins-bad and of course gst-ffmpeg. Of course, compiling these oneself may lead to more or less plug-ins, depending on the (e.g. codec) libraries actually installed.
Running entrans requires python bindings for GStreamer provided by PyGObject based on GObject Introspection (with some additional customizing overrides supplied by gst-python).
Optionally needed, e.g. if (re-)building documentation:
This includes DocBook DTDs, and processing capability using Norman Walsh's DocBook XSL stylesheets. XML catalogs for the DTDs should also be setup (usually already taken care of by the installer/distro).
This is used to generate documentation for the plug-ins in the meson build.
enplayer can be run uninstalled as long as enplayer is also present in the same directory, which could be added to the PATH for convenience. enplayer could also be run uninstalled, though some features might be missing as they require elements supplied by the package's plugins.
If necessary prerequisites are satisfied, then the usual sequence applies to build either using tarball or the GIT version:
meson build . ninja -C build install
The distributed tarball includes generated HTML pages, man pages and plugins documentation.
So in that case the included parts are re-used rather than rebuilt, and as such requires
less dependencies.
The use_dist option allows to disable that, whereas the doc
option controls generation of (manual and plugins) documentatation. The default setting
will decide based on the available dependencies.
GEntrans 1.4.3. This is the first release of GEntrans that only supports building using meson.
autotools build system removed
various fixes to enplayer and entrans, some related to python3 port
enhancements to enplayer (e.g. seek relative to end, copy position to clipboard) and entrans (e.g. loading of presets)
GEntrans 1.4.2. This is the first release of GEntrans that supports building using meson. The autotools build system will be removed in a subsequent version.
meson build system added
minor fixes to enplayer and entrans
code style adjustments
minor fixes to enplayer and entrans python3 port
GEntrans 1.4.0. This is the first release of GEntrans using python3.
enplayer and entrans ported to python3
various minor build warning fixes
minor maintenance on documentation build system
GEntrans 1.2.3. This will be the last release of GEntrans using python2.
updates on enplayer media player, e.g. OSD CSS and handling of playlist
updates on enplayer media player, e.g. enable/disable subtitle rendering
updates to gtk-doc building of plugin documentation
minor fixes on the recently added enplayer media player
aligning and namespacing of plugin names and library sonames
a plain though versatile enplayer media player has been added which provides player functionality to suppplement entrans's transcoding capabilities
a new element entransalsavolume has been added, providing optional additional ALSA convenience when using enplayer in an ALSA context
namespacing of debug category and element factory names using a
configure-time determined prefix (default set to entrans)
minor adjustments to entrans to provide shared code support for enplayer
add tag filtering capability to dam
various build fixes and documentation updates
all element GType names are now prefixed with GstEntrans
optional namespacing of debug category and element factory names using a
configure-time determined prefix;
in subsequent (minor) release this prefix will default to entrans
(and might then break existing element references if not overridden)
improved handling of multi-valued options in configuration file
configuration file now also searched for in XDG specified location ($HOME/.config)
miscellaneous fixes and some refactoring of entrans in preparation of next release
minor fixes to msharpen element and entrans script
replace some deprecated pygobject constructs
upgrade build setup to newer autotools and GStreamer
improve parallel installability with 0.10 version
additional fix for 1.x ref handling
make entransstamp really GStreamer 1.x compatible
enhance entransstamp to optionally interpolate existing timestamps
additional 1.x PTS/DTS behavioural adjustments; new tsdup element, tweaks to shift, bufferjoin
miscellaneous code cleanups, build and test fixes
ported to GStreamer 1.0
support for encoding profile based transcoding using encodebin
more gstreamer -good native muxers now selected by default based on file extension
adjustments to upgraded or deprecated core API and behaviour
liboil dependency removed
miscellaneous build fixes, e.g. also support Win32 building
various code cleanups, minor bug fixes and documentation updates
fix possible entrans hang due to pygobject mainloop signal handling in python 2.6
build fixes and adjustments to upgraded or deprecated API
various code cleanups and documentation updates
additional filter elements (ported from AviDemux2)
build fixes and adjustments to upgraded or deprecated API
capssetter element enhanced and moved to upstream
tags are now converted to their expected value type
misc. updates and fixes
make entrans.py also multiqueue and queue2 aware
allow re-ordering of input streams to output streams
processing pipeline can now also be provided per specific stream (rather than only per type of stream)
seek for selected sections no longer restricted to FORMAT_TIME; now also possible in terms of a custom format (e.g. DVD chapter)
monitor for e.g. no-more-pads time-out, and try to correct/simulate
new generic element bufferjoin: joins subsequent buffers with identical timestamps (e.g. codec sequence headers and subsequent frame)
recognize and support some more container format file extensions
upgrades and adjustments to deprecations and new bindings
misc. updates and fixes
Initial release: collection of plugins and python based transcoding command line tool.