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Kaum damit fertig, meine DvD uns Bluray Sammlung zu rippen und via #SteamDeck und #Kodi ins heimische Wohnzimmer zu bringen, hab ich hier einen Nachmittag einen vollständigen Internetausfall.
Ist mir doch egal :)
PS: #MakeMKV, #handbrake und #MKVToolNix ftw! Wenn etwas unter Linux geht, dann die eigene Unabhängigkeit gegen Techkonzerne sichern. Juchee
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After breaking out `strace` and just a ton of other stuff I finally figured out what was going on. A single encoder option was invalid which caused the workers to crash before even writing the file in the data directory. Fixing the setting cleared up the issue and made everything happy.
What caused this rabbithole initially was `av1an` eating itself when trying to put the video and audio stuff together at the end of an encode. Unfortunately the `audio.mkv` file it was trying to mux into the container kept causing `mkvmerge` to fail because the audio file was empty. _This_ was caused by bad audio encoder options being passed to `ffmpeg`.
I made sure I documented both of these and I'm currently running test videos before calling it 100% good.
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Free Software that I rely on. One per day.
Day 18:
MKVToolNix
This is a tool kit of utilities, including a GUI front end, for manipulating Matroska streaming multimedia files (usually "MKV" or "MKA" files).
The Matroska container format allows for multiple audio, video, and text streams, which means you can encode a video with multiple options for audio and subtitles (as well as alternate video tracks).
It also supports setting up "Chapter" marks.
A must-have for authoring and checking complex videos for streaming and download use.
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#Linux Weekly Roundup for September 14th, 2025: #KDE Plasma 6.4.5, #PipeWire 1.4.8, #LMDE 7, #GStreamer 1.26.6, #openSUSE disabling #Bcachefs support, #VirtualBox 7.2.2, KDE Gear 25.08.1, #Q4OS 6.1, Hyprland 0.51, Puppy Linux BookwormPup64 10.0.12, #MKVToolNix 95.0, KDE Frameworks 6.18, #Steam Client update, new Slimbook laptops, #fwupd 2.0.15, #Kodi 22 alpha, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-september-14th-2025
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I was forced to use #Avidemux and #MKVToolnix on #Windows10 to strip graphic SSA subtitles from MKV files into SRT and recode a dozen such files to AVI with the SRT files next to it and I was so lost outside of a #Linux #Bash environment... Tried to #Python my way into a batch script but this just showed my weakness; I am terribad at Python. XD Anyway, I got it done (after adding the C:\Program Files\MKVToolnix folder to %PATH% because I decided to use Command Prompt, for some goddamned reason.)
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One of my hobbies is creating tools to #transcode my collection of Blu-ray Discs and DVDs for playback on #Plex servers. These are all cross-platform wrappers for #FFmpeg or #HandBrake. My most flexible script, focused on hardware video encoders, is here:
https://github.com/donmelton/other_video_transcoding
Feel free to message me if you have questions about my scripts, FFmpeg, #HandBrakeCLI, #MKVToolNix or other video nerdery. I've been doing this for over a decade so I can probably point you in the right direction.
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