Has anyone besides me noticed that Avidemux QT version seems to be corrupt in Opensuse 12.1 64 bit?
I have a clean install of 12.1
Installed avidemux 2.5.5-3.5 and avidemux -qt from the packman repo for openssue 12.1
When trying to convert/save a file, despite specifying a save location the file is always saved to the documents folder.
In addition, the specified save file name is not kept and an unintelligible name is substituted (see screenshot)
hmmmmm . . . . might also need a bit of help with a side issue related to this.
Avidemux has created files by the name
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
������a1
in my documents folder.
When I try to delete them (move to trash) I get the message
The file or folder /home/farcus/Documents/EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE+������a1 does not exist
However, if I click on its properties it gives me the file size details etc so it certainly does exist.
If I try changing the permissions I get a message that the permissions could not be changed and then a lock appears on the icon of the file I was trying to delete.
Can someone give me some advice on how to delete these useless files?
Yes, I observe the same behaviour that you describe. Not sure what’s up with the corruption issue, or why Dolphin can’t seem to do anything with the files.
Anyway, the files actually aren’t “useless”. Drop to a console and rename the file (use tab completion to assist in getting the full corrupted name) to whatever you originally intended. You should find afterward that it will be playable. The change will also be reflected in Dolphin.
Thanks for the info. Nice ot know its not just me.
I am having a bit of trouble with your solution as I have multiple files that appear to have the same name.
Using the tab completion method I have to hit tab twice because of more than one file with same name and get the following
farcus@linux-1vjy:~/Documents> mv E
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE+������^G1
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE�������^G1
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEѺ�����^G1
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE�������^G1
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE^J������^G1
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE�
farcus@linux-1vjy:~/Documents> mv EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE+������^G1 /home/farcus/Downloads/junk.avi
mv: cannot stat `EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE+������^G1': No such file or directory
They appear to be the same, but look closely and you will see that they actually all differ.
To move that first one in the output you provided above, enter “mv E” then hit tab … it will give you a bunch of E’s (EEEE…) until the next decision point (for a lack of better description) in the name … at which point, hit “+”, then hit the tab key again. That should give you the full filename for the first one …if it doesn’t, just continue on as just described until you get the complete filename … then append your desired filename (e.g. junk.avi), and it should work. … wash rinse repeat for the other files.
it is not obvious what the next character after the E is so I’m not sure what to do from here.
Even the second line above if I type ^ I am still stuck with nowhere to go and tabbing takes me no further.
stupid forum software just ate what I posted a minute ago >:(
Anyway,
Try inputting the next charcter (“J”) after the “^” and then try to tab complete to the end of the filename. that should get the second file in that list of the remaining three.
Its possible that one of the incomprehensible characters that is shown is actually a “^” too, hence the reason why tab completion stops and you are required to input the next character(s) before resumng with tab completion
Try using the dir command too in order to view the entire filename … I seem to recall that what was being displayed (as in dolphin and other methods) for these corrupted files was truncated from the actual filename that Avidemux had (bizarrely and erroneously) given them/
This may be related to you locale. Try deleting your locale’s language file from /usr/share/avidemux/i10n/. Avidemux-qt will then revert to english default.
I see these graphics character symbols on iso-8859 text file popup’s in dolphin, perhaps your system is not set to UTF-8 (I think this is the default for occidental languages, not sure).
Thanks for the suggestion.
My language / locale was set to English US (the only language locale installed).
However, I tried what you have suggested but the problem still persists.
However, even if this was jut a language based issue - it would not explain why avidemux -qt does not respect the save location and saves to the documents folder regardless of the location specified.
openSUSE 12.1 x86-64 KDE4 avidemux-2.5.5-3.5 UK locale. Took a Matroska file, saved it to ~/temp/video.mp4 converting the audio and had no problem at all. The file is where it is suppoed to be, with the correct name and plays.
You may want to try to delete/move your config (mv ~/.avidemux ~/.avidemuxbak), but in any case there is something special in your systems…
