Future of XenonMKV

[jbillo]

Hey all,

Thanks for your support over the past year or so with XenonMKV. I'd like to apologize for the lack of updates on the project - I've had some pretty significant life changes and am currently trying to figure out where I'll be and what I'll be doing in the next few years. On top of that, my main development associate is finishing his last term of school and is pretty much MIA until he graduates. (Damn iPhone applications being more popular than anything else in today's market!)

I'd like to note that I've fired up Visual Studio again and will try and have a preview release of the "new" XenonMKV completed as soon as possible. Its revised structure should make it easier to maintain and update, and opens the door to several neat possibilities. By default, there will be a stable queue system that allows individual files and complete folders to be processed in whatever order you select.

I'm also debating whether I'd like to migrate the application to C#/Mono for Linux compatibility. I run Linux Mint as my main desktop right now and really enjoy it, but I'm not sure how many people would use XenonMKV under Linux over, say, an OS X port. Right now I think my goal will be to get the app out and running under XP, Vista and 7 - and then we'll go from there.

Once again, your support is much appreciated, and here's hoping I can deliver something awesome.

Jake

[jbillo]

Here's an in-progress screen capture of some of tonight's work on the UI. I was also able to successfully convert my first MKV file using this build. The rest of the work is just making it usable outside of the Visual Studio IDE.

[jbillo]

Today's work has focused on making queue support operational:



It still doesn't split files or handle multi-track MKVs gracefully yet, but things are looking up.

[war59312]

Nice! And I for one would use it every day on Linux.

Currently I'm having to run this bad boy on Windows to convert my movies and then upload them (via slow ass wireless, about 1MB/s) to my server.

Would be so much nicer if I could simply download all my movies directly to the server and run XenonMKV directly on it. Taking out the middle man.

So you can count me in for a Linux clone.

In fact, I'm willing to pay for it!!!

PS: Will gladly run alphas/betas and provide feedback if you wish.

[jbillo]

Thanks for the support! I'll give it some more consideration and will see what happens with this version. The biggest problem I think I'd run into is with the MediaInfo DLL files, versus the equivalent libmediainfo on Linux.

Who knows, maybe I should give up and start writing this in Python.

[nobody187]

I would DEFINITELY use a linux version of XenonMKV. At this point, using Xenon is one of only two reasons I even bother to keep a Windows OS on my desktop, the other being to use Windows to burn backup copies of Xbox 360 games. So yes, PLEEEEASE make a linux version! I registered this forum account JUST so I could tell you i'd use it and beg ya to do it!

Thanks!

[war59312]

Hi,

Also, could you please add support for subtitles?

Mainly having the ability to merge .SRT and .SUB subtitles into the output file.

And of coursing keep subtitles that were already merged in the original .mkv file.

Now what would be really awesome is that on top of that if XenonMKV could be smart enough to automatically download and merge the correct subtitle from http://www.opensubtitles.org/, if the subtitle is available and if the user enables the option to do so of course.

Currently I'm using AVIDEMUX after converting the video with XenonMKV to add the subtitles. Just takes forever and adds another manual step.

Thanks,

Will

[dekks]

Hi,

Also, could you please add support for subtitles?

Mainly having the ability to merge .SRT and .SUB subtitles into the output file.

And of coursing keep subtitles that were already merged in the original .mkv file.

Now what would be really awesome is that on top of that if XenonMKV could be smart enough to automatically download and merge the correct subtitle from http://www.opensubtitles.org/, if the subtitle is available and if the user enables the option to do so of course.

Currently I'm using AVIDEMUX after converting the video with XenonMKV so add the subtitles. Just takes forever and adds another manual step.

Thanks,

Will

Perhaps a slightly more graceful way of handling this is something similar to what SABnzbd and have a option for post processing scripts, just have a option to link to a program and any arguments for the commandline and pipe the finished file to it.

I.E once it's finished converting LegitimateLinuxIso.avi, it will automatically launch 'SubHardcoder.exe -RecodeWSubs LegitmateLinixIso.avi'.

It's a shame that MP4Box doesn't offer hardcoding of subs and only merging as it'd save a step of having to recode the entire thing, but then again I'd imagine unless you're a huge foreign media buff or into anime (loser!  ) that you wouldn't need to do it very often.

[StriatedFoot]

Thanks for the great software!  Looking forward to the next release.

FWIW, I'd love a command line version under Linux/FreeBSD, which probably wouldn't be that hard to implement if you ported it to Linux.  I've tried writing a script to do something similar to XenonMKV, but it gets hung up at the mp4box step, so I know I'm doing something wrong. 

[war59312]

jbillo, almost 3 months. Any news?

Would love to test an alpha m8. Thanks!

[jbillo]

I wish there was better news... web dev and odd client requests have been killing me. I'm starting a new job Monday which should give me a bit more time in the evenings, and I'll check with my buddy Phil (he's done school now) and see if he's interested in contributing again.

I appreciate the interest though

[war59312]

No problem. Just glad your still around. Congrats on the new job!!  

I am installing Visual Studio 2010 right now to see if I can fix the darn audio sync problem:

http://xenonmkv.ev98.net/forum/index.php/topic,164.msg3036.html#msg3036

Update: OH no seems build 36 is missing from:

http://xenonmkv.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xenonmkv/tags/

http://xenonmkv.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xenonmkv/trunk/ appears to be it, but a tagged build would be nice.

Update 2:

Fixed it. Please see the other thread.