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| author | Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org> | 2013-03-27 16:04:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org> | 2013-03-27 16:04:56 +0100 |
| commit | ba7def458eacf300b24819b3e017e5a1b1daa5cd (patch) | |
| tree | 380473d4be43c6aef733ace155295a6bb08ff3f6 /gtk2_ardour/transcode_ffmpeg.cc | |
| parent | bb9847abcd006f4348f0a503fc9309af71f65ad5 (diff) | |
messages related to video-server & ffmpeg external binaries
Diffstat (limited to 'gtk2_ardour/transcode_ffmpeg.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | gtk2_ardour/transcode_ffmpeg.cc | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gtk2_ardour/transcode_ffmpeg.cc b/gtk2_ardour/transcode_ffmpeg.cc index 76c101e231..57121e257d 100644 --- a/gtk2_ardour/transcode_ffmpeg.cc +++ b/gtk2_ardour/transcode_ffmpeg.cc @@ -64,7 +64,18 @@ TranscodeFfmpeg::TranscodeFfmpeg (std::string f) } if (ffmpeg_exe.empty() || ffprobe_exe.empty()) { - PBD::warning << _("No ffprobe or ffmpeg executables could be found on this system. Transcoding is not possible until you install those tools.") << endmsg; + PBD::warning << _( + "No ffprobe or ffmpeg executables could be found on this system.\n" + "Video import and export is not possible until you install those tools.\n" + "Ardour requires ffmpeg and ffprobe from ffmpeg.org - version 1.1 or newer.\n" + "\n" + "The tools are included with the Ardour releases from ardour.org " + "and also available with the video-server at http://x42.github.com/harvid/\n" + "\n" + "Important: the files need to be installed in $PATH and named ffmpeg_harvid and ffprobe_harvid.\n" + "If you already have a suitable ffmpeg installation on your system, we recommend creating " + "symbolic links from ffmpeg to ffmpeg_harvid and from ffprobe to ffprobe_harvid.\n" + ) << endmsg; return; } ffexecok = true; |