Re: [gentoo-user] Avidemux does not display dialogue boxes

[Andrew Lowe]

On 10/31/2013 12:29 AM, Peter Weilbacher wrote:
> On 2013-10-30 16:44, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>
>>     I've just installed the video tool avidemux but when I load a video,
>> the video loads, but there is no sound. A Google search offered a remedy
>> which required opening the preferences dialogue box. I attempted to do
>> this, but low and behold, no dialogue box will open. Further
>> investigation reveals that File->Open, File->Save, File->Information and
>> more don't display their dialogue boxes.
>
> I am not deeply familiar with it but I use it a lot, in version
> media-video/avidemux-2.5.6-r2, with the gtk interface. I have tried to
> also compile and use with the qt4 UI with less good results. I also
> found the 2.6.x version to be broken in several ways, but that was a few
> months ago. So although the 2.5.x version has security holes, I tend to
> not work on videos with unknown origin, so I am still using that.
>
> Maybe this helps you,
>    Peter.
>
>

	I'm using the QT4 interface so there could be something there. I'll
have to follow up on the avidemux forums.

	Thanks,
		Andrew