14 DAY TRIAL // Transmageddon, a video transcoder developed to take advantage of GStreamer and to convert numerous types of files, has been updated and is now at version 1.5.
Transmageddon is a very important tool because it's one of the few applications out there that can really do what it says, with very little input from users. This is not the only application of its type, by any means, but it's one of the most stable and reliable. It's basically a GUI for GStreamer, which means that anything you can do with this app can also be done from the terminal.
This is where this application shines. Users don't need to remember over-complicated commands for the terminal and they don't need to debug the command if something goes wrong.
It's possible to just select the format you want and the GStreamer libraries will do the rest of the work. Also, installing Transmageddon seems to provide support for any kind of files, a feature that is not present in other apps, like HandBrake for example.
The latest version of Transmageddon is not all that exciting
It's hard to improve upon Transmageddon, because the application is almost complete. It takes care of most of the files out there and only small improvements, fixes, and the occasional repairs for regressions are left. The same is true for the latest version of the app, but it doesn't make it less important to update as soon as possible.
"No major new features just fixing a regression in terms of dealing with files where you only have a video track or where you want to drop the audio track as part of the transcoding process. I am also having some issues with Intel Hardware encoding atm, but I think those are somewhere lower in the stack, so I hope to file a bug against either GStreamer or the libva project for that issue, but for now I recommend not having the Intel VA plugins for GStreamer installed," explains Christian Schaller in the official announcement.
The developer also says that he is pushing for the adoption of Transmageddon 1.5 in the upcoming Fedora 21 release, although it might be a little too late for that. Users can download the source package for the 1.5 release from Softpedia. There is no binary installation file, but it should be pretty easy to compile it.