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Arista Transcoder is a video converter for Linux that is the only one in existence that makes videos half the file size with no quality loss. When I use FFMPEG or ANY other converter on the same files, they end up even larger than the original... this program is a godsend.

But it's 10 years old now and doesn't work! When I download and compile from source (python) it just keeps telling me import error, no module named gobject.

People online say do pip install gobject, which I did, but the error persists. So I removed the line completely. Then it says the very next module doesn't exist. They all don't exist. I guess the package is too old and none of the dependencies are in the same place anymore in a modern Ubuntu install.

Please, anyone, how can we get this miracle software working again?

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    There are generally two possible answers: You can resurrect the project, fork the code, and update it. Or you can spin up a virtual environment running a 10-year-old OS to run this 10-year old software.
    – user535733
    Nov 14, 2022 at 3:12
  • What are the steps to update the code? I would like to do that, but I don't know where to start
    – ovine
    Nov 14, 2022 at 3:29

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