Compiling on modern linux versions

[phirestalker]

Great program. I bought it for my mac machine, but I also wish to use it on my linux machine. Debian bookworm on arm64. The problem is that it is using newer libraries and they are apparently not compatible. I was able to get rid of the opencv2 include files not being found by adding to the include path. However, now I seem to be getting a lot of errors related to ffmpeg.

Has anyone got this to compile on a modern linux?
Is there a binary somewhere for linux arm?
Is there any hope of some library dependency updates to this program?

[theophanemayaud]

What ffmpeg libs are you linking to when compiling the app ? I've never tried for linux, if you get it to work please submit a PR it'd be great as an example for others !

I believe it should be pretty similar to macOS :

• compile ffmpeg for your os/architecture
• compile the opencv2 library for your boss/architecture
• compile the main app

I really had trouble compiling ffmpeg on windows but on macOS it was ok, and linux should be even better. opencv2 if I remember correctly I found the libs precompiled.
Then it's just a matter of putting in qt the correct paths in the correct places...

[theophanemayaud]

You need to read and adapt for linux the DEPENDENCIES.md information, in order to build or download native ffmpeg and opencv libraries. This is the most annoying part, why I also didn't try to support linux, because the main code is much easier to build with qt for each platform, but the dependencies are such a pain !

[EldrinSMP]

@theophanemayaud Oh, is THAT all. LOL. Is it bad that even though I've never coded anything more than config files and the like, and really don't have THAT much compiling experience, and COMPLETELY failed when I tried to compile the Windows app... I kinda want to try? LOL I actually compiled a custom version of FFmpeg and FFprobe this morning to try to get my OTHER video duplicate finder to work on Linux, and the process really was painless. With the various make tools and pretty much everything in my distro being QT5 (soon to be 6) based, who knows, I might get lucky. I'd have to have access to how you set the QT stuff up to compile it, though. That's where i lost the plot with the Windows version. I couldn't find your records on here.

Since I switched over to Solus Linuix, I have learned more about the inner workings of an operating system and how programs are actually built than I have in the 30 years I've used DOS then Windows. So... uhh, is there a bounty on this? :-D

[theophanemayaud]

Yeah compilation is quite the pain ! If you have any specific questions I’m happy to help.

[taw123]

@EldrinSMP Any chance of turning your build into a Container? Would be a lifesaver for those of us trying to run it on a NAS or other Linux system in Docker.

I've been trying to get this (simili), Video Duplicate Finder, or even the old/abandoned vidup to work to no avail. I am/was actually a s/w Engineer for years (at a slightly known fruit company) so I am not COMPLETELY without skills though it has been years...

Having also worked in Evangelism for years I have no qualms about happily PURCHASING Simili but unfortunately you don't have a version that runs natively on Linux (thus my comment about creating a container). I am looking to use this (or something that actually supports QSV hardwire decode) to search for similar video content natively on my NAS with an option to generate/rebuild hard links on demand to deDup. Would be nice if it also supported non-video (like perhaps DupGuru or even Czkawka (I am actually trying Czkawka now for non-video files as it's video support are a bit limited for my use).

Any hints would be helpful.

Thanks for all the efforts!
--T

[EldrinSMP]

@taw123 I unfortunately haven't had any time to work on this, as you can see I'm just now getting back to it. I actually purchased this program for Windows... and then a month later jumped ship to Linux and haven't looked back. LOL If you need a Linux solution you might want to try videoduplicatefinder. It's cross platform, in active development, and does a decent job of identifying duplicates. On Windows I ran it alongside Simili and between the two that caught almost everything.