- None of the existing forks are completely satisfying at the moment:
- [wangqr's fork](https://github.com/wangqr/Aegisub) is actively maintained, but focussing more on stability. It's missing most of the modern features.
- [AegisubDC](https://github.com/Ristellise/AegisubDC) has the most modern features (in particular video-panning), but is Windows-only and not actively maintained anymore.
- [The TypesettingTools fork](https://github.com/TypesettingTools/Aegisub) is the one that will one day become the upstream version and builds relatively effortlessly on all operating systems, but at the moment it's not moving much. It's the base for this fork, and I hope to one day merge most of these additions into it.
- Only PR'ing the changes in here to various forks would cause even more chaos
- I try to convince myself that this isn't really a "fork" in the traditional sense - one which aims to provide extended support and stability fixes. It's a collection of new feature additions which I built myself, together with some of the most important new features floating around other forks.
While this is usually also the version of Aegisub I'm currently using, I make absolutely no promises on stability. **Don't** use this version if you're just looking for any version of Aegisub - this is mostly intended for typesetting and other advanced usage.
### Organization
Being a collection of different feature additions, this repository consists of a set of branches for different features, so that they can easily be merged into other repositories. The [`feature`](https://github.com/arch1t3cht/Aegisub/tree/feature) branch merges together all the features I deem as currently usable. Due to the structure of the repository, I will be force-pushing to this branch and some of the individual branches very frequently, so they're not ideal for basing further branches on.
The `cibuilds` branch makes some CI builds of snapshots of `feature` at relevant points in time.
- [`lua_api`](https://github.com/arch1t3cht/Aegisub/tree/lua_api): Add new functions to the Lua automation API, like controlling the selection or cursor in the text edit box
- [`vector_clip_actions`](https://github.com/arch1t3cht/Aegisub/tree/vector_clip_actions): Make the different modes of the vector clip tool (lines, bezier curves, adding points, etc) bindable to hotkeys
- [`color_picker_fix2`](https://github.com/arch1t3cht/Aegisub/tree/color_picker_fix2): Add an option (under "Interface") to restrict the color picker to the window, which fixes the color picker on Linux in a lot of cases.
- [`avisynth`](https://github.com/arch1t3cht/Aegisub/tree/avisynth): Reenable Avisynth support on Windows and enable Avisynth on Linux
- [`bestsource`](https://github.com/arch1t3cht/Aegisub/tree/bestsource): Add BestSource audio and video source. This source is slower than others by multiple orders of magnitude, but in exchange it can guarantee exact seeking.
- [`xa-ds2`](https://github.com/arch1t3cht/Aegisub/tree/xa-ds2): Add XAudio2 backend and allow stereo playback for some other backends, by wangqr and Shinon.
- [`video_panning_feature`](https://github.com/arch1t3cht/Aegisub/tree/video_panning_feature): Merge [moex3's video zoom and panning](https://github.com/TypesettingTools/Aegisub/pull/150), with an OSX fix and more options to control zoom behavior
- [`spectrum-frequency-mapping`](https://github.com/arch1t3cht/Aegisub/tree/spectrum-frequency-mapping): Merge EleonoreMizo's [spectrum display improvements](https://github.com/TypesettingTools/Aegisub/pull/94), and also make Shift+Scroll vertically zoom the audio display
- [`wangqr_time_video`](https://github.com/arch1t3cht/Aegisub/tree/wangqr_time_video): Merge wangqr's feature adding a tool for timing subtitles to changes in the video
I'll gladly take any bug reports, but if you encounter an issue, please check first if it occurs only on my fork, or also on [earlier TSTools builds](https://github.com/TypesettingTools/Aegisub/actions).
If it wasn't introduced by my fork, I can still take a look, but I can't promise anything.
You can find me for support on various servers, including the cave and the TSTools server linked below.
#### Building fails with a "CMake sandbox violation"
This is an upstream bug in meson. For now, you need to downgrade meson using `pip install meson==0.62.2`.
#### Aegisub on Linux doesn't recognize my GTK theme
This is probably because you're building with wxgtk2. Building with wxgtk3 fixes this, but causes some problems of its own (notably the broken color picker, occasional crashes when opening file dialogs from automation scripts, and general layouting issues).
The exact way of switching depends on your Linux distribution, but essentially you need to ensure that `wx-config` or the next best variant of it points to wxgtk3. If it points to wxgtk2 by default and deinstalling wxgtk2 isn't an option, you can also temporarily move it out of the path. Then, fully reconfigure meson using `meson configure --clearcache` and `meson setup --reconfigure`.
#### I get errors like "Option not found" after merging one of these branches
The changes to `default_config.json` or similar files weren't detected by meson due to missing regen dependencies. You can either merge the `bugfixes` branch or rebuild from scratch.
This is probably due to the ffms2 seeking bug ([#394](https://github.com/FFMS/ffms2/issues/394)). On Windows, this specific regression shouldn't happen anymore. On Linux, you need to install the latest git version of ffms2 - for example the [`ffms2-git`](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ffms2-git) AUR package on Arch linux, or just compile it yourself.
If it's not because of this particular bug, you can also try an alternative video source like LSMASHSource via Avisynth or Vapoursynth, or BestSource.
For compilation on Windows, see the TSTools documentation below. Also check the [GitHub workflow](https://github.com/arch1t3cht/Aegisub/blob/cibuilds/.github/workflows/ci.yml) for the project arguments.
On Linux, you can use the [TSTools PKGBUILD](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aegisub-ttools-meson-git) as a base, in particular for installing the necessary dependencies if you don't want to compile them yourself.
To compile manually,
- Install Meson (at the moment, you'll need to downgrade Meson below 0.63.0: `pip install meson==0.62.2`)
- Clone the repository
- In the repository, run `meson setup build` for the default configuration. See below for further options.
-`cd` to the `build` directory and run `ninja`
- You'll get an `aegisub` binary in the `build` folder. To install it to a system-wide location, run `ninja install`. To install to `/usr` instead of `/usr/local`, pass `--prefix=/usr` when configuring or reconfiguring meson.
- When recompiling after pulling new commits, skip the `meson setup` setup and just immediately run `ninja` from the build directory - even when the build configuration changed.
#### Compilation flags
Some features are not enabled by default. To enable them, pass `-D<feature>=enabled` with the `meson setup` command:
-`-Davisynth=enabled`: Avisynth support
-`-Dbestsource=enabled`: BestSource
-`-Dvapoursynth=enabled`: Vapoursynth support
You can also disable options that are active by default in the same way. Check the file `meson_options.txt` for all options.
To change the options of an existing build directory, run `meson setup --reconfigure <new arguments>` from inside the `build` directory.
### Dependencies
Apart from the dependencies for the TSTools version, there are some additional dependencies. These are cloned and compiled from scratch if not found, but you might want to install binaries instead:
-`jansson`: For BestSource
-`ffmpeg`: Becomes a direct dependency when compiling with BestSource
-`avisynth` (or `avisynthplus`): Optional run-time dependency for the Avisynth source
-`vapoursynth`: Optional run-time dependency for the VapourSynth source
2. From the Visual Studio "x64 Native Tools Command Prompt", generate the build directory: `meson build -Ddefault_library=static` (if building for release, add `--buildtype=release`)
You can generate the installer with `ninja win-installer` after a successful build. This assumes a working internet connection and installation of the optional dependencies.
From within the Moonscript repository, run `bin/moon bin/splat.moon -l moonscript moonscript/ > bin/moonscript.lua`.
Open the newly created `bin/moonscript.lua`, and within it make the following changes:
1. Prepend the final line of the file, `package.preload["moonscript"]()`, with a `return`, producing `return package.preload["moonscript"]()`.
2. Within the function at `package.preload['moonscript.base']`, remove references to `moon_loader`, `insert_loader`, and `remove_loader`. This means removing their declarations, definitions, and entries in the returned table.
3. Within the function at `package.preload['moonscript']`, remove the line `_with_0.insert_loader()`.
The file is now ready for use, to be placed in `automation/include` within the Aegisub repo.
All files in this repository are licensed under various GPL-compatible BSD-style licenses; see LICENCE and the individual source files for more information.
The official Windows and OS X builds are GPLv2 due to including fftw3.
