[Feature request] Adapt the gui for phone use

[languagemaniac]

Idea

Hi, I would love to use mkvtoolnix from my phone. I installed this in my raspberry pi in hopes that it would let me operate mkvtoolnix through the web browser on my phone, where I would upload movies and merge the audio tracks and so on.

But unfortunately this isn't possible as it doesn't let me upload from my phone's storage, but only from the pi's, and the gui makes it almost impossible to use. I understand it, as it's pretty clear that this is not designed to work like this.

However, it's the closest thing I have found to do this.

I'm kind of in a quest to find a way to do things I normally do on my pc, on my phone, via web-serving the app from a raspberry pi. I recently was able to do this with calibre (I now use calibre-web) And I'd love to do it with mkvtoolnix.

Ideally, I'd also like to be able to do the whole thing I do with the pc, which usually is extracting a 25fps movie's audio track, slowing it down to 23.976, and putting it into the high res movie, effectively having the high res movie in the desired language. (that's if the high res movie doesn't have extra scenes compared to the low res version, but that's usually not the case)

Mkv toolnix is a vital part of this process, I have yet to figure out how to do the slowing down the audio part.

I appreciate any suggestions.

Maybe this idea of adapting the gui to work on a phone is completely out of the scope of this project, but I needed to try :')

[jlesage]

Keep in mind that MKVToolNix itself is a Linux desktop application. So when you are accessing it from your phone, it's like doing a remote desktop. You can make things better by configuring a proper resolution for the application, but yes I agree that it's not the best experience.

[planetrocky]

I use this tool almost daily from my phone for tricky remuxes of multiple files; chapter edits; header edits etc. However I use the VNC interface.

I have a Raspberry Pi (quite an old one), which I very rarely use for media management. If you've installed this docker image on your Pi, have you tried using a VNC client on your phone, rather than the Web interface? It might be worth a try :)

I find the GUI useable. You can zoom in, and the screen follows the cursor. Two finger-tap for right-click etc. However if I really need to something more complex, I have to get off the Sofa and turn on my workstation.

I don't store media on my phone (I have a NAS for that), but I can trivially copy files form my phone's storage to NAS and vice versa using the phone's built-in file manager.

[planetrocky]

... You can make things better by configuring a proper resolution for the application, but yes I agree that it's not the best experience.

This is a useful tip. I actually have mine configured for the screen size of my tablet - it works OK on the phone, just more scrolling (easy as the VNC client app follows the virtual mouse pointer as you drag).