---
name: "arista-gtk"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "arista"
version: "0.9.7-5"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/arista-gtk"
---

# arista-gtk(1)

graphical interface for Arista Transcoder

## NAME

arista-gtk -  graphical interface for Arista Transcoder

## SYNOPSIS

**arista-gtk**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **arista-gtk** command.

**arista** is a multimedia transcoder for the GNOME Desktop which allows user to encode audio and video streams for a wide variety of devices.

**arista-gtk** provides a simple user interface for the **arista-transcode** command.

**arista-gtk** has been written with Python and GTK+2, and after installing the application you can run it from the **Applications** menu.

## OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-').

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-v, --version**

  Show version of program.

- **-p PRESET, --preset=PRESET**

  Preset to encode to \[default\].

- **-d DEVICE, --device=DEVICE**

  Device to encode to \[computer\].

- **-s, --simple**

  Launch the simplified UI.

## SEE ALSO

[**arista-transcode**(1)](/arista-transcode/1.md).

## AUTHOR

arista-gtk was written by Daniel G. Taylor \<dan@programmer-art.org\>.

This manual page was written by Alessio Treglia \<alessio@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).