On the homepage, another video is displayed.

Attached are the steps in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.

Spanish: https://youtu.be/p2pWR1IrKbg?si=42V-gqCjSpkYq0vl

Portuguese: https://youtu.be/OvR0IZTcxgY?si=CWJUrk-Y_4m3NDXx

Italian: https://youtu.be/F3Xo3idJZr0?si=qbt2AE-LbfghHhOc

Feel free to share any suggestions regarding the design, background music, or structure; I will gladly welcome them.

On the homepage, another video is displayed.

I’m sharing the Spanish version with you (I’m preparing the videos in multiple languages). I plan to remove the intro featuring my association’s logo to adapt them to the Spanish manual, as a proposal. I’m editing them in Camtasia, and my computer is a bit slow for these tasks, so the videos will be uploaded gradually.

Spanish version:
https://youtu.be/DnuBEMfGhoc?si=w6pj4mk5HzFNGoB4

Stopwords files:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/fxyn47lgxghwxh4n3o5eq/AJhyIj9Q1flU5CM-LkRb7rY?rlkey=b3akitnujz7ik8d7oyg5ulb71&st=8vaqwrj3&dl=0

> German: de
> English: en
> Spanish: es
> French: fr
> Italian: it
> Portuguese: pt

Thank you. you have been using QualCoder for a while now.
This update took a bit longer to organise, as it involved a bigger team of 4 core people (around the world) working on various aspects of it.

I did a search: 2 reasons to look at are these:
Here are two primary solutions:
1. Ensure Correct VLC Installation Location
The python-vlc module for macOS expects the VLC application to be in the standard /Applications directory.
Action: Verify that VLC.app is located in your /Applications folder. If it’s in a different location (e.g., in ~/Downloads or another custom folder), drag and drop it into /Applications.
2. Check for Architecture Compatibility (Apple Silicon vs. Intel)
A common problem on newer Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3) Macs is installing the wrong architecture version of VLC.
Action: Ensure you have installed the correct “Apple Silicon” (ARM64) version of VLC if your Python interpreter is also Apple Silicon native, or the “Intel” (x86_64) version if you are running Python through Rosetta 2 emulation. Mismatched architectures (e.g., 64-bit Python with 32-bit VLC) will cause recognition errors.
If you are running on macOS silicone, and running the macOS executable, you might need to install the non-silicone vlc version – (just a suggestion).

Alternatively, instead of running the downloaded executable, you might be better to follow the instructions to build and run QualCoder from source code.

I downloaded QualCoder, and have downloaded 64-bit VLC for mac (which is what I have), and have not moved it from the usual place. VLC itself works and runs video/audio, but I cannot get Qual to do anything other than say “VLC not installed cannot play audio or video. Is there any troubleshooting I can do to try and fix this?

Thanks.

Thank you so much for your work on this. I have just started looking into QualCoder, tested out a few features and am overall happy with it. It crashes at the moment when I try to code a video, but I think that is fixable on my side with some more looking into it. Text and image coding seem to work great out of the box.

This is a really valuable contribution to the community. The pricing for commercial QDA software is just ridiculous, and the software quality is terrible. There is such an urgent need for a good open source alternative. Thank you for all the work you have already put into this.

I have one suggestion, though. Maybe you could think about ways to help people fund your project. I don’t know, but perhaps you like to keep this as a hobby side project so you don’t want to have the pressure that people paid for it and now you have to deliver. Or maybe you feel uncomfortable asking for money, and I get that. But even if I look through the website explicitly for a way to donate, I don’t find anything. Think about it, maybe you can just give people the option to buy you more time to work on this, without begging all the time! In addition to that: Given that a major user group of this are institutions like universities, you could think of ways to help faculty members fund your project without forcing everyone into a paid subscription plan. I think limesurvey and zotero do a good job with that, for example. You can use them for free on your own hardware, and buy additional cloud services with money, part of which goes into the development. This way, if I have some research budget that I would otherwise perhaps spend on one of the big QDA packages, I could instead fund your project (which I would greatly prefer!). A web interface would be one option and potentially help with collaboration, for example. Or maybe just a data synchronization option as a backup. Maybe extra plugins that go beyond basic features. Just some way for us to funnel money into the development.

Although it already works great, there are lots of open issues here of course. For example it would be great to have a UX designer/researcher look into this occasionally, or making it easier to install for non-technical people.

Best wishes,

Ali