[CinCV] Crash when rendering AC3

2011-03-06 Thread Ron Sparks
Good day! I updated my installation today and now Cinelerra crashes when I try to render ac3. I recall seeing this problem before but can't remember what the solution was. I recall it was an issue with ffmpeg, but I'm not sure. Some information - My system is openSuse 11.2 The rpm came from

Re: [CinCV] Crash when rendering AC3

2011-03-06 Thread E Chalaron
Hi Ron, Using both 11.2 and 11.3 I do recommend that you shift at least to 11.3 or wait a bit until it becomes available on 11.4 which is due shortly. I have too many issues on 11.2 as well. It will be upgraded to 11.4 asap. Cheers E I updated my installation today and now Cinelerra crashes

Re: [CinCV] Crash when rendering AC3

2011-03-06 Thread Ron Sparks
Hi E, Yes, I'm looking forward to the 11.4 release. I've had poor luck with the odd numbered versions of openSUSE ( 10.1, 10.3 and 11.1) so have held on to the 11.2 for quite a while. I have been able to use Cinelerra under 11.2 with very few issues. Until this update, I was able to render

Re: [CinCV] Crash when rendering AC3

2011-03-06 Thread Eli Billauer
Hi, If I were you, I would render the video using PCM coding for audio, and then use mencoder with -ovc copy to re-encode the audio to AC3. The video data will remain intact this way, and the audio meet the required format. This is not an ideal, but this step has to be taken only once -- on

Re: [CinCV] Crash when rendering AC3

2011-03-06 Thread Ron Sparks
Eli, Thanks for the suggestion. I've found that the method I've been using has worked well the last couple years. I have noticed that I can render audio to mp3 file and then merge it with video in ffmpeg. That method will work for what I'm currently doing ( some home movies of the