Re: [CinCVS] dv grabbing (off topic)

2006-09-24 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Piotr Legiecki wrote: error message: frame dropped: timecode 00:25:27.10 date 2006.09.04 09:42:59 This error means that the ieee1394 driver received an incomplete frame. . Is it something wrong with my system? Are you using Cinelerra or dvgrab to get the data? I usually use

Re: [CinCVS] installation issue with Fedora Core 5

2006-08-09 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Matt k wrote: i am trying to install cinelerra 2.0 on ym linux box and get the following message when running the yum installer. i am 90% sure i installed the neccessary libraries. any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance, Try this: rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms

Re: [CinCVS] Cinelerra & Mpeg2

2006-08-09 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Format PresetDVD Change to DVD-NAV (Make sure it's the 8th option). -Brendan ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra

Re: [CinCVS] Mpeg2 encoding

2006-08-07 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Graham Evans wrote: I seem to remember that some really logical choices like "Format Preset: DVD" led to render errors. For me the options given above worked and I generally only fiddle with the Bitrate. One needs to use "DVD-NAV" (Type 8) rather than the "DVD" (Type 9) variant. Type 8 is t

Re: [CinCVS] titler fade out flicker

2006-07-03 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Joe Friedrichsen wrote: I've noticed that in some videos I've made as well - the background appears to change the way the title fades in. This is still different. In the sample file (http://www.f-forge.com/?d=EdD1UKgj9LQsCupcxJwR), the flicker is quite obvious - it's not coming from a contrast

Re: [CinCVS] Single (Powerful CPU with Hyperthreading) vs. SMP vs. Multiple Cinelerra Render Nodes

2006-06-22 Thread Brendan Conoboy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brendan, Why is that? It's the nature of hyperthreading. You don't actually have a second CPU core with hyperthreading, that's just how it appears. Inside the CPU there are multiple execution units. When you're running a program there are times when some of these

Re: [CinCVS] Single (Powerful CPU with Hyperthreading) vs. SMP vs. Multiple Cinelerra Render Nodes

2006-06-11 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Kevin Brosius wrote: Have you tried cinelerra on this system? Your comments seem odd, as on my dual systems, cinelerra will use both cpus (or cpu pipelines on HT machines) during rendering. For actual rendering you're likely to see a performance hit if you let the renderer use both "cpus" of

Re: [CinCVS] Hardware and Distro recommendations

2006-06-06 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Andraz Tori wrote: If you are working with DV material I am positively convinced you are using non-optimized build of libdv. I've seen this before, all you need is libdv 0.103 or newer, properly compiled for x86 Another possible thing to check is the audio output method. When I was using O

Re: [CinCVS] Pentium D 2.6 GHz or AMD Semprom 3.0 GHz

2006-05-18 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Pierre Marc Dumuid wrote: Anyone have a suggestion either way? I initially thought AMD Sempron cause as I was personally curious to see how a 64 bit machine performs, but now I am actually thinking that the dual processor may be more useful? The dual core is a quite beneficial when doing any

[CinCVS] null plugin keyframes (how to unexplode your xml files!)

2006-03-07 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Hi everyone, As a novice cinelerra user, I've run into a heinous problem every now and again. After doing some work on a video, I'll save, do some more, save for a day or two. Normally when I start up again, the xml file is a few dozen to a few hundred k. Every now and again, it's 5 me

Re: [CinCVS] defect #30 (transitions are start-of-edit only)

2006-03-01 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Dan Streetman wrote: Say I have 2 video tracks, one main track and one overlay track. The main track has all my video data and the overlay track has short bits. I want to transition into each of the short bits. No problem transitioning into them, but I can't transition out of them since tran

Re: [CinCVS] It freezes when opening any project !

2006-02-27 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Nicolas wrote: Anyone has an idea? The strace output is pretty unrevealing. You might try building with debugging enabled then running it under gdb (or attaching to it). That'll give you a better idea of where the problem is. -Brendan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) __

Re: [CinCVS] It freezes when opening any project !

2006-02-21 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Nicolas wrote: There're 1659 devices in /dev. How can I know which ones are used by cinelerra? I reduced the number of devices by not taking into account the devices in 666 mode, or devices whose group is one of the groups which the "normal" user belongs to. I get 1332 devices nodes "only". Any

[CinCVS] Best DVD target method?

2006-02-20 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Hey folks, I've scoured a bunch of sites, including some made with reference to older cinelerra versions, about how to make the best DVD possible. By best, I mean the most compatible, highest quality mpeg footage. I'd like to compare notes with others on the list who are rendering to finall

Re: [CinCVS] query on preferred Distros

2006-02-07 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Andraz Tori wrote: That is great, what would be really needed is for FC users to be able to use apt or whatever default "autoinstaller" is on FC platform... can you change your repository to become valid apt/yum ? Hmmm. Maybe. I'm not sure if anything else is necessary, but I've run yum-arc

Re: [CinCVS] query on preferred Distros

2006-02-07 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Andraz Tori wrote: Packages for other platforms are a bit more tricky thing to get if you want to be up to date. Ubuntu is built by Jure Chualev quite regularly lately. As for Redhat and SuSe, we are looking for people that would create packages regularly. I rebuild on FC4/x86_64 pretty regular

Re: [CinCVS] How to speed up Cinelerra on FC4 and others

2006-02-06 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Nicolas wrote: 30 fps when playing DV ? That's very good! When I play a video, the picture in the compositor window looks like a slide-show. It plays at around 3 or 4 fps. I render hundreds of time when working on a video. Painful, isn't it? Try playback with the audio tracks disarmed and see

[CinCVS] How to speed up Cinelerra on FC4 and others

2006-02-06 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Hi folks, For quite some time, I've been agonizing over using Hvirtual's 2.0 release vs the cvs release. The problem was the hvirtual binary did ~20FPS dv playback, but cvs only did ~6FPS. Enter oprofile. My FC4 system is more or less a stock system, plus bits from the extras, freshrpms, a

Re: [CinCVS] Is RawDV export still broken ?

2006-02-03 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Andraz Tori wrote: hmmm i've just checked there has to be a bug in your patch.. %d count and number of arguments do not match.. Oops, here's a patch for that. The theory here is that if we're doing fixed bit rate, we don't want to start talking about quantization level. Likewise, if we're

Re: [CinCVS] Is RawDV export still broken ?

2006-02-03 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Andraz Tori wrote: can you send it as attachment, and i'll commit Sure, here you go. -Brendan Index: cinelerra/filempeg.C === --- cinelerra/filempeg.C (revision 732) +++ cinelerra/filempeg.C (working copy) @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@

Re: [CinCVS] Is RawDV export still broken ?

2006-02-03 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Since it seems nobody is really benefiting by having the '-q 0' setting for mpeg video output, I propose the following patch. If there's other braindead command line arguements in there by default, we can tweak them as well. Index: cinelerra/filempeg.C

Re: [CinCVS] Is RawDV export still broken ?

2006-02-02 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Nicolas wrote: I exported as YUV4MPEG stream, used mpeg2enc to encode to mpeg2, used mplex and so on. And what I get is a jerky video which is simply horrible. Like Pierre suggested, you may be seeing the result of not using bottom field first. It's definitely a prerequisite if your footage c

Re: [CinCVS] Having fun...couple of questions...

2006-01-27 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Wesley T Allen wrote: #2. This is in the list also, someone wrote a sed script or something I recall... I personally prefer using a YUV4MPEG pipe interface for recording to mpeg, (you then become the controller of the arguments ot mpeg2enc rather than cinelerra) I'll go scour archives No

Re: [CinCVS] Cinelerra Not Processing Sound

2006-01-26 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Billy Willoughby Jr. wrote: I don't have another one installed, but I'll check it out. But MPlayer, Audacity, amaroK all seem to work fine, so I wonder if it's a sound device problem or just something I've messed up in Cinelerra. You might try removing or renaming ~/.bcast/Cinelerra_rc This

Re: [CinCVS] DVD output ?

2006-01-19 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Nicolas MAUFRAIS wrote: As anyone already done that? What rendering format should I use? I think raw DV could be fine. I could convert it to mpeg with mpeg2enc, using the same command lines I used in Kino (when it was still functionning without crashing each minute). I just use Cinellera's MPEG