Re: [CinCVS] Compile problems

2007-12-04 Thread mark carter
Dan Weatherill wrote: looks like you don't have g++ installed. I'm a suse user and on my system the necessary package is called gcc-c++, on ubuntu I think it's just g++ For your configuration pleasure: http://lab.dyne.org/cinelerra/Gutsy ___ Cineler

Re: [CinCVS] Dummy's question: writing a video

2007-12-03 Thread mark carter
Craig Lawson wrote: Try: Format = MS-AVI or Quicktime for Linux Audio = Twos complement, 16 bit linear Video = MPEG-4, quantization = 5, fixed quantization Thanks Craig. I used to use render to Quicktime for Linux, but recent use has produced videos where the colours are mixed up :(

[CinCVS] DVEdit - python

2007-11-26 Thread mark carter
I almost never look at comp.lang.python, but a quick scan revealed this: I've put up an initial pre-alpha release of DVEdit - a highly pythonic free/opensource framework for scripted video editing and production. http://www.freenet.org.nz/dvedit It's in very early stages, mainly pr

[CinCVS] Pushing repos

2007-11-21 Thread Mark Carter
Cehteh, you asked me to do: git push git://git.pipapo.org/cinelerra3/mob master:heads/refs/mcarter But it didn't work :( I can push from my clone of the mob repo back to your copy of the mob repo, but I cannot push my clone of your ct branch to your copy of the mob repo. This makes sense, be

[CinCVS] Pushing to cine3 mob

2007-11-18 Thread mark carter
I made a small doc change to cine 3. I was trying to push it to mob, but no joy :( If memory serves, I first did: cloned git://git.pipapo.org/cinelerra3/ct git checkout -b mcarter Hack hack hack git commit README git push git://git.pipapo.org/cinelerra3/ct mcarter:mob But I get: fatal: The remot

Re: [CinCVS] What would motivate developers

2007-11-12 Thread mark carter
Christian Thaeter wrote: This will be done better in cin3, using extern libs if possible, try to avoid to patch common libs, I'm wondering to what extent you think extern libs might help (hopefully the answer is "a lot"). I'm presuming that Cinelerra grew up in a world where there was a paucity

Re: [CinCVS] What would motivate developers

2007-11-12 Thread mark carter
Johannes Sixt wrote: My favorite workflow actually is that we abandon svn altogether. But I don't know how our packagers can deal with such a situation. The main advantage I see to Git is that anyone can clone a repo and get their own personal checkin. I can't find the article, but some people

Re: [CinCVS] What would motivate developers

2007-11-12 Thread mark carter
Christian Thaeter wrote: Well you likely can't imagine how much kernel patches and repositories are all around and will never be merged :) .. same with git itself, when you look at the Mailinglist you see a lot of proprosals which are abadoned, thats the way free software works when it is under

Re: [CinCVS] What would motivate developers

2007-11-12 Thread mark carter
Christian Thaeter wrote: mark carter wrote: For cinelerra things are little different: If you mean HV by upstream, Primarily I meant CV - I was assuming (very dodgy assumption, I know) that HV and CV perform a cross-merge, on the basis that it's all good stuff. thats sadly tru

Re: [CinCVS] What would motivate developers

2007-11-12 Thread mark carter
Christian Thaeter wrote: some personal opinions... A list of things which I would make me happy: * More people contributing to the project. * Help coding already planned and important things * Send patches (git mob?) which fix existing issues. Looking at Cinelerra, I'm amazed at how Lin

Re: [CinCVS] gitify patches

2007-11-04 Thread mark carter
Johannes Sixt wrote: Are these available from a git repo, eg. from CT's mob repo? (http://www.pipapo.org/gitweb/cinelerra/mob) Also, please don't publish a patch series that contains fixup patches, like the last one where you say that you decide to reshuffle the .gitignore entries to sub-dire

[CinCVS] doc patches

2007-11-04 Thread mark carter
/Makefile.am @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# A good source for reference on how I (mark carter) cobbled this +# file together is to look at +# http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Texinfo + +# On Gutsy, I would expect info files to be installed in +# /usr/share/info + + + +info_TEXINFOS

[CinCVS] gitify patches

2007-11-04 Thread mark carter
I attach some patches which should improve the lot of people using git repos. I've basically added some things to .gitignore files so that you don't get useless alarms all the time. >From 432539d20679c1f06e2e626b5d48fc87991c8150 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Carter <[EMAIL

[CinCVS] Ficl patch

2007-11-03 Thread mark carter
My bad. I forgot to actually mention the wretched location for the patch. You can get it from here: http://www.luncarty.me.uk/cinelerra.htm ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cineler

[CinCVS] Scripting language support using Ficl

2007-11-03 Thread mark carter
Hey guys, I tried attaching a patch for Ficl earlier on, but it was too big for the moderator's liking. It's a 337k patch which uncompresses to about 2.2M. The patch is big because it has a lot of code in it - basically Ficl with some mods by me. I've created a patch for Cinelerra which you ca

[CinCVS] Ubuntu Gutsy build problems

2007-11-03 Thread mark carter
A recent message noted problems with the build process on Gutsy. Take a look at: http://lab.dyne.org/cinelerra/Gutsy Hopefully it will resolve all your issues. ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinu

[CinCVS] HOWTO: Downloading, building and installing Cinelerra on Gutsy

2007-10-20 Thread mark carter
I excitedly installed Gutsy on my computer this morning. One of the first things I did was attempt a build of Cinelerra. It's getting easier! I created a wiki entry here: http://lab.dyne.org/cinelerra/Gutsy I hope that people will be pleasantly surprised at the ease.

Re: [CinCVS] libcinelerra3

2007-08-25 Thread Mark Carter
From: Bradley A. Hare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Working minimal functionality that can be maintained. I might be > wrong, others > seem to have been more successful at this than I have, I just want to use Cinelerra for more casual amateur use, rather than professional. I've found Cinelerra rather

[CinCVS] libmpeg3

2007-08-25 Thread Mark Carter
I notice that Cinelerra has a directory for libmpeg3. It is giving me compilation problems - and Googling around, I don't seem to be the only one. So my question is: what's it doing there, can't we just get rid of it and use the latest version from our repos? __

Re: [CinCVS] Some of my thoughts on scripting

2007-08-25 Thread Mark Carter
I think youz guys are getting a bit bogged down in the argument. My point about the switching wasn't about them being time-critical (the check_sig() functions are going to be taking up most of the time anyway), but that the code was a bit of a mess and a more elegant solution was available, and

Re: [CinCVS] libcinelerra3

2007-08-25 Thread Mark Carter
> I would worry about the architecture of the thing first. Right > now the code extremely tangled with many opportunities for > non-deterministic behavior. I assume that's why everyone is arguing > about a re-write. My own opinion is that a re-design is > needed first. HV is undoubtedly a

Re: [CinCVS] Some Ficl documentation for you

2007-08-25 Thread Mark Carter
From: Martin Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hopefully, you just need FICL running in its own thread. You guys really like your threads, n'est pas? I have a feeling that they'll be too hard for me to understand, though. I like to approach things from the angle of simplicity and debuggability. I

Re: [CinCVS] Some of my thoughts on scripting

2007-08-25 Thread Mark Carter
Nah ;) Suppose you wanted to define an "interface" - I think C++ calls them pure virtual classes. Well, in that case, work out what functions are required, then create a table of vectors. In file.C, for example, if it doesn't know the file format, it does a whole lot of specialised check_sig(

Re: [CinCVS] Some Ficl documentation for you

2007-08-24 Thread Mark Carter
Not to mention the fact that threads scare me bigtime. From what I've heard, I'm right to be scared. A separate window is a logical idea, with an "eval on enter" handler. Don't forget, though, that you can't guarantee how long a word takes to execute. It could load other files, and conceivably

[CinCVS] Some Ficl documentation for you

2007-08-24 Thread Mark Carter
ICL (Forth Inspired Command Language) is a way to script your Cinelerra programs. It was introduced in August 2007 by Mark Carter - and as at that date, very little support for the internals of Cinelerra is available. It does, however, incorporate a full Forth programming language lightly adapted from th

Re: [CinCVS] Some of my thoughts on scripting

2007-08-24 Thread Mark Carter
don't say /etc, that's far far too straightforward ;) ). - Original Message From: Stefan de Konink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cinelerra@skolelinux.no Sent: Friday, 24 August, 2007 1:25:24 PM Subject: Re: [CinCVS] Some of my thoughts on scripting On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Mark Car

Re: [CinCVS] Some of my thoughts on scripting

2007-08-24 Thread Mark Carter
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cinelerra@skolelinux.no Sent: Friday, 24 August, 2007 9:37:05 AM Subject: Re: [CinCVS] Some of my thoughts on scripting On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 08:15 +, Mark Carter wrote: > Nah ;) > > C++ couples functions and data, C decouples them. And decoupling > rocks

Re: [CinCVS] Some of my thoughts on scripting

2007-08-24 Thread Mark Carter
Nah ;) C++ couples functions and data, C decouples them. And decoupling rocks. At least that's what the adverts say. Also - and I've seen this before on a different project - if you're doing something like handling different classes of say, file readers, in C++ you have to resort to a lot of s

[CinCVS] Some of my thoughts on scripting

2007-08-23 Thread Mark Carter
Well, I've been thinking about my scripting idea further. I've decided to experiment with ECL, too - Embedded Common Lisp. What's the big idea? Well, ECL provides a FFI. So, I could interface ECL with Cinelerra. But it goes further than that in 2 ways: * the FFI that you use with ECL could be co

[CinCVS] cehteh - my public RSA

2007-08-23 Thread Mark Carter
Sorry to bother you cehteh, but I've changed my public RSA key, so now I can't log into your server. I don't have a record of your email address, so if you could send it, I can email it to you. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Re: [CinCVS] A vision of Cinelerra v3 (hopefully)

2007-08-20 Thread Mark Carter
arated. Nice stuff. I imagine this 'libcinelerra' will be of great help if someone were to experiment with new GUI concepts at some point in the future. I haven't been following the discussion on IRC, but in my opinion this seems also like a prime example for the new scripting

[CinCVS] ct branch: ar: ./cinelerra/data/theme.o: No such file or directory

2007-08-16 Thread mark carter
Hi there cehteh. I had downloaded your ct branch a couple of weeks ago. I thought I'd give it another investigation. When I try to do a make from the top level dir, I get ar cru libcinelerradata.a ./cinelerra/data/theme.o ar: ./cinelerra/data/theme.o: No such file or directory :(

Re: [CinCVS] WHERE CINELERRA IS GOING? ...anyone? proposal for CinelerraCV 2 maintenace

2007-08-16 Thread mark carter
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 16:37 +0800, Martin Ellison wrote: > > Could you explain this more? svn allows branching, so why not just > create as many development branches as required and work there? git allows a project to be forked easily, whereas svn is geared towards central command. svn requires

Re: [CinCVS] WHERE CINELERRA IS GOING? ...anyone? proposal for CinelerraCV 2 maintenace

2007-08-16 Thread mark carter
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 16:37 +0800, Martin Ellison wrote: > > Could you explain this more? svn allows branching, so why not just > create as many development branches as required and work there? > > I do not know git, so could you please explain what git has over svn? > (Not intended as an attack

Re: [CinCVS] WHERE CINELERRA IS GOING? ...anyone? proposal for CinelerraCV 2 maintenace

2007-08-15 Thread mark carter
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 19:36 +0200, Christian Thaeter wrote: > 2) Stop using SVN I just saw a YouTube vid by Linus who is talking about git: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 > Even if commit access is generously handled to people who ask, it's > still a big blocker as I explained earlier

Re: [CinCVS] WHERE CINELERRA IS GOING? ...anyone?

2007-08-15 Thread Mark Carter
From: Christian Thaeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The SVN was declared to be following HV and staying mergeable, hence I > started my 'ct' branch where developers can work without this brakeshoe. If I understand correctly: * Cinelerra-CV is the ct branch, and the ct branch is considered "stable" * Ubu

Re: [CinCVS] WHERE CINELERRA IS GOING? ...anyone?

2007-08-15 Thread Mark Carter
I think this is a good idea, and one that I intend to have a go on. No promises, of course. After playing for a little while, I realised that it was going to be trickier than I first thought. Looking at flip - the simplest plugin - one sees that one has to worry about threads, and whether one is

Re: [CinCVS] WHERE CINELERRA IS GOING? ...anyone?

2007-08-15 Thread Mark Carter
One of my fears about cinelerra is that there are a lot of git code branches out there, each doing its own thang, and I wonder how much good effort will ultimately be effectively wasted. Looking at http://www.pipapo.org/pipawiki/Cinelerra/GitBranches is enough to make most people's head swim at w

Re: [CinCVS] WHERE CINELERRA IS GOING? ...anyone?

2007-08-15 Thread Mark Carter
> i am a bit pissed about any system and written > http://www.pipapo.org/pipawiki/BuildingSoftware , Your comment made me think of Lisp, and how it already has a packaging system. I'm no Lisper, though. Whenever I've tried to use it, I generally think, "oh hell, why don't I just do it in Python

Re: [CinCVS] What I've been up to

2007-08-14 Thread Mark Carter
l /could/ bring Cinelerra down. - Original Message From: David McNab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cinelerra@skolelinux.no Sent: Monday, 13 August, 2007 10:22:15 PM Subject: Re: [CinCVS] What I've been up to On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 21:41 +0100, mark carter wrote: > Feel free to drool

[CinCVS] What I've been up to

2007-08-13 Thread mark carter
Just thought I'd tell you guys what I've been working on, to get you interested. Well, I've commited some "less than perfect code" to my git repository, which I've cleaned up as I went along. It should be compilable at each commit, though. So, if you see some stuff and thought "that's a load of cr

Re: [CinCVS] #cinelerra irc channel usage

2007-08-13 Thread mark carter
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 14:17 +0200, Christian Thaeter wrote: > * Things will be on google for eternity, one has to fear that things he > saied could be misinterpreted out of context. And nobody wants to end up like this guy (humorous link): http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df9601/df960124.jpg

Re: [CinCVS] A working scripting interface

2007-08-12 Thread mark carter
On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 08:12 +1200, David McNab wrote: > What I would strongly suggest is that as you flesh this out, split your > interface into 2 layers: > > 1. lower-level C API, abstract, simple, completely free of any > forth-isms > > 2. FICL layer - primitives as thin as possible,

Re: [CinCVS] Cinelerra productions

2007-08-11 Thread mark carter
On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 00:32 +0200, Jonas Wulff wrote: > The problem now is that unfourtunately we don't have the webspace > available to host the movie itself Maybe you could consider using bittorrent. ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.

Re: [CinCVS] A working scripting interface

2007-08-11 Thread mark carter
On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 08:12 +1200, David McNab wrote: > On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 15:15 +0100, mark carter wrote: > > Exciting stuff (for me anyway), but I've managed to get a scripting > > interface going in Cinelerra. It could open up a world of possibilities > > fo

Re: [CinCVS] A working scripting interface

2007-08-11 Thread mark carter
On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 17:30 +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > mark carter schreef: > > Well, it's a start, n'est pas? > > > > Interesting?? > > Sure :) Glad to hear it. Well, I'll tid

[CinCVS] A working scripting interface

2007-08-11 Thread mark carter
Exciting stuff (for me anyway), but I've managed to get a scripting interface going in Cinelerra. It could open up a world of possibilities for user scripting, building compound effects, whatever. What I've got working so far is a menu item that brings you to the script editor. You can then type s

Re: [CinCVS] Open Movie Editor

2007-08-10 Thread mark carter
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 23:32 +0800, Graham Evans wrote: > There > are many defective codec implementations which make the job harder... A user reported a bug in loading an MPEG-4 file. As I test, I find that ffmpeg didn't like the file at all, and I couldn't get good results with mencoder. I'

Re: [CinCVS] Open Movie Editor

2007-08-10 Thread mark carter
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 12:57 +0200, Herman Robak wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:53:28 +0200, Gordon JC Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:31 +0100, mark carter wrote: > > > >> Cinelerra is hard to grasp intuitively first off

Re: [CinCVS] Open Movie Editor

2007-08-10 Thread mark carter
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 12:33 +0200, Herman Robak wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:31:12 +0200, mark carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > A thought: when you load a file in with iMovie, it actually "imports" it > > - converting it into its own format

Re: [CinCVS] Open Movie Editor

2007-08-10 Thread mark carter
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 17:10 +1200, David McNab wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 12:03 +0200, Herman Robak wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:02:06 +0200, Raffaella Traniello > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> From the Manual: > > > "Cinelerra is not intended for consumers. [...] > > > > I

Re: [CinCVS] Open Movie Editor

2007-08-08 Thread mark carter
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 21:59 +0200, Christian Thaeter wrote: > I didn't meant that this way, for myself I am rather pro C (or using a > real high level language). I'd rather meant fixes should be done in > proper C++ way when the whole sourcefile is C++, for consistency and > robustness. I really a

Re: [CinCVS] Req: Cinelerra plugin architecture

2007-08-08 Thread mark carter
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 11:27 +0800, Martin Ellison wrote: > It would be nice to have a common plugin interface that could work > across Cinelerra, Blender, Kino etc etc, Don't forget Avidemux ;) I've used that on a number of occasions, and it seems a nice bit of software. > so that the work of w

Re: [CinCVS] Open Movie Editor

2007-08-08 Thread mark carter
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 20:02 -0500, Daniel Jircik wrote: > I've been using cinelerra in a production environment for a few years > now and really the only instability issues I've had were when doing > something blatantly wrong or mis configured. Is there a format that the pros use that has good sup

[CinCVS] Some development work I'd like to do

2007-08-07 Thread mark carter
I'd like to do some development work on Cinelerra. But I'd kind of like to know that my work wont just lie around unpatched if I do it. So cehteh's comments are particularly apropos here. What I propose to start off with are the check_sig() functions in each file loader. Nice and easy to begin wit

Re: [CinCVS] Req: Cinelerra plugin architecture

2007-08-07 Thread mark carter
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 18:26 +0200, Jonas Wulff wrote: > Unfourtunately every major change of the codebase makes it harder to > re-merge with the 'official' cinelerra version. That of course leads to > the questions how important that *really* is, considering that cinCV > seems to be the version mo

Re: [CinCVS] Req: Cinelerra plugin architecture

2007-08-07 Thread mark carter
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 11:35 +1200, David McNab wrote: > Thoughts? Well, I've been thinking about the whole business of file loading. Although I'm completely new to Cinelerra and its development, I've had a scratch around the file loading. My basic thinking is that I think a lot of things are "t

Re: [CinCVS] Open Movie Editor

2007-08-07 Thread mark carter
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 11:15 +1200, David McNab wrote: > On the positive side, the developer's use of FLTK for the GUI is wise, > he has a very fast responsive interface. Also, having everything on one > window is nice. His window layout is very good. I have yet to test it out, but from what I've

Re: [CinCVS] Open Movie Editor

2007-08-06 Thread mark carter
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 17:29 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > On Monday August 6 2007 4:19:54 pm mark carter wrote: > > In my travels I came across Open Movie Editor. There's a demo > I'm curious - did you try this software before posting the above? > I am asking because I

[CinCVS] Open Movie Editor

2007-08-06 Thread mark carter
In my travels I came across Open Movie Editor. There's a demo of it over on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ljEb1PdEdM The main website is: http://openmovieeditor.sourceforge.net/HomePage A cinelerra beater, perhaps?? ___ Cinelerra mailing lis

[CinCVS] Anyone care to comment on class FFMPEG?

2007-08-06 Thread mark carter
I see that cinelerra/ffmpeg.C exists - but it does not appear to be linked in file.C as a detectable format. This seems a pity, because I understand it that ffmpeg can support a wide range of files and codecs. Wouldn't class FFMPEG "solve" a lot of our file loading problems? Comments? __

[CinCVS] What is a VFrame?

2007-08-06 Thread mark carter
I've been trying to puzzle this out - and it seems easier to ask. What is a VFrame? ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra

Re: [CinCVS] Pondering quicktime bugs

2007-08-06 Thread mark carter
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:34 +0100, mark carter wrote: > I'm just throwing my thoughts > out there. I've been thinking about this. I might try to to a bit of re-architecting. My problem is I know diddly-squat about threads, processes, and IPC. And I'm thinking that might be a

[CinCVS] Pondering quicktime bugs

2007-08-06 Thread mark carter
The last couple of days I have been pondering bug 408: Cine crashes when loading mp4 files. it doesn't with the same file in avi. The bug is reproducible, I just can't find out what's causing it. I'm thinking that threads are complicating the whole issue, and I'm thinking about ripping out some of

[CinCVS] git-fetch "cannot get the repository state"

2007-08-06 Thread mark carter
Am I doing something wrong? I do % git-checkout origin % get-fetch Cannot get the repository state from git://git.pipapo.org/cinelerra/mob ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerr

Re: [CinCVS] first not enough configured memory

2007-07-23 Thread mark carter
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 20:07 -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote: > When I try to enter as a permanent change I get permission denied. I > used sudo and I am working as root I am using the single quotes is that > correct? No. don't use the single quotes. The filename is /etc/sysctl.cong > For a perman

Re: [CinCVS] about assembler errors in mmx code

2007-07-19 Thread Mark Carter
I've been trying to get cinelerra 3 compiling, so far without success. It's going wrong at: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../.. -I../../../../../pipapo.org/quicktime/ffmpeg/libavcodec/i386 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DHAVE_MMX -DUSE_MMX -DX86_CPU -DHAVE

Re: [CinCVS] Error: FileMOV:read_frame(VFrame*): quicktime_read_frame/quicktime_decode_video failed

2007-07-18 Thread Mark Carter
I think this is bug 343: http://bugs.cinelerra.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343 I'm a n00b to cinelerra and its development, and I had hoped to take a crack at the bug. So far, I have been unable to compile cinelerra (3) with sufficient debugging information to determine the problem. I had managed to cre