September 2026 - Cin - Cinelerra-GG Mailing Lists

reference patch in MLT tree for ffmpeg 9
by Andrew Randrianasulu 12 Sep '26

12 Sep '26

https://github.com/mltframework/mlt/pull/1281/changes/68bceba12a3c3278ce690… of course ffmpeg devs invented yet another way to get supported sample/pixel formats out of codec internals .... Will try to make mplayer work first, then may be cinelerra.

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Few more patches for cingg on Linux/ppc
by Andrew Randrianasulu 05 Sep '26

05 Sep '26

As promised long ago I tried to make adding -latomic and disabling vsx in our x264 for case where it does not work (older PPC processors) automatic. I think I hit problem with our lv2 (lilv/suil) not picked up if system ones do not present at compile time, but this is another problem I'll try to solve. For now can you test attached four patches and make sure they do not break anything else (x86/amd64)? I tried them on Termux/aarch64 and here they seems to be harmless.

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OT: whisper.cpp works on powermac G5!
by Andrew Randrianasulu 03 Sep '26

03 Sep '26

I was trying to find any use for those large language models and found whole site with autotranscribed WWDC videos. I looked into whisper.cpp and after some bugreporting it installs and works even on 20 years old processor! https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/117/206/767/104/645/6… I used base model: wget https://huggingface.co/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/resolve/main/ggml-base.en.bin\… and "jfk.mp3" sample (real classic!): wget https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/raw/refs/heads/master/samples/jfk.m… I think in my case without any acceleration and just 2 2GHZ cores it processed 11 seconds in 126 or so seconds,so def. not realtime, but a) there are turbo variants of model b) usually people have more powerful machines with gpu, so may be it can be used for auto-transcribing some long lecture or somesuch. This speech-to-text was promised LONG ago and I guess only now, after serious sacrifices in terms of energy and other damages by Big Bro Tech, actually becoming usable ... :/ But I figured if I used OCR for all those 25 years I can use this STT engine too, at least for testing.

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Video editor on browser with AI
by Andrea paz 02 Sep '26

02 Sep '26

If anyone is interested in trying out a browser-based video editor that uses AI: https://github.com/MartinDelophy/ai-video-editor I don't think it's very reliable when it comes to privacy...

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