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Mailing lists no send email to me
by Igor BEGHETTO 22 Jun '26

22 Jun '26

Hi, I am seeing that there are messages in the Mailing Lists Web Archive that I haven't received (from July 1). The last message I received is dated May 31. Into the Spam there are not messages. Van you help me about? Thanks! IgorBeg PS: And this my message is a test to see if it will be send to me from the mailing lists.

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Batchrender patch
by Andrea paz 21 Jun '26

21 Jun '26

I was wondering if Andrew's patch for batch rendering (batchrender_postmerge_xml_check.diff) is already in Git. Even though it fixes a very rare issue, I think it's useful because it prevents us from corrupting the (non-XML) file we're targeting. I recall that if we run a command-line render and mistakenly target any file other than the XML project file, that file gets completely corrupted. PS: It seems to me that it also handles simple command-line rendering, not just batch rendering.

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Surprising to see Cinelerra mentioned in AI
by Phyllis Smith 17 Jun '26

17 Jun '26

I realize that most people do not like Google's AI output when you do a search, but I was surprised to see mention of "Cinelerra" in the output when I did a lookup of "AudioOSS::open_output: No such file or directory". P.S. I made the Cinelerra below in Huge letters just so it would stand out. AI Overview This error usually means the application is trying to use legacy Open Sound > System (OSS) drivers, or an audio device is missing or misconfigured. [1 > <https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70526>] > 1. Update the Audio Driver/Output Plugin > Many applications default to OSS. If you are on a modern Linux > distribution, you should switch your backend to *PulseAudio* or *ALSA*. [1 > <https://askubuntu.com/questions/366211/cmus-error-opening-audio-device-no-s…>, > 2 > <https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/3cwqcp/cmus_error_opening_…> > ] > > - *For command-line players like cmus:* Open the application's > configuration and update the output plugin: > > > > - :set output_plugin=pulse (or alsa) > - *For GUI programs (like **Cinelerra**):* Look through the > Preferences or Settings panel and change the "Audio Driver" to PulseAudio, > ALSA, or PipeWire instead of OSS. [1 > <https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=114314>, 2 > <https://askubuntu.com/questions/366211/cmus-error-opening-audio-device-no-s…> > ] > >

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mjpeg capture from webcam
by Andrew Randrianasulu 15 Jun '26

15 Jun '26

Hello all! I am not dead, just playing around with my old new powerpc toy ;) Unfortunately big endian machines quite rare thing today so some bugs creept in. But after filing some bugreports I decided to see how it works with my yesteryear webcam. Well, default ffmpeg -i /dev/video0 uses uncompressed YUV2 stream and framerate drops to 10 fps for 720p and to 5 fps for 1080p ffmpeg -s 1920x1080 -pix_fmt mjpeg -i /dev/video0 -c:v copy -f mov -frames 900 ~/camera.mov this line one the other hand captures at 50 fps, 12.6 mbytes per second ;) I really need to fix our mjpeg capture ...

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More big endian fixes ?
by Andrew Randrianasulu 05 Jun '26

05 Jun '26

So I was having a blast (esp. in open firmware ;) ) with my new G5. Compiled Cinelerra-gg on Slackware ~current ppc32 (gcc 15.2.0). But sadly sound was broken? I suspected ffmpeg but even native way sounded wrong, but rendered correctly?! Turned out both ALSA and Pulseaudio hardcoded LE variant, and at least on Slackware alsa offered BE variant - picked by speaker-test utility. I added code to use this or old variant depending on BC_Resources::little_endian and it seems to sound fine now on both outputs? Can you please test on le ? (usual intel/arm)

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Finalized new server website + updated AppImages and release notes
by Phyllis Smith 31 May '26

31 May '26

Of course, the big news for the month of May is all of the work that Sam did on finalizing/updating the cinelerra-gg.org website on a new server. This was very much appreciated because the original server/format was put into effect in 2018. AppImages have been updated. The month of May release notes portion is below and I apologize if I forgot to get everything in there that was done. ********** Release Notes ********** GIT for Cinelerra-GG has the following changes from 05/01/2026-05/31/2026 *Website major work by Sam:* Totally updated www.cinelerra-gg.org website released on new server on May 12. As previously announced you can now easily get to the location you need via the website or use these directly: - Mailing list cin(a)lists.cinelerra-gg.org - Bug tracker bug.cinelerra-gg.org - Download server download.cinelerra-gg.org - Git server git.cinelerra-gg.org *Mail *was moved from a third-party provider to Mailcow on the server on 5/1. Advantages include: - Independence from external providers. - Full control over spam filtering, DKIM, archives. - One server, one bill, simpler administration long-term. - Better integration with the new Discourse Forum which sends notification mail through this server. *Forum* has been switched from WordPress to Discourse – a much better supported modern, dedicated forum connected directly to Mail. This has the same advantages as listed above for Mail. IgorB contributed an image for the website that was less confusing without console/multi-monitors. *Andrew-R work:* - Accept “q” as an additional option in the tipwindow to close in addition to current ESC, w, RETURN. - Remove turbojpeg-specific library build from turbojpeg which is not being used in CinGG. - *Updated x265* from 4.0 to 4.2 which now includes enabling of HEVC alpha encoding with addition of render format: h265_alpha.mp4. - A new command line switch “-l” has been added with the default working the same as before without using this new “-l” parameter; that is the default of the “l” loadmode of “replace current”. The most Useful values to set are 2 to load concatenated on one track (for jpegs) or 6 to load as resources only. Example usage: bin/cin -l 6 ~/*.jpg or bin/cin -l 2 ~/*.jpg. - Build fixes for BSD version 15.0 have been added. - There is now *lcms2* configure support for internal ffmpeg. *Andrea* tested and provided a lot of feedback as a result. This option defaults to auto and was tested as working with lcms2 2.18. Probably additional testing and usage is needed. - Simple *opencolorio* enable for ffmpeg is also now available but has not been tested to any extent.

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Patch: build fixes for FreeBSD 15.0
by Andrew Randrianasulu 26 May '26

26 May '26

I decided to try new BSD and of course something changed since last time I tried, spend some time troubleshooting configure script, turned out echo as built in and echo as /bin/echo behave differently! So I hope I fixed our scripts without breaking Linuxes. I patched cingg on Termux and there configure appeared and worked.

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Compilation fails on input/lavf.c x264
by Stefan de Konink 26 May '26

26 May '26

input/lavf.c: In function 'codec_from_stream': input/lavf.c:65:22: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers] 65 | AVCodec *codec = avcodec_find_decoder( stream->codecpar->codec_id ); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ input/lavf.c: In function 'read_frame_internal': input/lavf.c:144:36: error: 'AVFrame' has no member named 'interlaced_frame' 144 | info->interlaced = h->frame->interlaced_frame; | ^~ input/lavf.c:145:36: error: 'AVFrame' has no member named 'top_field_first' 145 | info->tff = h->frame->top_field_first; | ^~ -- Stefan

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Totally updated cinelerra-gg.org webiste is live!!!
by Phyllis Smith 24 May '26

24 May '26

Great news! Check it out! Sam has once again outdone himself! cinelerra-gg.org

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Tested nvenc profile on GT 710, it works.
by Andrew Randrianasulu 21 May '26

21 May '26

Hello all. I *finally* hauled home another desktop bought second hand, and installed my "old" GeForce 710 in it. Installed some version of Slackel ( Slackware -current from nov 2023) on it, and partially updated it. Installed proprietary 470 drivers from Slackbuilds.org link (280 mb!). There was not enough headers to compile this driver, so I compiled kernel first with its embedded config (modprobe configs, zcat /proc/config.gz > .config, make in Linux source tree). After around two hours on this Sandybridge -era i5 at 3.19Ghz + 4gb ram + mechanical 250 gb sata drive formatted as ext4 I got my kernel and proprietary driver installed, escaped world of 640*480 into my glorious 1400*900 native resolution. Compiled cingg from git, in around 45 minutes. Loaded few videos I downloaded from samples.mplayerhq.hu, tried h264 nvenc (I was careful to replace ffnvheaders with our old 2020 version, thankfully provided in tree.) At first it was failing at 97%, but then I realized all failing vids set cingg correctly to interlaced mode, as they were interlaced. Progressive 720p 60 fps mpeg2 dreamtime.mpg from HDTV folder played ok, and encoded with nvenc at around 73 fps. So, new toy is a bit noisy and can heat up to 85 C under full load, but now I hopefully can test for regressions on this front again. Also compiled qemu from git (it worked) and cinelerra-cv from my fork at github (Randrianasulu/cinelerra-cv-randrik, branch "wip"). Its mpeg decoder worked when compiled on older glibc 2.30+ gcc 5.5.0 based Slackware, but crashed under Debian 11 (glibc 2.31,gcc 10.something) and this not completely current -current Slackware with gcc 13.2.0 . I tried to debug this, but no success so far. Otherwise it works, mostly on pre-converted to mjpeg + pcm .mov files with help of modern ffmpeg. At some point I'll manually switch my keyboard, mouse and monitor back to main machine, they both know how to "sleep" properly, so I can leave them in such state and wake up from keyboard (this function was problematic on many other previous computers I used). Sorry, no video for now - this tablet definitely developed some blurred region on its plastic lens cover at back camera. May be I'll make some self-recording with cingg on destop later.

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