In my opinion, one possible source of BR problems is when we use CinGG
as normal users, but the default BR folder is in /tmp and thus
requires root privileges. Perhaps it would be better if CinGG created
a default folder in .../cinelerra5/cinelerra-5.1/.
or may be in .bcast5/brender_dir/ ?
While after/during dog walk I recall there is renderfarm + background render feature, so may be having some commonly-accessible place (for all users) still might be good idea.?
Anyway, path itself easy to change (even in code if you want)
in cinelerra/preferences.C
// Default brender asset
<------>brender_asset = new Asset; <------>brender_asset->audio_data = 0;
<------>brender_asset->video_data = 1;
<------>sprintf(brender_asset->path, "/tmp/brender"); <------>brender_asset->format = FILE_JPEG_LIST;
<------>brender_asset->jpeg_quality = 80;
but default socket patch also lives there, I redefined it for termux, but for generic unix/Linux distro .... may be somewhere in /var ?
Not sure if having two places to control for permissions better than one .....
My other request: is it possible to create a button that deletes all
BG image files from inside CinGG? Maybe near the input window for the
path of such files.
Yeah, I hope to make something like this, just a bit scared about accidently deleting too much (like, if I just put rm -rf there and user pointed brender dir at their $home ....). I hope to reuse idea/code from deleting indexes.
In fact, I believe that even the permanence of
files of one format are problematic when you want to change formats.
This is not an important request because when you use a format you
continue to use that format; however, it can prevent possible crashes.