Andrea, that is GREAT NEWS as I was very worried about AppImage not working.
Is it possible to create a generally valid script to replace the one mentioned in the manual?
Probably, but I do now know what it is.
Every time you close the client instances, if you want to redo the render farm, you have to repeat the associations.
I never had to do this but I will try it again and see if that has changed. Will have to look at some of the other things you mentioned. It would be good for you to open a BT on the Calf plugins reload though. On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 4:06 AM Andrea paz via Cin < [email protected]> wrote:
Success! For my tests, it seems that the main problem is the script to associate all the clients with one command. Doing the associations one at a time works for me. Is it possible to create a generally valid script to replace the one mentioned in the manual?
Both the built CinGG and the AppImage WORKS for me. For the latter, perhaps because something was left in memory, I had to kill some instances of cin indicated by the command "ps -ef | grep cin".
I noticed a few things: 1- AppImage reloads calf plugins every time; associating clients extends the loading time to about 25s per client. It is advisable to disable calfs momentarily when we want to do a Render Farm (unless they are used in the project, of course). 2- If there are labels in the project to be rendered it may happen (rarely) that they are taken as render points even if they are not set. In this case it is advisable to use the In/Out Points for the whole timeline and use them as render option instead of "Whole Project". 3- Every time you close the client instances, if you want to redo the render farm, you have to repeat the associations. It is probable that we need to clean the memory from the cin processes to make it work again. You can see the processes with "ps" and then you have to kill them one by one. Now the association of the clients works without errors.
Some information about my tests: Rendering a 16 minute file (consisting of edits of Big Buck Bunny at 1080p in h264 and Tears of Steel at 1080p in VP8; CPU: 8c/16t: RAM 32GB) is rendered in:
Render Farm: 12.11 min and 47.722 fps (All threads at 100%; RAM ~10GB) No Render Farm: 35 min and 7 fps (All Threads ~30%) RF con AppImage: 12.07 min and 41.563 fps (All Threads at 100%; RAM ~10GB)
Now it remains to understand how RenderMux works because, for now, I use ffmpeg to merge the various files obtained. -- Cin mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/mailman/listinfo/cin