Meh, seems like a lot of extra futzing and the extracted AppImage works
just fine, I'll just adjust my launcher and work with it extracted for
now. For AV Linux I actually just take your AppImages and wrap them in a
Debian Package anyway because my ISO's are assembled one Deb at a time
and everything that goes in has to be in a Debian package format.
Perhaps a better method in general is to extract your AppImages and make
a hybrid package from the extracted AppImage. I'm aware that eLive also
does 'proper' Debian packages but I try to avoid outside Repos.. Anyway
I digress, my issue is solved for now and I'll wait and see if it makes
it into future builds.
Thanks so much again for the friendly response and the lightning-fast
solution!
Best, Glen
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On 2025-12-31 03:26, Andrew Randrianasulu via Cin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 8:17 AM AVLinux via Cin
> <cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andrew, and thanks very much!
>>
>> I'm working with the November 21 AppImage and I have extracted it and
>> I
>> assume in the AppImage the path would be
>> /squashfs-root/usr/bin/ffmpeg/video/? It seems so because I copied
>> your
>> file there and by running Cin from the extracted AppImage I
>> successfully
>> rendered a working MKV file with H.264+WAV! Is there a command I can
>> run
>> to re-compress the AppImage and get it back to it's binary form?
>
> I usually used instructions from
>
> https://download.cinelerra-gg.org/files/CinelerraGG_Manual/Build_CinGG_AppImage_from_s.html
>
> *I think* you can just put pre-existing 'bin' folder (from previously
> unpacked appimage) there
> and it will be picked up by bld_appimage.sh script.
>
> Phyllis used method with linuxdeploy, but I forgot where its upstream
> was.
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org/msg09203.html
>
>
>>
>> Thanks so much for your quick attention on this, I will wait for you
>> guys to decide if this is a future addition, in the meantime I have a
>> working solution to use!
>>
>> Nice to hear from Phyllis and Sam too!
>>
>> Best, Glen
>>
>> ---
>>
>>
>> On 2025-12-30 22:07, Andrew Randrianasulu via Cin wrote:
>> > I just copied modified h264_vaapi.mkv as h264.mkv (attached ) to
>> >
>> > /usr/share/cin/ffmpeg/video/
>> >
>> > and it seems to work with s24/s32 as sound encoder for mkv container..
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 5:53 AM Andrew Randrianasulu
>> > <randrianasulu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 5:01 AM Sam via Cin
>> >> <cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Hi Glen, nice to hear from you. I'm sorry about the forum. We are
>> >> > currently in the process of completely revamping the website, so there
>> >> > may still be some issues with certain functions. Hopefully, this will be
>> >> > resolved soon. As for the technical question, some of our supporters and
>> >> > developers will certainly be able to answer that better than I can.
>> >> > Thank you for your loyalty to Cin-GG. Happy New Year to you too.
>> >> >
>> >> > Sam
>> >> >
>> >> > Am 31.12.25 um 00:15 schrieb AVLinux via Cin:
>> >> > > Hi Cin-GG folks!
>> >> > >
>> >> > > I'm Glen from AV Linux, I had gotten busy and away from the Cin forum
>> >> > > but I'm still a hardcore Cin-GG User and I still include Cin-GG in
>> >> > > every AV Linux release. I was quite concerned when the Cin forum and
>> >> > > downloads were offline for so long and I was hoping the project was
>> >> > > still going, now I see the downloads are back but I couldn't seem to
>> >> > > log into the forum so I thought I'd just join the mailing list. Thank
>> >> > > you for all you do to keep this project going, I know it is neither
>> >> > > fun nor easy much of the time to maintain a large open-source project..
>> >> > >
>> >> > > On to my question:
>> >> > >
>> >> > > I had a read of the Cin manual about adding ffmpeg options and I'm a
>> >> > > little lost on how to do what I want, I also use and distribute the
>> >> > > AppImage version so I'd also like to avoid cracking open every
>> >> > > AppImage release to add some custom options. I do a lot of Concert
>> >> > > film restorations these days and I like to work with the Video in
>> >> > > Cin-GG and then import the Audio into Ardour so I have an unlimited
>> >> > > choice of specialized Audio Plugins and a more ideal Audio-centered
>> >> > > workflow. For my use case I really miss a MOV or MKV option to Render
>> >> > > H.264 Video + WAV Audio, this combination seems to be missing from
>> >> > > both the 'mov' and 'mkv' extension formats and H.264+WAV is a
>> >> > > completely valid spec for both MOV and MKV containers.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Mov presets live in ffmpeg/qt category, mostly.
>> >>
>> >> Try faststart_h264.qt (modify to taste) + s16le.qt/s32le.qt ?
>> >>
>> >> If I recall
>> >> > > there is an h.264_vaapi option in mkv but my Video card doesn't
>> >> > > support it.. With this Workflow I can import the whole Video file into
>> >> > > Ardour and extract the Audio and then re-mux with the edited Audio and
>> >> > > keep the MP4 Video without re-encoding the Video so this is why I'm
>> >> > > asking an H.264 Render with an uncompressed WAV for further Audio
>> >> > > editing. In general for an archiving option H.264+WAV is a decent
>> >> > > combo as well so hopefully it would also be a useful addition beyond
>> >> > > my needs.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Is it possible to get plain old H.264 + WAV in a MOV or MKV container
>> >> > > (or even both) in a future release?
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Thanks for considering and a Happy and Healthy New Year to all the
>> >> > > Cin-GG folks!!
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Best, Glen
>> >> > >
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