[Cin] Help with performance problems

[daniel-cinelerra-gg at opayq.com]

Thank you all for your help!  I've tried your suggestions and things have
improved somewhat (although unfortunately, I don't know exactly what action
made the biggest difference).  I have successfully updated to the current
version of Cinelerra in the repositories.

I've done some additional testing and found strange results.  All of my
testing was performed with the FFMPEG>Youtube>hd_h264.youtube preset.

As a baseline, timeline playback with both 4k and 1080p runs at full
framerate, or nearly full framerate (as long as no effects are enabled).

Rendering a 4k video from a friend's camera with no effects takes about
double real time.  Bitrate on this video is 95MB/s

Rendering a 1080p video from my own camera, transcoded with ffmpeg to
reduce bitrate to 10MB/s (native bitrate for this camera is unnecessarily
extremely high) takes about triple real time.  This makes no sense to me
since the source data rate for the 1080p files is so much lower, but
perhaps my method of transcoding on file ingestion is faulty, and is
creating problems for Cinelerra?

Here is the command line I'm using to transcode when ingesting from my
camera: -vcodec libx264 -preset fast -b:v 8000k -acodec copy

Regarding HW acceleration, anything other than 'none' produces no output in
the compositor and no video output in rendered files (although they sure
render quickly!).

Here's my video hardware:

05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108GL
[Quadro 600] [10de:0df8] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company GF108GL [Quadro 600] [103c:0835]
Physical Slot: 2
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42, NUMA node 0
Memory at ee000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at e8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at c000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>

As a side note, I've tried the 'Transcode' option and it broke my projects,
gradually replacing videos on the timeline with videos which produced only
a black screen.  I couldn't figure out how to backtrack and had to delete
all configuration files and reinstall Cinelerra to fix this.  Any advice?

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 6:03 AM Phyllis Smith  <
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> As you can see from the responses already, there are a lot of factors that
> can affect render times! But I do not see this in a 720x576 video that I
> rendered with file format ffmpeg/mp4.  It was a 4 minute video and took
> only 32 seconds to render.  You can see in the attached file with another
> window running "top" that shows %CPU = 1149 (so while rendering it is using
> 11 1/2 cpus out of 16).  You can see on the timeline that the video is
> about 4 minutes long and you can see in the lower left hand bottom corner,
> that Rendering took...0.32 seconds.
>
> In Settings->Preferences, Performance tab I have Cache set to 4096 and SMP
> cpu count set to 16.  I have not looked at your screenshot in detail yet,
> but will try to do so tomorrow.  In the Render menu, using the Video
> wrench, I chose h264.mp4.  I will also try on a 1080p video.
>
>>
>> I am getting what I consider to be very slow render times and wanted to
>> know if something is set up wrong.
>>
>> As a test, I imported a 1080p video from my camera, looped it several
>> times and rendered it with no effects or compositing.  For a 4 minute video
>> it took about 12 minutes to render as an .mp4.
>>
>> CPU usage never went above 23% and memory usage never went above 19%.
>>
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