[Cin] Testing Appimage with OneVPL and QSV presets on legacy Intel hardware

Tue Dec 10 00:16:46 CET 2024

Just an easy fix.  I downloaded the latest appimage and will upload it to
the website tomorrow and put a note in News.  I will do this when I power
up the desktop and check in Andrew's 5 patches.

On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 4:05 PM Terje J. Hanssen <terjejhanssen at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Den 09.12.2024 20:31, skrev Phyllis Smith:
>
> In trying to determine where the error is, I was not able to ascertain
> where things went wrong so I started from scratch to get the steps correct.
> Although I can say for sure that the last error of:
>
>> Alt+h
>> sh: line 1: /home/cinelerra/cinelerra-5.1/bin/doc/ContextManual.pl: No
>> such file or directory
>>
> is for sure telling me that the default file, which is part of the
> original source and you should still see in
> /home/cinelerra/cinelerra-5.1/doc, is missing in
> /home/cinelerra/cinelerra-5.1/bin/doc; that is ContextManual.pl. Something
> must have gotten deleted or not copied to AppDir/usr in its entirety.
>
> If it is not too much trouble, I would do a fresh build and only then
> execute directly "in the bin/doc directory":
>    tar xvf HTML_Manual-20241031.tgz
> then before running your appimage build, check by executing "bin/cin" and
> doing Alt h.
> If that works then the copy via bld_appimage.sh should result in Help
> being automatically included.
>
> Standing by here for results.
>
>
> Actually there are three doc locations in my /Cin:
>
> ./doc
> ./bin/doc
> ./AppDir/usr/bin/doc
>
> and as the first doc folder is empty, I have a feeling I myself by
> accident cleaned up wrong doc folder.
> But what do we preserve backup for 😉
>
> Actually I found the missing file in my backup
>
> /Cin # ls /Cin/bin_use_system_ffmpeg-702/doc/ContextManual.pl
> /Cin/bin_use_system_ffmpeg-702/doc/ContextManual.pl
>
>
> Then I cleaned up the first two doc folders above and copied all doc files
> from the backup and added the Cinelerra-GG_Manual. So in worst case there
> might be some extra doc files now :)
> Tested that Help files worked in CinGG, re-built the AppImage and tested
> successful.
>
> ~/Applications> du -sh Cin*
> 171M    CinGG-20241031-x86_64.AppImage
> 181M    CinGG-20241120-x86_64.AppImage
>
>
> Phyllis, look up for a new file-link for the complete AppImage in a few
> minutes 😉
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 8:36 AM Terje J. Hanssen <terjejhanssen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Den 09.12.2024 15:42, skrev Andrew Randrianasulu:
>>
>>
>>
>> пн, 9 дек. 2024 г., 17:36 Terje J. Hanssen <terjejhanssen at gmail.com>:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Den 09.12.2024 15:14, skrev Andrew Randrianasulu:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> пн, 9 дек. 2024 г., 17:09 Terje J. Hanssen <terjejhanssen at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Den 09.12.2024 13:29, skrev Terje J. Hanssen:
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Den 09.12.2024 13:25, skrev Andrew Randrianasulu:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> пн, 9 дек. 2024 г., 15:22 Terje J. Hanssen via Cin <
>>>> cin at lists.cinelerra-gg.org>:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Den 08.12.2024 23:06, skrev Terje J. Hanssen:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Den 08.12.2024 22:39, skrev Phyllis Smith:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There must be some kind of interference when you try to email the
>>>>> large file.  Did you actually send from your Gmail account or your teknikk
>>>>> account.? When I try to send a large file from my gmail account, it says it
>>>>> is too big and automatically uploads it to the google drive and gives me a
>>>>> link.  I just sent you one now so you can see and delete it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My old teknikk account is expired. I use Thunderbird as email client
>>>>> IMAP connected to my gmail account.
>>>>> For one or another reason the connection has been horrible slow since
>>>>> yesterday. But now I have sent you a filelink I hope you receive.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I try first to send it without the manual, in case issues to get it
>>>>>>>> included. I've experienced issues before with file attachments larger than
>>>>>>>> ca. 30 MB, either it is due to the sender or receiver side, I don't know.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>> So I need to know from where and how to copy these html files?
>>>>>>
>>>>>  https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/images/HTML_Manual-20241031.tgz
>>>>> Just download the tgz file and tar xvf to wherever you have bin/doc so
>>>>> it can be copied to AppDir/usr in bld_appimage.sh.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I copied all manual files to bin/doc, and repeat the steps as
>>>>> follows, to get verified if something is wrong:
>>>>>
>>>>> cp HTML_Manual-20241031/CinelerraGG_Manual/**
>>>>> /home/cinelerra/cinelerra-5.1/bin/doc
>>>>>
>>>>> so now the total in AppDir/usr/bin/doc is 1007 elements, 80.3 MB
>>>>>
>>>>> Ran bld_appimage.sh again and now have CinGG-20241120-x86_64.AppImage
>>>>> 166.5 MB
>>>>> (which still is smaller than the previous
>>>>> CinGG-20241031-x86_64.AppImage 178.8 MB)
>>>>>
>>>>> While Manual Help works for the latter, it doesn't load for the new
>>>>> AppImage:
>>>>>
>>>>> ~/Applications> ./CinGG-20241120-x86_64.AppImage
>>>>>
>>>>> Alt+h
>>>>>
>>>>> Cannot open
>>>>> /tmp/.mount_CinGG-24Mpo2/usr/bin/doc/CinelerraGG_Manual/Contents.html: No
>>>>> such file or directory at /home/terje/.bcast5/ContextManual.pl line 205.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this a known issue and possibly how to solve it?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> may be you should move in folder named CinelerraGG_Manual and not its
>>>> content?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, I thought of that, but forgot to ask that question. I was in
>>>> doubt as I think "all html files" was mentioned
>>>> Try to cleanup and make appimage again.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Still no success to put the whole Manual folder in
>>>>
>>>> cp -r HTML_Manual-20241031/CinelerraGG_Manual
>>>> /home/cinelerra/cinelerra-5.1/bin/doc
>>>>
>>>> Alt+h
>>>>
>>>> sh: line 1: /tmp/.mount_CinGG-iDrVm0/usr/bin/doc/ContextManual.pl: No
>>>> such file or directory
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> so, it was more correct first time, just perl script was unable to find
>>> Contents.html
>>>
>>> may be it was named contents.html, from lowercase c ?
>>>
>>>
>>> "Contents.html" looks to be the correct one as verified here from the
>>> latest Manual folder:
>>>
>>> cd /Cin/AppDir/usr/bin/doc/CinelerraGG_Manual
>>>
>>> ls Content* content*
>>> Contents.html  contents.png
>>>
>>> There looks to be a doc build difference somewhere between my AppImage
>>> vs the the official AppImage?
>>>
>>
>>
>> well, for just bin folder
>>
>> I removed anything from bin/doc
>>
>> then re run 'make install'
>>
>> then copied  html docu folder like this:
>>
>> cp -r  CinelerraGG_Manual bin/doc/
>>
>> firefox startup a bit slow but it worked .... in termux.
>>
>>
>> I tried to repeat your steps, but confusingly I still got the previous
>> error:
>>
>> rm /Cin/bin/doc/**
>> ls /Cin/bin/doc/
>>
>> /Cin # make install
>>
>> cp -r  CinelerraGG_Manual /Cin/bin/doc/
>> ls /Cin/bin/doc/
>> CinelerraGG_Manual
>>
>> du -sh /Cin/bin/doc/
>> 76M    /Cin/bin/doc/
>>
>> /Cin
>> bin/cin
>> Cinelerra Infinity - built: Nov 20 2024 22:06:05
>>
>> BC_DisplayInfo::gl_fb_config failed
>>
>> Alt+h
>> sh: line 1: /home/cinelerra/cinelerra-5.1/bin/doc/ContextManual.pl: No
>> such file or directory
>>
>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I thought Manual Help should work before I send the complete AppImage.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh, there it is. Actually I had stored a 2023 version on my system,
>>>>> but now tried to "download" the HTML manual from here, and it only
>>>>> displayed in Firefox :)
>>>>> https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/CinelerraGG_Manual/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Can the bld_appimage.sh take the wanted file name as argument, or is
>>>>>> it just fine to rename it afterwards?
>>>>>>
>>>>> It is just fine to name it afterwards; that is what I do when renaming
>>>>> for the website to include the date.
>>>>>
>>>>> opening index.html and "cinelerra.html" is "Secrets of Cinelerra",
>>>>>> Version 4.1 by Adam Williams
>>>>>>
>>>>> We always want to have these files with the source to recognize
>>>>> Cinelerra's origin and continuance.
>>>>>
>>>>> And not to forget: it is thanks to Andrew's patchwork and time
>>>>>> consuming guiding that has made this possible !
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, that goes without saying, but I should have said it anyway.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It was merely intended for possibly others coming to and read this
>>>>> later :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Cin mailing list
>>>>> Cin at lists.cinelerra-gg.org
>>>>> https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/mailman/listinfo/cin
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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