[Cin] Where are Cingg's ffmpeg compression files located?

[Terje J. Hanssen]

Den 08.11.2024 20:15, skrev Andrew Randrianasulu:
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> пт, 8 нояб. 2024 г., 22:04 Terje J. Hanssen <terjejhanssen at gmail.com>:
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>     Den 08.11.2024 19:01, skrev Andrew Randrianasulu:
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>>     пт, 8 нояб. 2024 г., 18:56 Terje J. Hanssen via Cin
>>     <cin at lists.cinelerra-gg.org>:
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>>         During render testing to and fro, I have had a suspect that
>>         now and then
>>         the content of ffmpeg compression type has changed or could
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>>         picked up again.
>>         But I have thought it was me that had confused or forgot
>>         something. Or
>>         may this occur by other reasons?
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>>         Seemingly this happened recently during render switching between
>>         hevc_vaapi,mp4 and hevc_qsv.mp4 .
>>         hevc_qsv.mp4 has several more pixel options than
>>         hevc_vaapi.mp4 which
>>         has only the single "vaapi" option.
>>         And in one occasion I got more pixel options for
>>         hevc_vaapi.mp4(?) - or
>>         was it still on hevc_qsv,mp4?
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>>         So to find out, I have tried to edit the hevc_vaapi.mp4 file,
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>>         not got the edited content loaded in the video wrench
>>         compression window.
>>         So I wonder where is the preset file used by Cingg located?
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>>         I have
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>>         # ls -l /Cin
>>         lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Oct 22 20:23 /Cin ->
>>         /home/cinelerra/cinelerra-5.1
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>>         and the hevc_vaapi.mp4 preset file with the same content
>>         located in both
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>>         /Cin/bin/ffmpeg/video
>>         /Cin/ffmpeg/video
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>>         But the edited content isn't visible in Cingg?
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>>     I think cingg (or OS?) caches things
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>>     I usually switch to another profile from lisr and back to see my
>>     changes.
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>     What is "lisr" ?
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> list - typo!
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>     You are right ;)
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>     I tried again now, and it isn't enough to quit and cold start
>     Cingg again.
>     For better or for worse Cingg seemingly remember the last used
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>     I had to switch one (or two times) to another profile before the
>     profile content was updated.
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>     But why is there two similar locations for profiles and which one
>     is used by Cingg?
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>         /Cin/bin/ffmpeg/video
>         /Cin/ffmpeg/video
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> one in ffmpeg/video is distributed file

So when installed from downloaded Appimage or rpm, ffmpeg/video is used

> one in bin/ffmpeg/video installed by make install command. This one 
> actually looked up and loaded (because source part of cinelerra 
> usually not present on user machine)
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And Cingg locally built, use bin/ffmpeg/video

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>     Another thing, though off-topic here: the file menu has many
>     useful shortcuts like Shift-R for rendering, but none for Load
>     recent file ;)
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> one of many? there might be whole list of them ...

Shift+o is freely available for Load recent ;)
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>  you can run bin/cin mediafile.m2ts directly from console.
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Thanks for that tip.
However during repeated testing I often use warm Load recent file after 
finishing one rendering before to the next, without closing Cingg.




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