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

[Terje J. Hanssen]

Den 08.11.2024 20:45, skrev Andrew Randrianasulu:
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> пт, 8 нояб. 2024 г., 22:33 Terje J. Hanssen <terjejhanssen at gmail.com>:
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>     Den 08.11.2024 20:15, skrev Andrew Randrianasulu:
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>>     пт, 8 нояб. 2024 г., 22:04 Terje J. Hanssen
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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 not be
>>>             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, but have
>>>             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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>>         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 profile.
>>         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
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>     So when installed from downloaded Appimage or rpm, ffmpeg/video is
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> no ....
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> appimage is compressed directory, with its own copy of ffmpeg 
> directory. (and it not easy to change those, but you can unpack 
> appimage and edit/run cingg from unpacked directory)
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> rpm installs into /usr
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> so in this case profiles live in
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> /usr/share/cin/ffmpeg/

Ok, but what is then ffmpeg/video "distributed file"?

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>>     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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Yeah

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> and bin/ffmpeg/audio ....
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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 ...
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>     Shift+o is freely available for Load recent ;)
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> may be "Load most recent"? Because we load one file, and this probably 
> should be most recent in Recent files submenu ...
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> I'll look into it.

It is fine to popup the Recent files submenu with Shift+o, because 
seemingly the last used file is on the top of that menu(?)


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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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