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

[Andrew Randrianasulu]

пт, 8 нояб. 2024 г., 22:58 Terje J. Hanssen <terjejhanssen at gmail.com>:

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> 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 <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
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>>>> 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
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>>>> So I wonder where is the preset file used by Cingg located?
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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
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>>> 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 used
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> appimage is compressed directory, with its own copy of ffmpeg directory.
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> rpm installs into /usr
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> Ok, but what is then ffmpeg/video "distributed file"?
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distributed as in "exist in git source control system, and also in source
tarballs"

on installation whole directory copied to its destination - be it nearer
bin directory or system-wide /usr/share




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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
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>> And Cingg locally built, use bin/ffmpeg/video
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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.
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> 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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