On Monday, March 7, 2022, Andrea paz <[email protected]> wrote:
> >( Phyllis): > > When I used the ffmpeg/tiff render format, it created the toc file but > it was empty even then. > > Also ran the CinGG version of 11/2016 and 2/2018; in both cases the toc > file was either empty (the earlier ones) or just the first 4 lines. > > So I think it never worked right and the workaround as Andrea tested it > to create the toc file manually. > > Sorry to insist, but I think DPX support is very important. > > It would take more testing by other users. As I wrote in a previous > message, some versions work for me, and even in Arch, DPX and PNG used > to work for me (not anymore, now). > > @IgorBeg > Please, can you test the rendering of a sequence of images (it only > takes a few seconds), since you normally use Ubuntu 16? > > > I assume the ffmpeg command line creates it? I have not had the chance > to try that yet. Does it? > > FFmpeg creates the images with a command (muxer) that implies %05d in > the name and then, thanks to the image2 command (demuxer), it reads > them (without the need to create a TOC file) and creates the video. It > occurs to me that CinGG presets create the images via %05d and then, > instead of being read by image2, the TOC file (not the video file!) is > created and can be imported into CinGG (or other program). Perhaps a > version of "imagelist.sh" is implemented? In short, the difference > between ffmpeg and CinGG is the creation of the TOC file. > > I remember that my hypothesis about the problem is the management of > absolute/relative paths, since the TOC is created and works: only the > links are missing. I am not sure it was designed as cross-application support? I mean, cingg can load both TOC types, so it works... Are you concerned about more self-contained toc file for inter-application operability or self-documentability reasons? How other apps (like Natron?) handle this? > > > > Is it possible to trace a patch that has touched > the paths? If not, I'll say again that it's better to delete these > presets and the related entries in the manual altogether. > > [ffmpeg reference: > https://www.ffmpeg.org/faq.html#How-do-I-encode-single- > pictures-into-movies_003f > https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html#image2-2 > https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html#image2-1] >
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