On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 8:17 AM AVLinux via Cin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Andrew, and thanks very much! > > I'm working with the November 21 AppImage and I have extracted it and I > assume in the AppImage the path would be > /squashfs-root/usr/bin/ffmpeg/video/? It seems so because I copied your > file there and by running Cin from the extracted AppImage I successfully > rendered a working MKV file with H.264+WAV! Is there a command I can run > to re-compress the AppImage and get it back to it's binary form?
I usually used instructions from https://download.cinelerra-gg.org/files/CinelerraGG_Manual/Build_CinGG_AppImage_from_s.html *I think* you can just put pre-existing 'bin' folder (from previously unpacked appimage) there and it will be picked up by bld_appimage.sh script. Phyllis used method with linuxdeploy, but I forgot where its upstream was. https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg09203.html > > Thanks so much for your quick attention on this, I will wait for you > guys to decide if this is a future addition, in the meantime I have a > working solution to use! > > Nice to hear from Phyllis and Sam too! > > Best, Glen > > --- > > > On 2025-12-30 22:07, Andrew Randrianasulu via Cin wrote: > > I just copied modified h264_vaapi.mkv as h264.mkv (attached ) to > > > > /usr/share/cin/ffmpeg/video/ > > > > and it seems to work with s24/s32 as sound encoder for mkv container.. > > > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 5:53 AM Andrew Randrianasulu > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 5:01 AM Sam via Cin > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > Hi Glen, nice to hear from you. I'm sorry about the forum. We are > >> > currently in the process of completely revamping the website, so there > >> > may still be some issues with certain functions. Hopefully, this will be > >> > resolved soon. As for the technical question, some of our supporters and > >> > developers will certainly be able to answer that better than I can. > >> > Thank you for your loyalty to Cin-GG. Happy New Year to you too. > >> > > >> > Sam > >> > > >> > Am 31.12.25 um 00:15 schrieb AVLinux via Cin: > >> > > Hi Cin-GG folks! > >> > > > >> > > I'm Glen from AV Linux, I had gotten busy and away from the Cin forum > >> > > but I'm still a hardcore Cin-GG User and I still include Cin-GG in > >> > > every AV Linux release. I was quite concerned when the Cin forum and > >> > > downloads were offline for so long and I was hoping the project was > >> > > still going, now I see the downloads are back but I couldn't seem to > >> > > log into the forum so I thought I'd just join the mailing list. Thank > >> > > you for all you do to keep this project going, I know it is neither > >> > > fun nor easy much of the time to maintain a large open-source project.. > >> > > > >> > > On to my question: > >> > > > >> > > I had a read of the Cin manual about adding ffmpeg options and I'm a > >> > > little lost on how to do what I want, I also use and distribute the > >> > > AppImage version so I'd also like to avoid cracking open every > >> > > AppImage release to add some custom options. I do a lot of Concert > >> > > film restorations these days and I like to work with the Video in > >> > > Cin-GG and then import the Audio into Ardour so I have an unlimited > >> > > choice of specialized Audio Plugins and a more ideal Audio-centered > >> > > workflow. For my use case I really miss a MOV or MKV option to Render > >> > > H.264 Video + WAV Audio, this combination seems to be missing from > >> > > both the 'mov' and 'mkv' extension formats and H.264+WAV is a > >> > > completely valid spec for both MOV and MKV containers. > >> > >> > >> Mov presets live in ffmpeg/qt category, mostly. > >> > >> Try faststart_h264.qt (modify to taste) + s16le.qt/s32le.qt ? > >> > >> If I recall > >> > > there is an h.264_vaapi option in mkv but my Video card doesn't > >> > > support it.. With this Workflow I can import the whole Video file into > >> > > Ardour and extract the Audio and then re-mux with the edited Audio and > >> > > keep the MP4 Video without re-encoding the Video so this is why I'm > >> > > asking an H.264 Render with an uncompressed WAV for further Audio > >> > > editing. In general for an archiving option H.264+WAV is a decent > >> > > combo as well so hopefully it would also be a useful addition beyond > >> > > my needs. > >> > > > >> > > Is it possible to get plain old H.264 + WAV in a MOV or MKV container > >> > > (or even both) in a future release? > >> > > > >> > > Thanks for considering and a Happy and Healthy New Year to all the > >> > > Cin-GG folks!! > >> > > > >> > > Best, Glen > >> > > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Cin mailing list -- [email protected] > >> > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cin mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Cin mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Cin mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
