Can I haz cheezburger now :-) On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Adam B <[email protected]> wrote: > Daniel, your suggestion of loading a few files at a time did the trick. > Thanks! That, in combination with lowering my "Cache size" setting, allowed > me to finally load all 166 MPG files. I experimented with the format > settings too but that didn't seem to make a difference. > > I also tried Hermann's suggestion of using mpeg3toc to pre-generate the .toc > files but that didn't seem to help either. It caused the "Load files" > operation to be blazingly fast but that just meant it ran out of RAM in less > time. There surely must be some memory leak when loading resources. Either > in Cinelerra or a shared library. > > So to summarize what worked for me: If you are running out of RAM trying to > load resources: > 1) Go to Settings->Preferences->Performance and set "Cache size" to > something low (2MB for example) > 2) Load only a few files at a time then save the project and exit > Cinelerra. (I was able to do 50 at a time) > 3) Make sure the "Index files to keep" setting is >= to the number of > resources you have. > > By the way, Cache size apparently has a large impact on memory usage. At > 2MB my empty project with 166 resources loaded uses only 200MB. A > cache-size of 10MB (default) needed about 400MB. > > Thanks for all your help people :) > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Daniel Jircik <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I've had problems loading bulk files into Cinelerra as well. Try this. >> In a console start Cinelerra, go to file, select New. Popup will ask >> for parameters. Top left is Presets. Select NTSC and bottom right is >> Color Model select YUV 8 bit. Now save the file with your project >> name. >> >> Try loading just one file as New resources only. Double click it and >> it should appear in the viewer window. >> On the timeline toolbar select drag and drop mode (the arrow). >> Drag the clip from the assets window to the timeline and make sure it >> shows up on the compositor window. >> >> If all is good save the file and start adding assets in smaller >> numbers, say 5 at a time. >> >> That should tell you if everything is ok from console errors etc. >> >> ciao >> Daniel >> >> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Adam B <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Thanks for the quick replies, flavio and Frans. I tried again with no >> > luck. Here's what I tried: >> > >> > 1) Increased the the "Number of index files to keep" from 100 to 300. >> > 2) Launch cinelerra from a terminal so I can see why it crashes >> > 3) From the file menu select "Load files..." >> > 4) Select all my mpg video files (164 total). >> > 5) Select "Create new resources only" and click okay >> > 6) Watch my system-monitor for the next 5min. Free physical RAM quickly >> > goes to zero. After that, free swap slowly declines to zero. >> > 7) Cinelerra dies with the console message: "Killed". I'm fairly >> > certain >> > that the OS took pitty and killed it as opposed to Cinelerra crashing. >> > >> > Am I doing something wrong? By the way, my Cinelerra version is 2.1CV. >> > >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Cinelerra mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra > >
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