Hi Nicolas,
Thanks for sharing your notes. I use the official 2.1.5 release as
well. It took me a while to find some tricks against the crashes:
- try not to use undo ('z' key). Especially when I remove some object
from the timeline and then undo that, it use to crash. (gdb stops at
some caching methods ...probably a locking problem, but I am not sure.
It is difficult for me to trace that deeper.)
- images smaller than the format used for cinelerra project lead to
crash in playback. When I use portrait oriented images in a slideshow,
I always scale them to be at least as wide as the project format.
- when cinelerra crashes anyway, I rerun it and use File -> Load
backup :o) and I also try to make backups manually.
Michal
On 6 November 2011 15:34, Nicolas Ecarnot <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Months after months, I keep fighting to keep me from quitting using
> Cinelerra, because I spend more time trying to find workarounds and
> accepting all its crashes, because once in a while, I still manage to
> achieve some success, but believe me, this is tough.
>
> I am now able to use motion tracking, stabilization, chromakey, trivial
> masking, PIP, and effects. This took me almost 6 months because I also have
> a job and a family to deal with :)
>
> This post is here to ask a general question, and a precise one :
>
> I'm using Ubuntu Oneiric and Cinelerra CV 2.1.5-0.16.
> I'm experiencing many many crashes and I am a very very patient man.
>
> * General question : Are the different others release of Cinelerra more
> stable, and do they deserve I try to install them. According to what I've
> understood, my other choice may be :
> - HV's version, but have to compile
> - Last CV from SVN (or git, didn't understand), and I could also try to
> compile it
> And most of it : would that give me a more stable Cinelerra.
> My low skills do not pretend to need last features, but stability is
> crucial.
>
> * Precise question : I think I understood the main problem came from the
> input files, and I'm starting to spend much time on pre-converting my rushes
> before feeding the beast. On the video point of view, I seem to have a good
> result. But sound keeps being a problem.
> When I read this table :
> http://cinelerra.org/docs/wiki/doku.php?id=supported_file_formats
> I'm frightened to see that crashes is the most frequent word.
>
> Nowadays I'm converting my input files with ffmpeg :
> -vcodec mjpeg -vtag MJPG for the video
> and
> -acodec pcm_s16le
> or
> -acodec libmp3lame
> for the sound
> In both cases, the playback in the viewer instantly crashes Cinelerra.
>
> I read 759 To of Google answer webpages about the best ways to feed
> Cinelerra, and my results are varying (weird : the converted files should
> all work or fail)...
>
> (I wrote my own notes : http://jms.ecarnot.net/doku.php?id=montagevideo)
>
> The table above shows mp3 is not a good option for input files. Ok. More
> generally, what am I missing, what should I do best, what are your advices?
>
> I strongly want to keep using Cinelerra, but today, I need a little help.
>
> --
> Nicolas Ecarnot
>
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