Re: [CinCV] Announcement from Michael Collins (the new registrant of cinelerra.org)

2014-03-17 Thread Monty Montgomery
Heh, well, now we have a pretty clear impression of what's going on here. Good luck to Mr. Collins, as he's probably going to need it. I still wouldn't mind if he actually succeeds in reinvigorating Cinelerra, and I'll still believe it when I see it. In the meantime, I don't really see how it

Re: [CinCV] Announcement from Michael Collins (the new registrant of cinelerra.org)

2014-03-11 Thread Monty Montgomery
When I said 'I didn't mind' it was more 'doesn't really affect me'. I haven't seen Michael do anything yet aside from grab the domain and send mail. If he turns out to pour time and energy into Cinelerra, then we can decide if it's good for the project or not. Or maybe that's the last we're

Re: [CinCV] blank frames with dnxhd and Monty's branch

2013-05-03 Thread Monty Montgomery
The only thought I have is that I never tested any of this with DNxHD, so it's not surprising it doesn't work. I'm not even sure if it's being picked up by my loader, or if something esle is trying to grab it first. The .MOV extension may well mean the the quicktime4linux libs are trying to snag

Re: [CinCV] synchronisation problem in editing

2013-02-11 Thread Monty Montgomery
I'm sorry I took so long to reply; life has been quite hectic here... I still have no solutions... but I made new tests with shooting in 50i (PAL) DV and HDV (my camera can optionally operate 50i PAL in addition to its normal mode 60i NTSC) and in this case I observed no mismatches in

Re: [CinCV] [PATCH 2.1CVxiphmont 0/7] use external ffmpeg-20121226

2013-01-20 Thread Monty Montgomery
Hi Arvind, The patches got mangled passing through the mail system. I was able to repair them by hand but it took about half an hour-- could you send patches as attachments in the future please? Second issue-- although the patches apply, either recent FFMPEG is very broken with mpeg-ts files,

Re: [CinCV] [PATCH 2.1CVxiphmont 0/7] use external ffmpeg-20121226

2013-01-20 Thread Monty Montgomery
Having investigated a bit more, both ffmpeg 1.1 and libav 9.1 have the same problem with the loader. However, both appear to work properly on the command line (and don't seem to ahvea problem seeking either, which is what I expect is the problem). Monty

Re: [CinCV] synchronisation problem in editing

2013-01-20 Thread Monty Montgomery
Hello Haldan, A canadien video maker, Pierre, from another liste (lprod/France) who had some issues in subscribing to our liste, security announcement scares him, There are some ongoing issues with the mailing list; the maintainers are aware of them. has a problem of synchronisation in

Re: [CinCV] [PATCH 2.1CVxiphmont 0/7] use external ffmpeg-20121226

2013-01-18 Thread Monty Montgomery
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Arvind R arvin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, This set of 7 patches enables the use of recent ffmpeg with the master of monty's branch. Excellent! The updates are much appreciated. I'll apply the patches here in a bit and see how well ffmpeg master works. This

[CinCV] [PATCH] Correct new overlay code ignoring alpha in transitions

2013-01-17 Thread Monty Montgomery
A patch for the second bug found in the new overlay engine. The new overlayer was inadvertantly storing the passed in master alpha value as an int; this bug showed up in the single-track overlapping conversions, such as dissolves. Patch attached; assumes previous two overlay engine patches are

Re: [CinCV] The mailinglist went down in December. Should be back up again now.

2013-01-15 Thread Monty Montgomery
Let's all chime in with a round of 'TESTING! :-) Monty On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Herman Robak herman.ro...@gmail.com wrote: The migration of the CinCV mailing list to another server had some ... issues. It's supposed to be back up again now, but there may be some glitches still...

Re: [CinCV] Testing release of the Blue Banana color grading/correction filter for CinCV

2013-01-15 Thread Monty Montgomery
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Michal Fapso michal.fa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Glen, I had a similar issue with the bluebanana.so plugin. It was compiled for 64bit system, but I have only 32bit. I had to compile it from sources. So you can try this 32bit version:

Re: [CinCV] [PATCH] Complete new overlay engine and resampler for CinelerraCV

2013-01-15 Thread Monty Montgomery
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Einar Rünkaru eina...@smail.ee wrote: It is possible to update titler before changing overlayframe (look at my repo). Ah! yes, of course. If you have a good reformatter, may be we should include it to cinelerra tools. I don't, but I know they exist and

Re: [CinCV] Testing release of the Blue Banana color grading/correction filter for CinCV

2013-01-14 Thread Monty Montgomery
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:03 AM, MGV-AV Linux i...@bandshed.net wrote: Hi Einar, thanks for the reply, I built and installed this version with '--prefix=/usr' Ah, OK, so you did change the prefix. Well, hmmm I'll try running it from the command line and see if there is any meaningful

Re: [CinCV] Testing release of the Blue Banana color grading/correction filter for CinCV

2013-01-14 Thread Monty Montgomery
You can disregard my previous post I discovered the problem in the terminal...silly me should have done that first! It would appear the plugin Monty uploaded is for 64bit, I am running 32bit, the error I get is: 'PluginServer::open_plugin: /usr/lib/cinelerra/bluebanana.so: wrong ELF class:

Re: [CinCV] Testing release of the Blue Banana color grading/correction filter for CinCV

2013-01-13 Thread Monty Montgomery
I'm using a self-compiled and packaged GIT build of Cinelerra-CV 2.2 with the updated overlay engine. I can't imagine why this would create an issue with recognizing a new plugin and all other plugins etc. work perfectly with this build. My guess: The self-built version is probably expecting

Re: [CinCV] Testing release of the Blue Banana color grading/correction filter for CinCV (MGV-AV Linux)

2013-01-11 Thread Monty Montgomery
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Rebecca beccato...@hotmail.com wrote: Wow, thanks Monty, this is aces - the only glitch I've encountered so far is when I check Mask Selected Areas (top right), it crashes. Thanks for the report! It looks like recent versions have added an element right smack

Re: [CinCV] Testing release of the Blue Banana color grading/correction filter for CinCV

2013-01-11 Thread Monty Montgomery
A sincere thanks for all your work on this (and other stuff behind the scenes of course). It is appreciated that you've also provided a drop-in version to work with since this is a pretty sophisticated plugin. ...and eventually, I'll manage to build one that actually works right! :-) I am

[CinCV] updated Blue Banana build to fix CinCV 2.2 crash

2013-01-11 Thread Monty Montgomery
Hello, I just pushed a fix to Blue Banana crashing on CinCV 2.2 and master when activating 'Mark Selected Areas'. My Git is up to date and a new plugin build is here: http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/blue_banana_builds/bluebanana-20130110.tgz Short summary: The mwindow.h structure changed

[CinCV] Testing release of the Blue Banana color grading/correction filter for CinCV

2013-01-09 Thread Monty Montgomery
Hello! I spent the Christmas break writing a color grading and correction filter for CV named Blue Banana. A few people on IRC have been trying it out for about two weeks, and I think it's more or less ready for a wider audience. I've put some effort into balancing the techniques used to give

[CinCV] [PATCH] New resampling engine must clamp alpha

2012-12-03 Thread Monty Montgomery
First bug found in new engine; 8-bit modes with alpha were not clamping alpha during blending Patch attached Monty 0002-New-resampling-engine-must-clamp-alpha.patch Description: Binary data

Re: [CinCV] Video/Audi sync problem. Can anyone please help?

2012-11-15 Thread Monty Montgomery
(Hm, if this is workable, it might be worthy a test suite...) There's a reason for the historical CLACK! Action! Monty ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra

Re: [CinCV] Color handling

2012-11-08 Thread Monty Montgomery
Any reason for not using 8/16/32 bit as a fraction (0-1)? So 8 bit would have a resolution of 1/255, 16 bit of 1/65535 etc. All operations can be done with 4 byte integer math. 16 bits linear will be barely enough to capture an 8 bit nonlinear space, and that's leaving out head- and toe-room.

Re: [CinCV] Color handling

2012-11-08 Thread Monty Montgomery
Just an idea. Sure :-) And I think you're right in the tactical sense... but overall I think float is a more practical idea. It will be slower in the ideal case, but I don't think we'll ever be within spitting distance of ideal speed. BTW, if I sounded ungrateful for the comment, I didn't

Re: [CinCV] Color handling

2012-11-05 Thread Monty Montgomery
... and presenting 0.0 as black and 1.0 as white internally is totally out of the question? No. :-) With your proposed studio swing mapping most compositing and filtering operations have to scale and bias to work right. E.g. black + black + black will be a shade of gray, unless a bias is

Re: [CinCV] Color handling

2012-11-05 Thread Monty Montgomery
I suppose linear light is the native space of many (most?) common operations. Blurring and resampling/scaling will get funny shifts in brightness if they operate on non-linear samples, for example. Yes, full agreement. But given that many [most] tools don't operate in linear space, users may

Re: [CinCV] Color handling

2012-11-04 Thread Monty Montgomery
Now what about formats whose white point is far below the max value, like some higher depth formats? The higher-depth formats I know of (and I'm asking because I'm sure there are ones I don't know of) still define swing in terms of the 8 bit range, and just tack on additional bits. What is

Re: [CinCV] Color handling

2012-11-04 Thread Monty Montgomery
But then there are cinema-oriented formats,like Digital Intermediates and such. http://www.reduser.net/forum/printthread.php?t=2714pp=10page=310 That was all somewhat confusing... need equations :-) But it's clear they're talking about something not broadcast and not nonlinear (gamma)

Re: [CinCV] Color handling

2012-11-04 Thread Monty Montgomery
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Tim Copeland t...@criteriondigital.net wrote: Not understanding why you would want to force a clamped output at all. I don't; I was suggesting only an assumed internal space where we know the intensity curve, black point and white point. I wasn't suggesting

Re: [CinCV] Color handling

2012-11-04 Thread Monty Montgomery
Negatives need to be scan on 10 or 16 bits /pixels and no gamma. RGB 8 bits is just not enough. Of course not everyone has a HP 10 bits screen to grade negs. Did you mean 'no gamma correction' or did you really mean full-linear? Ahh, right, if it's a negative, you don't want to apply a

[CinCV] Color handling

2012-11-03 Thread Monty Montgomery
Cutting to the chase, A Proposal: Implementing only a single color format for the CinCV pipeline, and making it studio-swing RGBA float. Input and output would rely on this assumption and handle conversion to/from sRGB/JPEG/bt601/bt709 spaces automatically. Along with that 'fixing the

[CinCV] colorspace conversion test clip

2012-03-04 Thread Monty Montgomery
for hermanr_: http://www.schleef.org/blog/2009/10/07/ycbcr-gamut-checking/ Monty ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra

Re: [CinCV] voice over

2011-02-06 Thread Monty Montgomery
ALSA would not have anythin to do with it... When you say 'move around' do you mean L/R or appearing at different times? Monty ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra

Re: [CinCV] Cinelerra help needed

2011-02-05 Thread Monty Montgomery
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Haimanti Kar mouriph...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello I am facing some problems with Cinelerra. 1. While working in timeline video and audio are not synchronizing during playing time. There are bugs in the current audio backends and so the sync code is broken in

Re: [CinCV] lost sound track

2011-01-31 Thread Monty Montgomery
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Sean M. Pappalardo pega...@renegadetech.com wrote: Hello. On 01/31/2011 07:02 PM, Douglas Pollard wrote: Almost finished with a couple weeks work on a video and lost the sound track for the left side of stereo. I was adjusting volume and poof it was gone.

Re: [CinCV] hardware

2011-01-31 Thread Monty Montgomery
gnome color console lets you do full LUT color calibration. This sort of thing is not nVidia-centric... Monty

Re: [CinCV] help choosing a video camera compatible with gnu/linux

2010-11-16 Thread Monty Montgomery
Huh? I would say that anything more than having a hardly noticeable difference in the noise level is either a bug in the transcoder or a painful (but sometimes necessary) reduction in the bit rate. The latter should result in chunks, blocks and noise, but changes in colors and brightness?

Re: [CinCV] help choosing a video camera compatible with gnu/linux

2010-11-15 Thread Monty Montgomery
AFAIK mjpeg can handle different colorspaces, including YCbCr, so it seems to me that transcoding video (footage) to mjpeg doesn't necessarily imply colorspace conversion, or at least a lossy colorspace conversion (independently of the loss due to the codec itself). YCbCr is a family of

Re: [CinCV] help choosing a video camera compatible with gnu/linux

2010-11-15 Thread Monty Montgomery
But how many of those who use DSLRs as their video source pay attention to the automatically picked ISO level, which has a huge impact on the noisiness of the image? (Well, I do.) You allow your DSLR to choose automatically? I run every setting manual *period* :-) So I think that the

Re: [CinCV] help choosing a video camera compatible with gnu/linux

2010-11-14 Thread Monty Montgomery
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: The truth is that I don't understand why people are so uptight about having their original footage going directly into Cinelerra. I mean, it's nice that Cinelerra supports several video formats, but somehow I'm only really

Re: [CinCV] help choosing a video camera compatible with gnu/linux

2010-11-14 Thread Monty Montgomery
So, I'm guessing the takeaways of your discussion are: -if at all possible, avoid converting your videos to different formats or try to keep the conversions to a minimum -if you do convert, stay in the same colorspace as the original footage yup. or work in a floating point (non-8-bit)

Re: [CinCV] ffmpeg loader segfaults

2010-11-11 Thread Monty Montgomery
Hello Jose, Is it possible to send those two files off to me (just me, not the list)? Thanks, Monty ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra

Re: [CinCV] Re: Cinelerra CinCV merge request / Cin2.1.5CV

2010-10-28 Thread Monty Montgomery
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) The driver is obviously snd_hda_intel. Yes. This is a well behaved driver (even if some people don;t like the hw interface much :-) and I have examples of it here. The change to ALSA, BTW, was simply

Re: [CinCV] Re: Cinelerra CinCV merge request / Cin2.1.5CV

2010-10-27 Thread Monty Montgomery
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Johannes Sixt j...@kdbg.org wrote: On Mittwoch, 27. Oktober 2010, Monty Montgomery wrote: Speaking of sync: With the patches applied, I get acceptable playback only when I Disable hardware synchronization. Ah, that part of the patch got cherrypicked too, OK

Re: [CinCV] Re: Cinelerra CinCV merge request / Cin2.1.5CV

2010-10-26 Thread Monty Montgomery
- 8aa33e3e Rwrite the latency timing/calculation for the OSS backend  There is parctically no explanation why the change is good and why  a new mutex is needed. It looks dangerous. How extensively has the  code been excercised? Why is a change needed at all? I am not aware  of people

Re: [CinCV] Re: Cinelerra CinCV merge request / Cin2.1.5CV

2010-10-26 Thread Monty Montgomery
People are, in general, used to sync always being broken. :-) OK. Speaking of sync: With the patches applied, I get acceptable playback only when I Disable hardware synchronization. Ah, that part of the patch got cherrypicked too, OK. I renamed the option in my own tree so that it says

Re: [CinCV] Cinelerra Bug Report: HD-Videos extremely slow

2010-09-18 Thread Monty Montgomery
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:51 AM, matm...@t-online.de matm...@t-online.de wrote: Cinelerra Bug Report: HD-Videos extremely slow. I'm using Cinelerra-CV 2.1.0-2svn20081020.1 on Debian Lenny. I need it to cut some HD-Video clips to short movies which are 5 till 9 minutes long. The source video

Re: [CinCV] How to unsubscribe from this mailing list?

2010-08-12 Thread Monty Montgomery
Oh, let's be nice. Cinelerra is indeed buggy as all hell. Every one of us has vented hardcore about it in the past. So... Not great form, but the frustration is understandable. There really *aren't* any good FOSS vid editing tools today. Honestly, I'm surprised he's having decent success with

Re: [CinCV] Main CV repo

2010-08-02 Thread Monty Montgomery
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:48 PM, E Chalaron e.chala...@xtra.co.nz wrote: That's a problem. It is a serious one actually what is the point of Git if every developer has its own version of cinelerra ? These changes haven't been merged because they're untested or known to cause serious

Re: [CinCV] More syntax error at make

2010-07-27 Thread Monty Montgomery
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:30 PM, E Chalaron e.chala...@xtra.co.nz wrote: Hi Monty Thanks a lot for the reply. My very problem is that I am not a developper and cant really read error messages. But got the picture now. I was reading your posts previsouly and from I understand your GIT version

Re: [CinCV] More syntax error at make

2010-07-26 Thread Monty Montgomery
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:42 PM, E Chalaron e.chala...@xtra.co.nz wrote: Hi Einar Thanks for that... the problem seems to be recurrent here and there See the following : That's a different issue. The code was written for libpng 1.2, and you're compiling against 1.4 in which the API has

Re: [CinCV] compile error in edits.C

2010-07-22 Thread Monty Montgomery
Thanks; change applied to my GIT repo. Monty On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Einar Rünkaru eina...@smail.ee wrote: Hi. I read in IRC log about compile error in edits.C at line 50: ListEdit::ListEdit(); This line can be removed. Einar ___

Re: [CinCV] Updates: ongoing functionality work, personal git repo

2010-07-18 Thread Monty Montgomery
I tried both versions (included ffmpeg / external ffmpeg) with mpeg2 and AVCHD footage from my camcorder. With mpeg2 no problem, and I had also partial success loading and editing directly AVCHD files (the original cinelerra-cv crashed when I tried to load them, so your patched version is

Re: [CinCV] Updates: ongoing functionality work, personal git repo

2010-07-18 Thread Monty Montgomery
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dear Monty, I currently have the following problem /also/ in the latest available GIT repo from the other coders. Resulting that opening projects with .mov files in it