Cinelerra in Gentoo

miroR · l33t Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 826

title: Cinelerra in Gentoo
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Cinelerra has reportedly been revamped, and should work faster, integrated with FFmpeg:

http://cinelerra.org/2015/index.php/2015-03-03-21-28-12/newsletter

But it is not available in Gentoo at all at this time:

https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-video/cinelerra

(where the sole available versions are:

Dominique_71 · Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 6:27 pm Post subject:

A fast search on gentoo's bugzilla give https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539174

It look like to be mainly a man power issue:

miroR · l33t Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 826

schmatzler · n00b Joined: 04 Mar 2016 Posts: 1

Hi guys,

Danny here. I'm working closely with the Cinelerra-CV team.
I just like to point out that cinelerra.org isn't doing anything anymore. Their developer joined Cinelerra-CV in January. Unfortunately, the domain is out of our hands.

The best place for Cinelerra is http://cinelerra-cv.org. We offer two versions:

-Stable CV 2.3 released in August
-5.0 - effectively the development version that was started on cinelerra.org

(and there also is HV 4.6.1 on http://www.heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php but that's not us)

You might want to update your packages to this. It's a pretty simple configure; make thing.
We just received a support request for 4 year old code, that is really bad and hurts our reputation. Since then, we made a lot of progress.
Please don't patch that old mess for GCC 5, just use 2.3 where this is already incorporated.

If someone wants to build 5.0 you can find a GIT repository here:
http://git.cinelerra-cv.org/gitweb?p=goodguy/cinelerra.git;a=summary

See here, how 5.0 is built for Slackware (sorry, not a Gentoo guy myself):
http://git.cinelerra-cv.org/gitweb?p=schmatzler/cinelive.git;a=blob;f=SlackBuilds/cinelerra-goodguy/cinelerra-goodguy.SlackBuild;

I lack the time to support even more packages, so I can't do it myself. But I hope, someone here will find the time. Thanks

Berto d Sera · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 20

So apparently it's THREE branches of the same thing:
https://cinelerra-cv.org/download.php

It seems there is no way whatsoever to have the -GG version, other than compiling it myself, right?

audiodef · Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 10:56 pm Post subject:

I'd like to add Cinelerra to the list of installed packages for the Gentoo Studio stage4 tarball, so I'm volunteering to make an attempt. At which I could fail, I'm nothing special.

I'm starting with a modified ebuild from Portage for this version: https://cinelerra-cv.org/five/pkgs/src/

Will post the ebuild here if I'm successful. If not, I'll post what I have and see if someone else wants to try.

EDIT:

Looking at the README, the following has to be translated to src_prepare, src_configure and src_install:

./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr
make 2>&1 | tee log
make install
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Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21633

As I interpret man 5 ebuild, if you declare EAPI 4 or later, the default src_install will likely do what you need for the install phase. Looking at nothing other than your post, I would implement those methods as:

audiodef · Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 2:42 am Post subject:

Thanks, Hu. I wasn't sure what to do with autogen, so this is helpful.
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DeIM · Guru Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Posts: 429

Hi, I wanna contribute to make working (maybe unofficial) cin5.1 GG ebuild.
I already successfully built source versions located https://cinelerra-cv.org/five/pkgs/src/

What is the best approach to coop with often updated sources and how to relatively download it from this link in ebuild?

Thanks

beandog · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:20 pm Post subject:

DeIM · Guru Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Posts: 429

Hi,

seems there is only old src version here https://cinelerra-cv.org/five/old_pkgs/src/

finally I managed to be on "cutting edge" and get source from git, so there could be something wrong in executable but on other hand there could be fixes not included in dist versions.

here's my beta ebuild (feel free to fine-tune):

Zucca · Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 9:59 am Post subject:

I remember trying out Cinelerra... Can't recall why I didn't choose it.
I once settled for Openshot but eventually it was too unstable.
ffmpeg as backend is very tempting. I tend to merge and cut my videos with ffmpeg on cli. :P I've made some hacky bash scripts to make few things easier.

So if someone can push an updated ebuild to some overlay, I'll sure test it out and report if I find any problems. \o
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