building CinCV from source, Ubuntu 32-bit

Normally, I am a Fedora man, but I was helping a friend install Cinelerra on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 32-bit. I installed Lucid in a VMware virtual machine on VMware Server. Here are some notes that may be helpful for someone. The instructions assume a base installation. The base installation VM file size is about 2.7GB. With my updates, it becomes 4GB.

echo "1: update manually with synaptic package manager"
I don't know the command line for this, just do via GUI

echo "2: install dependencies for source"
sudo apt-get install g++ git-core libtool automake nasm mplayer xorg-dev ffmpeg libasound2-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libtheora-dev libopenexr-dev libdv4-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev libx264-dev uuid-dev mjpegtools libmjpegtools-dev libfftw3-dev liba52-0.7.4-dev libmp3lame0 libmp3lame-dev libsndfile1-dev libfaac-dev libfaad-dev libesd0-dev libavc1394-dev libraw1394-dev libiec61883-dev libtiff4-dev libxxf86vm-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libopenexr-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev mjpegtools libmp3lame0 libquicktime-dev libqt4-dev libpostproc-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libmad0-dev libhal-dev libdbus-1-dev libgcrypt11-dev libfribidi-dev

echo "3: touch language files not present"
cd $HOME/my_cinelerra/po;touch de.gmo es.gmo eu.gmo fr.gmo it.gmo pt_BR.gmo ru.gmo sl.gmo

echo "4: chmod on stamp-po for make install"
cd $HOME/my_cinelerra/po;sudo chmod 777 stamp-po

echo "5: run ldconfig to get around libquicktimehv error"
sudo ldconfig

echo "6: add kernel parameter for max shared memory"
sudo su; echo "kernel.shmmax=2147483648" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

Compile from source (executed within source code directory):
1) ./autogen.sh
2) ./configure
4) make
5) make install

Compile with Monty's changes
After verifying a successful CinCV compile, you'd want to load up Monty's changes and then do:
1) ./autogen.sh
2) ./configure
3) make clean
4) make
5) make install


da mule

VMware virtual appliance for video editing

Over the weekend, I created a VMware Partner Account and got my Fedora 10, x86-64 virtual machine approved to be listed on VMware's Virtual Appliance listings:
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/148183

If you want to try out Cinelerra and you use 64-bit VMware Player, Workstation or Server, this is an easy way to get started. I'd appreciate someone giving it a shot and letting me know how it works.

the mule

Fedora Core 6 virtual Cinelerra machine for VMware

I got a wild hair yesterday and decided to create a Fedora Core 6 VMware virtual machine for VMware Player. This virtual machine (vm) has the latest Cinelerra CVS version 1009 compiled and installed on it, of course, along with a bunch of supporting applications:
avidemux2 flash mplayer vlc xine

I'm thinking the main use for this vm is for render farms. So that someone who has access to a large number of PCs can setup VMware Player or Server.

Here are some instructions on how to install VMware Player on Linux:
http://www.techanswerguy.com/2007/06/vmware-player-install-on-linux-fedora.html

By the way, I believe audio only works using VMware Player, rather than VMware Server. Also, if you try this vm for actual editing, you'll probably get a lot of audio drops unless the machine hosting the virtual guest is very, very powerful (greater than 3.0Ghz single core).

In case you try this vm and get no audio, here's a solution:
http://www.techanswerguy.com/2007/06/vmware-player-no-sound-bad-directsound.html

Also, I've left the default display at 1024x768.

The virtual machine is gzipped and is about a gigabyte in size (1,151,131,294 bytes). Have fun downloading it!
http://www.stormpigs.com/vm/fc6cinelerra.tar.gz

Root password is crazedmule
The nonroot user is "cinelerra" with the password cinelerra

Update 2009/04/03
Update:
I've superceded this VM with a 64-bit version. This vm uses Fedora 10, x86-64 and will only play on Intel machines that support 64-bit OSs:
http://www.stormpigs.com/fedora10Vm.html
*** end update *** ~3GB

Hopefully, someone will find this useful. Please drop me a line..love to hear from you.
The Mule!

Fedora Core 6 on x86 Cinelerra dependencies

I'm preparing to upgrade my Fedora Core 4 system to Fedora Core 6 and have figured out how to install the source dependencies for Cinelerra in Core 6 relatively painlessly in an instance of a VMware virtual machine.

I use yum to install the dependent packages.

I needed to do the installation in a number of separate steps, due to some repository conflicts for ffmpeg-devel sources between the fedora base and livna repos, as well as some trickiness with mjpegtools.

Here are the steps:
1) make sure you have the correct repositories in yum.
2) install the dependencies using the shell script below
- this script includes everything except mjpegtools
3) remove the livna repositories from yum and install mjpegtools (ffmpeg-devel, optional)
4) get the source code
5) compile Cinelerra from source

Step 1: Make sure yum repositories are available
In order to install Cinelerra from source, you will need to have the following repositories in yum:
1) fedora core, extras and updates
2) dries
3) livna

3/31/07 Note: do NOT have the freshrpms repository listed in yum when you do the install.

The Cinelerra CVS source code will not compile against the ffmpeg in Freshrpms. Reference: https://init.linpro.no/pipermail/skolelinux.no/cinelerra/2007-March/010361.html

Here's a nice rpm that installs the livna repositories into yum for you: rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm

And don't forget the RPM key imports for each repository, such as the dries key: rpm -ivh http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY.dries.txt

Step 2: Install dependent files
Here is the list of dependencies needed, already in the form of a shell script ready for you to cut-and-paste into your favorite text editor:
yum install \
libquicktime \
gsm-devel \
xvidcore* \
lame \
lame-devel \
libvorbis* \
libogg* \
libtool* \
a52* \
libtheora* \
libpng* \
libjpeg* \
libtiff* \
esound* \
audiofile* \
libraw1394* \
libavc1394* \
freetype* \
fontconfig* \
nasm \
e2fsprogs* \
faad2-dev* \
OpenEXR* \
fftw3* \
libsndfile* \
libiec61883* \
x264 \
x264-d* \
faac* \
libdv*

Don't forget to chmod a+x the file!

Steps 3: Install mjpegtools
Remove the livna repositories from yum and install ffmpeg-devel and mjpegtools:
4/3/07 addition (thanks Roland!)
yum --disablerepo=livna install mjpegtools*

If you wish, you may install ffmpeg-devel. But it is not essential for Cinelerra compilation.

Step 4: Get Cinelerra source code
Getting the source files assumes that you have subversion installed:
yum install subversion

Then checkout the Cinelerra CVS trunk:
svn checkout svn://svn.skolelinux.org/cinelerra/trunk/hvirtual

Step 5: Build from source
Build the source from the hvirtual directory:
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

Here are some scripts that show the different portions of the installation process. You'll see the ffmpeg-libs and -devel conflicts at the bottom of script 1. In script 2, I've removed ffmpeg-devel from the initial install. Script 3 shows the successful install of ffmpeg-devel from the dries and fedora extras repositories. Script 4 shows the successful install of mjpegtools. Script 5/6 show the configure and make/make install processes.

typescript.1
typescript.2no_ffmpeg
typescript.3ffmpeg-devel
typescript.4mjpeg
typescript.5configure
typescript.6makeinstall

enjoy!

ALERT!
ALERT!
Just in case you follow these steps and get the dreaded x264 compile error: 'struct ' has no member named 'b_cbr' error, here are the steps to fix it:
http://crazedmuleproductions.blogspot.com/2007/06/dreaded-compilation-error-x264c139.html