> Hi Ed! > >> Cinelerra always starts to build idx files over the mjpeg files when I >> import a project. This takes many minutes since I have about 500 scenes. >> Is this a step that can be omitted? If so, how do I accomplish that? > > Building the idx files is a necessary step. What it can be avoided is to > rebuild them every time Cinelerra opens a project. > In fact after closing your project, by default Cinelerra keeps only 100 > index files. To increase the number of index files kept go to > "SettingsâPreferencesâInterface - Index Files" and enter a bigger > value > in the "Number of index files to keep" field. It shouldn't be smaller > than the number of your source files. Of course this way you are using > more disk space.
It does the trick. Thank you. > >> When using the OSS audio driver, playback is very queer. >> The playback is nothing more that jumping back and forward through the >> timeline and the overall progression is extremely slow. When changing to >> ALSA, the playback is normal. > > I've encountered this problem quite often: in the Timeline the cursor is > sweeping the same area again and again, progressing extremely slow, with > no audio. I noticed it happens every time the audio device is busy (e.g. > an application involving audio is open, in my case usually Kino or > Firefox). Is this your case too? Yep. Applications kmix and pulseaudio were using the /dev/snd devices. With OSS as audio driver, problems stoped after aI had killed pulseaudio and kmix. For ALSA this is not needed. Bye. > > Ciao > Raffaella > > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > [email protected] > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra > > _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
