Bug 211206

Summary:	media-video/cinelerra-cvs-20080115 broken h264 rendering w/ media-libs/x264-svn-20070924
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Paul de Vries <phs.de.vries>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Media-video project <media-video>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Paul de Vries 2008-02-23 21:12:00 UTC

When rendering a HDV video to the H264 format media-libs/x264-svn-20070924 crashes with error:"x264 [error]: no ratecontrol method specified". Using version media-libs/x264-svn-20061014-r1 gives no crashes/errors.

Cinelerra-cvs: media-video/cinelerra-cvs-20080115 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load hdv video in media-video/cinelerra-cvs-20080115 
2. render video to Quicktime for Linux, H.264
3. results in error: x264 [error]: no ratecontrol method specified




media-libs/x264-svn has been changed and is now expecting a value for rate control and crashes if none is given (see changelog from x264). Not all programs (like Cinelerra) do provide these options. Although it is actually a bug in cinelerra, the change in x264 makes the system fail.

Please make older version of x264 version (20061014-r1) available again and mask current, until  main video programs (like cinelerra) are fixed.

Comment 1 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2008-03-01 20:15:40 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Although it is actually a
> bug in cinelerra, the change in x264 makes the system fail.
> 
> Please make older version of x264 version (20061014-r1) available again and
> mask current, until  main video programs (like cinelerra) are fixed.


this sounds contradictory :)

I've comitted a new snapshot with a patch to use the old default of x264 for the ratecontrol method until cinelerra has the ability to set it via the gui.


Thanks for the report !