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Get Cinelerra CV source code

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Experimental code

Get Cinelerra CV source code

The source code of Cinelerra-CV is available from the new official Cinelerra-CV repository on GitHub.

Additionally, release tarballs are available on the Cinelerra-CV releases page on GitHub.

You can clone the repo of the last stable release (2.3) with:

git clone https://github.com/cinelerra-cv-team/cinelerra-cv.git -b rel2.3.0 cinelerra-cv-2.3

Alternatively you can clone the ever growing git repository (it is recommended):

git clone https://github.com/cinelerra-cv-team/cinelerra-cv.git cinelerra-cv-2.3

The repo is maintained by a small group of core developers. You can browse all repositories of the Cin-CV Community on-line, thanks to GitHub.

git.cinelerra-cv.org is no longer mantained. All git users of git.cinelerra-cv.org should update their remote URL to the new domain.

Packages

Attention: some packages are outdated !

Arch Linux
Debian
Fedora
FreeBSD
Gentoo
Manjaro
Mandriva
openSUSE
ROSA
Slackware
Ubuntu

Cinelerra-CV is included in the Arch User Repository (AUR). To install the "cinelerra-cv" package enable the User repository first see the User Guidelines for more info, then install an aur-helper (yay, pikaur, etc), then run the following command from the command line:

yay -Syu

yay -S cinelerra-cv

For Debian, packages are available through Archive Deb Multimedia

2.2-dmo19 - for Debian 8.0 (Jessie)
2.2-dmo6+deb7u1 - for Debian 7.0 (Wheezy)

Attention:

Deb-Multimedia stopped building Cinelerra-CV after 2.2. If you want the latest version 2.3, your only option is to build it from source.

Attention:

Cinelerra-CV is not available in Fedora by default. It's also not in the RPM Fusion repository.
The ATrpms repository offers the old version 2.1 for Fedora 20.
If you want to compile Cinelerra-CV from source you can find detailed instructions here.

A WIP (work in progress) port of Cinelerra-CV 2.3 for FreeBSD has been created by Bernhard Fröhlich.
Attention:

It is not fully working yet and can't be built completely from source. Please help him out, if you can.

1. FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso was installed with default settings.
2. We added a new user cinelerra at the end of the installation.
3. Added user to the wheel group (so we can run commands as root):

pw groupmod wheel -m cinelerra

4. bsdconfig is broken, to install packages from the DVD we ran:

mkdir -p /dist

mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /dist

env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos \

pkg bootstrap

5. Installed the graphical environment:

env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos \

pkg install kde xorg

6. Made KDM start at boot:

echo 'kdm4_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf

echo 'dbus_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf

7. VirtualBox (optional)

pkg install virtualbox-ose-additions

echo 'vboxguest_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf

echo 'vboxservice_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf

This gives us a basic graphical system with X.Org and KDE4 installed.

Install Cinelerra-CV

1. Install dependencies:

pkg install tiff fftw3 mjpegtools jpeg liba52 png libsndfile x264 libtheora libvorbis ffmpeg libdv
e2fsprogs-libuuid OpenEXR esound

2. Clone the build scripts and change into their directory:

pkg install git

git clone https://github.com/decke/ports.git

cd ports/multimedia/cinelerra

3. Build the program and install it:

make install

Installation for Gentoo GNU/Linux is very straight forward. Simply type:

emerge cinelerra

as root and it should install and run without any problems.

Note that you may need to put cinelerra in your /etc/portage/package.keywords file in order to unmask it:

echo "media-video/cinelerra ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

See the Handbook for details.

Cinelerra-CV can be installed through the Octopi package manager.

Search for the following packages and install them:

libquicktime
mjpegtools
cinelerra-cv

CinelerraCV 2.2 is officially available in Open Mandriva 2014.2.

Make sure restricted packages are activated in the control center.
Note:
Cinelerra doesn't show up in the "programs with GUI" list. You have to show the complete list to install it.

RPMs for openSUSE are in the Packman repositories.
You can install directly with Yast if you have Packman configured as a Yast install source.

Packages of Cinelerra-CV for plf2014.1 are available in the 'Restricted Updates Repository'

for i586
for x86_64

Packages of Cinelerra-CV for plf2016.1 are available in the 'Restricted Release Repository'

for i586
for x86_64

How to install:

Enable ROSA Restricted Updates repository on "Install and Remove Software"
Update packages list:

urpmi.update

Install cinelerra-cv rpm package:

urpmi cinelerra-cv

You can find prebuilt Cinelerra-CV packages at the following locations:

Attention: these packages are extremely outdated !

Slackonly packages (it uses SBo SlackBuilds)
Ponce's repository
Studioware packages of Studioware project

If you want to build Cinelerra-CV from scratch, SlackBuilds are available at the usual place.

Latest Cinelerra-CV 2.3 for Ubuntu (from 12.04 'Precise Pangolin' to 20.04 'Focal Fossa')
is available from this Launchpad PPA.

We recommend installing Cin-CV packages for Ubuntu from 'Current GIT PPA'
To add the Cin-CV 'current git ppa' to your source list run these commands in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cinelerra-ppa/ppa

sudo apt-get update

Once the the PPA has been enabled you can install the package with the command:

sudo apt-get install cinelerra-cv

At the present time, this PPA is not supported by us.
The recommendations on the PPA's Launchpad page are the personal opinion of the owner of the PPA
and do not reflect the official position of the Cinelerra-CV Community.

Experimental code

Some developers are working around specific issues on experimental repos.
You are welcome to test the application and report back to the mailing list.

Einar Rünkaru - Cin-CVE
J6T - merging Cin-HV 4.x
Akirad - useful merges from all branches
Мonty - FFMPEG-based loader

Einar Rünkaru is working with the long-term goal of improving the core fixing bugs and design flaws to get a stronger code, better designed to fit a community development. It's a quite invasive work, that needs a lot of debugging. See more about Cinelerra-CVE here.

Einar's repository on GitHub

This project is not being actively worked on anymore.

Johannes Sixt's goal was to merge the Cinelerra-HV releases (4.x) with Cinelerra-CV.
Since HV does not provide a GIT repository, this requires a lot of testing and debugging.

J6T's main repository on GitHub

For the merge-4 branch (combination of HV 4.1 + CV 2.3), see here:
J6T's merge-4 repository on GitHub | Ubuntu packages on the Launchpad

Attention:
The info on the launchpad page of the j6t's PPA is outdated.

This project is not being actively worked on anymore.

This Cin-CV 2.2 repository by Paolo Rampino has a blend of the HV-like extended ffmpeg decoding,
many of the fixes found in CinCV 2.3 and much improved UI theming from the former Cinecutie project.

Unfortunately, this hasn't been updated in a while and may not compile with recent gcc versions.
However, it is possible to compile it with gcc 5.5.0 using these patches.
Akirad's repository on GitHub

This project is not being actively worked on anymore.

Monty Montgomery wrote an improved version of the FFMPEG-based file reader from Cin-HV 4.1 so that Cinelerra can read many more file formats.

Main changes are:

updates the internal ffmpeg version to ffmpeg-0.6.
disables the old libmpeg3 loader
properly handles odd-framerate HDV video (eg, the Canon 24F mode where a 24 fps progressive scan stream
is wrapped in a 30fps NTSC container with hard telecine).
adds a minor autoconf fix for OpenGl detection.
strengthens pixel format handling (including adding JPEG-style chroma sitings, used by DV, Theora, VPx and MJPEG, which cinelerra's quicktime internals don't directly support)
corrects handling of audio formats that decode to othe than 16-bit linear
(eg, uncompressed 8 bit audio tracks)
adds a minor workaround to the seeking algo to try to handle AVCHD files with partially incomplete initial open GOPs
fix latency calculation in the ALSA backend

A complete new overlay engine and resampler developed by Monty was implemented in Cinelerra-CV 2.3

Monty's repository