Andrew (R.S Admin) @ajroach42@retro.social

@djsundog ooooh. You gonna try and grab some footage before you scamper?

@mdhughes That has been my experience as well, which is why I thought I might have good luck with some open source software.

@keithzg Sure. It just seems like there should be something I can do.

@shapr I assume so, yeah.

So playing with melt some more on my linux box, I think I know how to troubleshoot this when I get there tomorrow.

The m1 isn't generally a slow system (for many tasks, it is the fastest computer I've ever used!) but kdenlive encodes slower on this system than it does on my Raspberry Pi 4.

According to this: https://www.mltframework.org/blog/v6.26.0_released/

v6.26 added support for hwaccel query string parameter to the avformat producer, which accepts videotoolbox, which is supported by the m1 on MacOS.

That's great, but I don't understand the syntax as described there, and I have not been able to find any examples.

I'll fiddle with it tomorrow when I'm back in front of it.

I've seen some recommendation for h264_videotoolbox, but I can't seem to make kdenlive understand that this exists.

Which appears to be a limitation of something called Melt, which I am unfamiliar with.

So tomorrow I'll fiddle with melt on the command line and see if I can figure out how to make it work from the command line.

Hey! has anyone had good luck with any open source video editors or video encoders on an m1 mac (mini)?

We use kdenlive everywhere, so I'd like to keep using kdenlive, but (using kdenlive daily) rendering is like 10FPS for webm and h264.

I might have better luck if I recompile kdenlive and ffmpeg, but I *hate* compiling stuff on macos.

Any ideas?

@DHeadshot Thank you!!

@DHeadshot Oh definitely.

@djsundog Slightly too soon.

@irina ah, in that case no, but thank you.