cinelerra problem

[motionpic]

hi, i'm new to video editing, i'm running a gentoo linux (2.6.8-r3) sytem on athlon xp2000+; gforce 5980
i thought to start with cinelerra 1.1.7 but i have a problem
if i load a movie play it cinelerra crashes when i stop the movie....?
i have no idea what's going on so if someboy has advice i'd be pleased
thx, MP

[Garibaldi]

hmm.... interesting. Do you have all the dependencies installed? I would try posting over at www.linuxquestions.org too, my username there is Garibaldi3489. Did you install from source or from an rpm or some other package? Or with Portage?

[motionpic]

hi,
i installed it from source, the dependecies should be installed automaticly

when i run it as root i get the following error message:


bash-2.05b# cinelerra
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Cinelerra 1.1.7 Mi Dez 1 19:16:24 CET 2004 (C)2003 Heroine Virtual Ltd.

Cinelerra is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License,
and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under
certain conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for Cinelerra.
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

BC_DisplayInfo::init_window: cannot connect to X server.
Speicherzugriffsfehler

thx, mp

[Garibaldi]

hmm... Why does it need to connect to X Server? I'm on windoze now, I'll boot up linux in a little bit and see what my install says. BTW, just curious, what windowmanager are you using? I alternate between KDE and Fluxbox on my Slackware install.

[motionpic]

hi, i use kde 3.3, thx for your help, mp

[disturbed1]

http://gentoo-portage.com/media-video/cinelerra/bugs

or if you used the CVS ebuild

http://gentoo-portage.com/media-video/cinelerra-cvs/bugs

diagram to debug the code
http://cvs.cinelerra.org/devcorner/doxy/a118/guicast/html/classBC__WindowBase.html#h0

00527 Display* BC_WindowBase::init_display(char *display_name)
00528 {
00529 Display* display;
00530
00531 if(display_name && display_name[0] == 0) display_name = NULL;
00532 if((display = XOpenDisplay(display_name)) == NULL)
00533 {
00534 printf("BC_WindowBase::create_window: cannot connect to X server %s\n",
00535 display_name);
00536 if(getenv("DISPLAY") == NULL)
00537 {
00538 printf("'DISPLAY' environment variable not set.\n");
00539 exit(1);
00540 }
00541 else
00542 // Try again with default display.
00543 {
00544 if((display = XOpenDisplay(0)) == NULL)
00545 {
00546 printf("BC_WindowBase::create_window: cannot connect to default X server.\n");
00547 exit(1);
00548 }
00549 }
00550 }
00551 return display;
00552 }
00553

http://cvs.cinelerra.org/devcorner/doxy/a118/guicast/html/bcwindowbase_8C-source.html

From what I gather, you don't have your video options setup correctly for cinelerra.

Are you importing an uncompressed (RGB/YUY2) or compressed (DV/Quicktime) file.

[toudi]

when i run it as root i get the following error message:

dont run it as root lol
simple

[Steve Stepoway]

when i run it as root i get the following error message:

dont run it as root lol
simple

Amen! Don't run apps as root unless it's a system-related utility and you have to. Doing so is just asking for disaster.

bash-2.05b# cinelerra
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

You logged in as non-root, then su'd to root in a terminal and tried to run cinelerra, right? By default (in any distro I've seen) the X-server (it's what's responsible for drawing things on the screen) will not allow any user other than the one who logged in to write to the screen. It's a security issue. If not for that, it would be possible for arbitrary people to draw things on your screen. Not good. If you google that error message you'll find there is a way to allow other users to write to your X session screen, but as toudi said, don't run regular apps as root.

Steve