Hi, Andrew, sorry for the late reply and THANK YOU for the information about nvenc below.

as you can see it choked at "git clone yes ffmpeg.git" ... may be removing 'yes' will make it work, until finish or at least next err... Time to patch.

GG checked a patch into the GIT repository today. The short response is use the latest GIT with this:

#!/bin/bash
( ./autogen.sh
./configure --with-single-user --with-booby --with-git-ffmpeg=https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
make && make install ) 2>&1 | tee log
mv Makefile Makefile.cfg
cp Makefile.devel Makefile

He says you will understand the above. Basically you do not provide the "yes" but rather the actual URL location of the ffmpeg git.

The procedure for obtaining the latest ffmpeg IS NOT KEPT UP-TO-DATE. So the line numbers will always change. He generally only updates those line numbers when he adds a new released/stable version of ffmpeg to CinelerraGG. Ffmpeg is constantly changing and many times the git version is not as stable as desired (just like CinGG sometimes in the middle of the month.) But he has updated it today and he ran it and it built correctly so it should for you too.

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PS: reason why I tried this was interesting commit in ffmpeg, removing nvenc from non-free:

WHOA!!! Huge Thank You for discovering this and passing it along.

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Also, I found this text, explaining various options you can pass to hw encoders:

https://gist.github.com/Brainiarc7/4b49f463a08377530df6cecb8171306a
FFmpeg and libav's playbook: Advanced encoding options with hardware-based acceleration, NVIDIA's NVENC and Intel's VAAPI-based encoder.
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ffmpeg -h encoder=h264_vaapi

Encoder h264_vaapi [H.264/AVC (VAAPI)]:
General capabilities: delay
Threading capabilities: none
Supported pixel formats: vaapi_vld
h264_vaapi AVOptions:
-qp <int> E..V.... Constant QP (for P-frames; scaled by qfactor/qoffset for I/B) (from 0 to 52) (default 20)
-quality <int> E..V.... Set encode quality (trades off against speed, higher is faster) (from 0 to 8) (default 0)
-low_power <int> E..V.... Use low-power encoding mode (experimental: only supported on some platforms, does not support all features) (from 0 to 1) (default 0)
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I will have to study the meaning of the above.

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Also, I wonder if some ffmpeg filters, based on va-api (deinterlace, scale, brightness ...) or opencl will work for at least Intel/AMD ... But then Cinelerra probably should understand what kind of hw (GPU) based filters attached to track, and not call download from GPU until first sw effect appear ... (a bit like it should work with OpenGL today).

Hmmm. GG has not had a chance to think about this yet. But first he is going to see if he can get ffmpeg nvenc working with Cinelerra. Earlier when he first looked into it, there was still a requirement for a lot more libraries to be included. gg/Phyllis