Cine Encoder

Cine Encoder is an application, uses the FFmpeg, MKVToolNix and MediaInfo utilities, that allows to convert media files while preserving HDR metadata. Supported hardware encoding NVENC and Intel QSV (for Windows and experimental for Linux). The following encoding modes are implemented: H265, H264, VP9, MPEG-2, XDCAM, XAVC, DNxHR, ProRes.

By default, there are several categories of presets. You can change existing or add your own presets.

Installation

Supported operating system: Linux x86_64, Windows 8.1/10 x86_64.

Make sure that the NVIDIA drivers are installed in accordance with the following requirements: Using FFMPEG with NVIDIA.

- Arch Linux / Manjaro Linux:

• install AUR package or cine-encoder-(ver)_manjaro_x86_64.pkg.tar.xz file from release

- Debian 10.6 / Ubuntu 20.04 / Linux Mint 20:

• install file cine-encoder-(ver)_amd64.deb from release

- Fedora 33:

• to satisfy ffmpeg dependency Fedora users have to use rpmfusion (https://rpmfusion.org/)
• install file cine-encoder-(ver)_fedora33_x86_64.rpm from release

- CentOS 7.8:

• to satisfy ffmpeg dependency CentOS users have to use rpmfusion (https://rpmfusion.org/)
• install file cine-encoder-(ver)_centos7_x86_64.rpm from release

*ver - current version

Buid instructions

Install dependencies:

- Arch Linux / Manjaro Linux:

- gcc
- qt5-base
- qt5-multimedia
- qt5-svg
- qt5-x11extras
- libmediainfo
- libxext

- ffmpeg
- mkvtoolnix-cli
- intel-media-driver
- libva-intel-driver

- Debian / Ubuntu / Linux Mint:

- gcc
- qt5-qmake
- qtbase5-dev
- qtmultimedia5-dev
- libqt5svg5-dev
- libqt5x11extras5-dev
- libmediainfo-dev
- libxext-dev

- ffmpeg
- mkvtoolnix
- i965-va-driver

- Fedora / CentOS:

- gcc-c++
- qt5-qtbase-devel
- qt5-qtmultimedia-devel
- qt5-qtsvg-devel
- qt5-qtx11extras-devel
- libmediainfo-devel
- libXext-devel

- ffmpeg
- mkvtoolnix
- intel-media-driver
- libva-intel-driver

Buld package:

mkdir build
cd build
git clone https://github.com/CineEncoder/cine-encoder.git
cd cine-encoder
qmake-qt5 -o builddir/Makefile app/cine_encoder.pro -spec linux-g++ CONFIG+=qtquickcompiler (or for Debian:  /usr/lib/qt5/bin/qmake -o builddir/Makefile app/cine_encoder.pro -spec linux-g++)
cd builddir
make

Run:

./cine_encoder -platform xcb

Tracking the development of the project

Next release version: 3.5. Estimated release date: Jun 18 2022. To tracking the development of the project see Project page

Licence

GNU GPL v.3 See LICENSE.md

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