The installation of Resolve worked great through ujust install-resolve - it also launches just fine - awesome!
But it seems like, no matter which format/codec i try to convert (eg: mkdir transcoded; for i in .MP4; do ffmpeg -i “$i” -vcodec mjpeg -q:v 2 -acodec mp3 -q:a 0 -f mov "transcoded/${i%.}.mov"; done ) my MP4 file from GoPro to - the preview field remains blank - and nothing happens when i hit play. I have tried with both 8 and 10 bit files, no difference.
The file tested here, work just fine when playing in Haruna.
I can help but wonder if there is some silly setting i need to change in Resolve, a missing codec i need to install or some VERY specific codec I should convert to.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
P.s. Kdenlive works just fine, but i would very much like to get Resolve working, as that is the one application i have not got working - and i really would love to leave Windows for good now.
Hi what is the video encoding format? H.264, AV1 etc? Davinci Resolve on Linux is very stingy when it comes to video encoding support. If I remember correctly, on AMD GPUs, H264 and H265 is not supported by default, for example.
I did find a list of supported formats, and tried a good few that 1: is supported by the free version of Resolve in Linux and 2: is supported by AMD GPUs.
I found that as long a I use MP3 for audio, I sound be grand… I think that the audio format should work, as in the image in my post, when I opted for MP3, it does show an audio… histogram?
I then tried a few different video codecs such as DNxHR, mjpeg - but to no use - nothing plays in the project.
So I expect that I need to seek out a super specific combination of video and audio, for Resolve to accept it.
I am currently trying out Kdenlive, and it could maaaaybe be an alternative, if I have to give up on Resolve.
I honestly couldn’t recommend Kdenlive more. I was introduced to Kdenlive the same way you did, out of necessity and can’t go back to any other editor now. Your mileage might vary, of course.
Basically, DaVinci is a PITA when it comes to Linux. They’re too picky with what they do and do not support. I hope you can find something that works for you. Have fun!
I believe I found that list the other day, but moved on when they named the Linux section “Rocky Linux 8.6 (CUDA)” - nVidia and a different distro than I have.
But just gave it a shot, converted to some of the mentioned codecs (as i read it…), such as dnxhd/dnxhr_lb, rawvideo/yuv420p, prores_ks/yuv422p10le - no difference.
Just for fun, I tried to generate a test clip using ffmpeg -f lavfi -i testsrc=duration=5:size=1280x720:rate=25 -c:v mpeg2video -q:v 2 -c:a pcm_s16le test.mov - same issue.
If anyone can suggest something else to try using the script, for a test video - I’d love to try.
But yeah - at this point Kdenlive seems like the better (and only) option for me
