Hi folks,

I've installed KDENLIVE both, from source and via apt-get and have been successful either way. My OS is Kubuntu 7.04.

When I start the application, a MsgBox appears and informs my, that the program "cannot find your MLT installation, please give the path". If I try to locate the MLT installation i get:

$ whereis mlt
mlt: /usr/include/mlt /usr/share/mlt

When I run a (as far as I understand) MLT-based application like miracle or inigo no problem about not finding the MLT installation is reported.

So why does this MsgBox keep me asking?

I appreciate any suggestions!

Thank you very much

Corbin

You need to provide the prefix where MLT is installed. In your case, it is:

/usr

I am working on the issue so that Kdenlive can find it without user interaction.

regards

Thank you for your response! Unfortunately the window pops up again instantly.

So i figure that either /usr is not the correct path or somehow my input will not be remembered (i.e stored into a file?).

Being not familiar with the MLT framework, I don't know if there should be some kind of executable program or something similar. But I can't find any. I will post a directory listing of the two directories. I hope this can help you telling me, if there is somethin missing.

Again: thank you for your help

Cheers

Corbin

$ cd /usr/include/mlt

$ ll
total 28K
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K 2007-08-01 00:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 82 root root  12K 2007-08-01 00:17 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K 2007-08-01 01:56 framework
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K 2007-08-01 01:56 miracle
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K 2007-08-01 01:56 valerie

$ ll *
framework:
total 104K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2007-08-01 01:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K 2007-08-01 00:15 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_consumer.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.2K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_deque.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.1K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_events.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_factory.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_field.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.2K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_filter.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.2K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_frame.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.0K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_geometry.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.3K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_multitrack.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.3K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_parser.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.9K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_playlist.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_pool.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.2K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_producer.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_properties.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_property.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_repository.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.5K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_service.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.5K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_tokeniser.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.1K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_tractor.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.5K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_transition.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.0K 2007-08-01 01:56 mlt_types.h

miracle:
total 20K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2007-08-01 01:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K 2007-08-01 00:15 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K 2007-08-01 01:56 miracle_local.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K 2007-08-01 01:56 miracle_log.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0K 2007-08-01 01:56 miracle_server.h

valerie:
total 48K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2007-08-01 01:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K 2007-08-01 00:15 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.8K 2007-08-01 01:56 valerie.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K 2007-08-01 01:56 valerie_notifier.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.4K 2007-08-01 01:56 valerie_parser.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K 2007-08-01 01:56 valerie_remote.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9K 2007-08-01 01:56 valerie_response.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6K 2007-08-01 01:56 valerie_socket.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9K 2007-08-01 01:56 valerie_status.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6K 2007-08-01 01:56 valerie_tokeniser.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K 2007-08-01 01:56 valerie_util.h
$

$ cd /usr/share/mlt/
$ ll
total 24K
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4.0K 2007-08-01 01:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 317 root root  12K 2007-08-01 00:26 ..
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root 4.0K 2007-08-01 01:56 modules
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  196 2007-08-01 01:56 packages.dat

$ ll *
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  196 2007-08-01 01:56 packages.dat

modules:
total 2.1M
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K 2007-08-01 01:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K 2007-08-01 01:56 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  221 2007-08-01 01:56 consumers.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.6K 2007-08-01 01:56 data_fx.properties
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K 2007-08-01 00:15 feeds
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  668 2007-08-01 01:56 fezzik.dict
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  537 2007-08-01 01:56 fezzik.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  954 2007-08-01 01:56 filters.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 127K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltavformat.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 212K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltcore.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  47K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltdv.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  26K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltfezzik.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  97K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltgtk2.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  31K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltinigo.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  52K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltkdenlive.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 350K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltkino.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  96K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltmotion_est.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  25K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltnormalize.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  57K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltplus.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 129K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltqimage.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  18K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltresample.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 119K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltsdl.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 351K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltsox.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  20K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltvalerie.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  45K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltvmfx.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  24K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltvorbis.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 130K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltwestley.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  30K 2007-08-01 01:56 libmltxine.so
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K 2007-08-01 00:15 lumas
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  512 2007-08-01 01:56 producers.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  113 2007-08-01 01:56 transitions.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K 2007-08-01 01:56 westley.dtd

Kdenlive needs a very recent MLT svn version.

Current MLT svn installs profile files in : $prefix/share/mlt/profiles

Where $prefix seems to be /usr in your case. I think you are using an old MLT version that doesn't provide the profiles stuff. Please try uninstalling MLT, updating to the latest svn MLT version and reinstall MLT.

regards

jb