yes I tried deleting the file and it didn't help. I really like Ubuntu and it is a shame that the upgrades just don't go smoothly.

yes I tried deleting the file and it didn't help. I really like Ubuntu and it is a shame that the upgrades just don't go smoothly.

You could try removing all traces of ffmpeg modules like libavcodec, libavformat etc and uninstall reinstall kdenlive or maybe first run the dbg version of kdenlive found in synaptic and or run kdenlive from a terminal to see what might be causing the error, I've found kdenlive stable on one machine unstable on another. Same versions of all.

Does kdenlive crash at start up or just when using the wizard?

I think I'm almost there. I now have 0.8.2 Kdenlive and I don't get that same error message anymore. However it's telling me as go thru the wizard that I need to upgrade from MLT 07.4 to 0.7.6 I downloaded the mlt-0.7.6.tar.gz file and now I have no idea what to do with it? Do I extract it to a folder? Which one. I hear others talking about a package manager and I have no idea what they mean as this version of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneinc doesn't have the Synaptic package Manager on it?

Do not use the tar.gz file, it is only the source code and requires a good linux knowledge to compile.
Process like this (in a terminal):

1) remove all MLT / Kdenlive packages:

sudo apt-get remove kdenlive libmlt* melt

2) make sure you have added the sunab repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sunab/kdenlive-release && sudo apt-get update

3) re-install kdenlive:

sudo apt-get install kdenlive


These 3 steps will install the latest Kdenlive / MLT packages from the sunab repository which is the recommanded way to install Kdenlive on ubuntu.

Hope it helps.