Hi all
I have an issue that I can not resolve. On the project monitor and if I render the project, the video is cut in half and slanted to one side. Hard to describe what it is doing so here is a picture of what is going on.
http://imgur.com/7C8YB <- taken while playing back in kdenlive

Here is what that video should look like.
http://imgur.com/8ScU7 <- taken while paused in kdenlive

Now this video plays fine in VLC, mplayer, anything else I've tried only happens in kdenlive. The original video was a flv file. I've tried using ffmpeg to convert it to every other file type I can think of mp4, avi, mkv, even mov and wmv. Nothing works! I've even gone as far as converting the video to single jpgs and then stitching them back together with ffmpeg and I still get that weird slanted video output. Any help on how to either convert the video to something that kdenlive will play nice with or how to fix what is wrong in kdenlive would be great!

I'm rocking Fedora 14 2.6.35.12-88.fc14.i686 #1 SMP kdenlive is 0.7.7.1 and was installed from rpmfusion repo.

Thanks!

This has already been covered in the forums a few times and fixed. Thanks for looking.

yeah...about that what should I search? because any time I search for slanted video problem all I get is people asking how to make the video slant. What is this problem called?

And I've also found out that I cannot play back ANY video file. I so far have only used kdenlive to render text title clips. I've now tried to import many different type of video files, none play correctly!

So what is this problem called?

A search for "shearing" or "shearing distortion" would turn them up, but here are a few of the threads that at least partially discuss the problem:

http://kdenlive.org/forum/pan-scan-zoom

http://kdenlive.org/forum/shearing-distortion-0

I was having this problem too. It turns out you need up-to-date versions of MLT as that's where the problem was. I had a system where I had new versions but also had old versions lying around and an older version of kdenlive that was linked to the old version of MLT. So, if you're using repository packages, make sure you uninstall everything MLT and kdenlive and re-install recent versions.

Obviously others can load video files, and there is something fundamentally wrong on your system. Hard to say, but it sounds like MLT's avformat plugin is not working due to either missing or incompatible ffmpeg libs. Perhaps rpmfusion updated their ffmpeg libs but not all the dependent packages such as mlt.

Thank you drosky I build the program from source and now I have no issues!

For anyone on Fedora 14 that is reading this later that might be having the same issue follow the directions here:

http://www.mltframework.org/twiki/bin/view/MLT/BuildScripts

and remember that the yum packages are spelled different than the ubuntu packages. Most do not have lib in front of them --but SOME do and dev is normally devel and some need to typed in CAPS. use yum list to help you find all the packages.

All is good now. I also had corrupted mlt files.

I added a wiki page linked from that one on mltframework.org that lists packages and notes for Fedora 14:
http://www.mltframework.org/twiki/bin/view/MLT/FedoraPackages