Hi all,

I've been using Kdenlive for the past month or so with no issues and have loved every minute of it, until last night, when it's just stopped working. When I drag a clip into the timeline, it appears fine and is in the timeline, but when I press space to play the timeline clip, or try to skip forward/backward frames noting happens. Even clicking to manually change the frame does nothing, although the time indicator moves, the frame being displayed doesn't. The clips play OK from the project tree. I can't seem to get it to work; projects I was previously working on with no issues have stopped working too, so I know it wasn't just the particular clip.

I've tried installing and uninstalling, purging, shutting down, restarting, reinstalling, throwing my computer out of the window, but nothing seems to work. It's very peculiar as it was fine on Friday evening but not working on Saturday evening with no update done to my knowledge.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm really enjoying using Kdenlive!

Deets:
Lenovo Z51-70
i7-5500, 16gb memory
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty (dual boot with windoze 10)
kdenlive version 0.9.10 using KDE platform 4.13.3
...not sure if you need any other information!

I'm new to linux so please be gentle!

Cheers, Andy

Assuming that there was no update on ffmpeg and mlt and that the sort of clips did not change:
Maybe you can solve it by deleting the kdenliverc file which should be somewhere in your personal folder. I remeber it was like ~/.kde4/share/kdenliverc or so.

Odd behaviour has been solved in renaming/removing the file (it will be created when not present) in the past.

Thanks, I'm having a look into this. I can't seem to find the folder location you're referring to, any chance you culd dumb it down a little bit for me please? Thanks!

IT WORKED!

Thank you very much!

The kdenliverc file was located at ~/.kde/share/config for anyone else wishing to know!

Glad to get you back to work.

I would like to add... because I had a similar experience but it was solved differently....

The 'views' such as Histogram and RGB Parade can crush the CPU and cause very unresponsive playback even on an empty timeline ...and are easy to forget (just humor me on that point ) when turning them on to do grading and then going back to proxys.