Hi all,

On my up-to-date Ubuntu 14.04 I have tried Kdenlive using the lastest Appimage version (16.12.2). I have had proxi view activated and only had two short 1080p files in my project plus a simple transition. 'htop' was showing that my 2 physical cores (4 threads) were close to the 100% upon playback in Kdenlive. My question is, is that normal? Does the OpenGL message have anything to do with it?

OpenGL MESSAGE UPON START-UP:
OpenGL vendor: "Intel Open Source Technology Center"
OpenGL renderer: "Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile "
OpenGL Threaded: false
OpenGL ARG_SYNC: true
OpenGL OpenGLES: false
OpenGL vendor: "Intel Open Source Technology Center"
OpenGL renderer: "Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile "
OpenGL Threaded: false
OpenGL ARG_SYNC: true
OpenGL OpenGLES: false


MY SYSTEM
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4210U CPU @ 1.70GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 4
bus info: cpu@0
version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4210U CPU @ 1.70GHz
serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
slot: U3E1
size: 2034MHz
capacity: 2034MHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 100MHz
configuration: cores=2 enabledcores=2 threads=4
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: b
slot: L1 Cache
size: 32KiB
capacity: 32KiB
capabilities: synchronous internal write-back instruction
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: c
slot: L2 Cache
size: 256KiB
capacity: 256KiB
capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified
*-cache:2
description: L3 cache
physical id: d
slot: L3 Cache
size: 3MiB
capacity: 3MiB
capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified
*-cache
description: L1 cache
physical id: a
slot: L1 Cache
size: 32KiB
capacity: 32KiB
capabilities: synchronous internal write-back data
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 2a
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 8GiB
*-bank:0
description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz (0.6 ns)
product: HMT41GS6AFR8A-PB
vendor: Hynix
physical id: 0
serial: 0878058F
slot: DIMM0
size: 8GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 1600MHz (0.6ns)
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 0b
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=hsw_uncore
resources: irq:0
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 0b
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:47 memory:b2000000-b23fffff memory:a0000000-afffffff ioport:4000(size=64)

Do the clips show up with a "P" in the thumbnail in the project tree? Then a proxy has been created.
Backgroupd of the question: If you switch to proxies after adding the clips you have to create proxies manually (right click clip and select "Proxy Clip".

The 'p' is not shown. Also, when I try to manually convert the clips to proxy clips via 'right click' --> 'proxy clip', the proxy clip option is greyed out, hence I can't choose this option. ..Do I need a different project setting?

You need to enable proxies in your project settings, at the bottom of the project settings. Then you will be able to create proxy files.

I did activate proxy clips in the project settings. This was the first thing I did after creating this project. However, the right mouse click --> 'Proxy Clip' option remains greyed out. Shall I file a bug report?

johannka wrote:I did activate proxy clips in the project settings. This was the first thing I did after creating this project. However, the right mouse click --> 'Proxy Clip' option remains greyed out. Shall I file a bug report?

This is the third time i see this kind of doubt... should we do something about it? Maybe write as post in the toolbox?

This is my answer from another post:

There are 2 places for you to enable proxies.

In the main menu bar go to Project -> Projects Settings and under the Settings tab you will be able to enable the Proxy clips.

The other is in Configure -> Configure Kdenlive and you can enable under the Project Defaults tab.

Please check it is enabled in both and let me know.