Starting a new project, I added a clip I browsed to. It's raw MP4 video, and VLC and other players can display it. Kdenlive, however, says it's invalid. The work-around is to define a custom project folder using the videos' pathway. Why would the project folder cause a clip to be rejected as having bad data???

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Still looking for info on why using a custom project folder keeps MP4's from being marked as invalid.

Hello
Maybe when having the media in the project directory, Kdenlive uses relative paths that are OK,
while when accessing files out of the project hierarchy is then uses absolute paths that got messed up
(sometimes the error message shows path beginning with "/" - the unix path style - and MLT doesn't find the file, handled as invalid)
This is a "simple" Windows port bug, that "someone" could solve rather easily... but need to find who/when

Makes sense to me - thanks!

Now, if the "white text on white text" issue for pathway windows can be fixed, plugging in absolute paths will be easier to do.