Kdenlive 0.7.6 and MLT 0.4.6 are currently building on my testing ppa. When finished they will be copied to my kdenlive stable ppa. Also working on Intrepid and Karmic packages.
I will update the Ubuntu packages install page when finished.



Edit : packages for Karmic Jaunty and Intrepid are ready. http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/downloading-and-installing-kdenlive/pre-compiled-packages/ubuntu-packages

Thanks for those! (And thanks for keeping us posted)

Thanks for this !

I have a problem of dependencies, i have no idea if this problem can be changed by modifing the ppa, but if yes, here is some info about it :

kdenlive:
Dépend : kdebase-runtime (>=4:4.2.4) mais (but) 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu1 doit être installé (has to be installed)

pepe

Installed tonight, Karmic, Toshiba AMD 64, running 32bit.

Using command 'melt -debug filename.mp4' correctly displays the video, but when the last frame is reached melt continued with the following output:
...
[filter gtkrescale] 1920x1080 -> 720x432 (yuv422)
[filter deinterlace] xine.deinterlace 1 prog 0 format yuv422
[filter gtkrescale] 1920x1080 -> 720x432 (yuv422)
[filter deinterlace] xine.deinterlace 1 prog 0 format yuv422
[filter gtkrescale] 1920x1080 -> 720x432 (yuv422)
[filter deinterlace] xine.deinterlace 1 prog 0 format yuv422
[filter gtkrescale] 1920x1080 -> 720x432 (yuv422)
[filter deinterlace] xine.deinterlace 1 prog 0 format yuv422
...
continues forever until 'q' or kill,
and processor remains at 100%

repeatable on all my mp4's.

Just noticed I'd been updated. Very smooth. Thank you so much :)

I have jaunty and I updated to 0.7.6 today with sunab-repository.

Kdenlive starts but is complaining I need MLT 0.4.5 but I have 0.4.6 i.e. the right one?

hello everyone,

First of all thank you for reporting about the quality of those packages.

Second, please be kind to tell which ubuntu version you are currently using, it will help me to debug (this topic is open for Intrepid, Jaunty and Karmic, and the packages are slightly different).

Third, if tou are trying to update, tell from what version you are upgrading (to optimize smooth old versions replacement)



About the kdebase-runtime dependency problem : i made a mistake, your system is requesting the backports version at some point (only jaunty i386 and lpia arch are affected). I will rebuild those packages to avoid that.

Edit : packages queued on soyuz, 2 hours to wait.
Edit 2 : packages rebuilt, all should be ok now.

@ xamiga : don't known about that, in my opinion it is not package related. File a bug report or try to reach Dan Denedy (mlt maintainer) on another topic.


ps : same problem here on jaunty amd64 arch.

@ Finnish : the correct version is the latest mlt 0.4.6 kdenlive 0.7.6.

- launch kdenlive
- menu configure>configuration wizard
- and follow the detection steps


any remaining problems?

@ sunab: thanks for the packages. A quick test shows they work great for me.

FYI I'm running karmic beta

I did have one problem. During the first run the first start screen showed I was missing mlt. This was fixed by removing the "kdenliverc" file in my home directory and then restarting. It is here: /home/[username]/.kde/share/config/kdenliverc

One other issue is I cannot render to x264 anymore, it is all red in render options box, but I think that is due to ffmpeg version being used may not include x264 support. I was thinking about building a version from source to fix this. Any thoughts?

I also noticed the recommended ffmpeg version for mlt is now r19873, but Karmic provides an older version. Any thoughts on if this will cause problems or not? I'm really trying to stay with packages instead of building everything from source.

Thanks, Geoff

@digitalranger : I made a mistake when building for jaunty, now the packages are rebuilt and only claim about the regular kdebase-runtime. [solved]

@geoffrey : the ffmpeg gap between the recommended version by Dan (MLT maintainer) and the karmic version shouldn't cause many problems. But using r19873 improves seeking in H.264 and MPEG2 transport streams, as MLT had been patched to support that on 2009-09-15.

I plan to build the recommended r19873 ffmpeg (in a a few hours) in another ppa to test it. I will look at x264 enabling at this time.

Thanks a lot Sunab,

This problem :

kdenlive:
Dépend : kdebase-runtime (>=4:4.2.4) mais (but) 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu1 doit être installé (has to be installed)

is now solved for me, with ubuntu jaunty 32 bits, upgradding kdenlive 0.7.5 to 0.7.6.

However I still have the problem of MLT 0.4.5 (Kdenlive starts but is complaining I need MLT 0.4.5 but I have 0.4.6 i.e.) and doing that :

- launch kdenlive
- menu configure>configuration wizard
- and follow the detection steps

doesn't solve the problem.

I've tried Geoffrey's solution for Karmic (but I have Jaunty) : "during the first run the first start screen showed I was missing mlt. This was fixed by removing the "kdenliverc" file in my home directory and then restarting. It is here: /home/[username]/.kde/share/config/kdenliverc", but it doesn't solve the problem.

Any ideas ?

Regards

hi pepe,

your problem with MLT 0.4.5 message is curious. I tested the many upgrades in a virtual machine Jaunty 32 bits, from kdenlive 0.7.3, 0.7.4 and 0.7.5 and I can't reproduce the problem. In my upgrade cases, when I launch kdenlive after an upgrade to 0.7.6, the kdenlive config wizard is launched first automatically and MLT 0.4.6 is detected without any problems.

Have you ever installed kdenlive in another way than packages (build-wizard or compiling from source by hand)?

An explanation about requesting MLT 0.4.5 can be you are executing kdenlive 0.7.5 and not O.7.6.

The message about MLT 0.4.5 could come if have a previous install of MLT. To check the MLT version, Kdenlive first uses pkgconfig.

The MLT pkgconfig file is called mlt-framework.pc and installed in:
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig (may depend on where you installed).

If you are using packages, that file is part of the mlt-devel package. So if you have not installed the new mlt-devel package, you might have an old mlt-framework.pc lying around.

To make sure, you can type:
melt --version

in a terminal, that will show you the correct MLT version. If it shows 0.4.6, you can ignore the Kdenlive warning, that is caused by a previous pkgconfig file...

@pepe: I misread your message. If Kdenlive asks for MLT 0.4.5, then you are not running Kdenlive 0.7.6

Kdenlive doesn't start after updating it... what should I do?