I am running Slackware 13.37 64 bit

I installed kdenlive via the binary packages via this site... it all went fine...

except the version of ffmpeg on here doesn't seem to have been built properly as it's missing binary files in it... I did report it but not heard back...

anyway as the ffmpeg was incorrect I used alienbobs build of ffmpeg and that installed fine.


Kdenlive is running fine.. ffmpeg is running fine... but kdenlive refuses to find ffmpeg.



my pastebin of the output of 'ffmpeg': http://pastebin.com/3gPfp5n2


the ffmpeg binary is located: /usr/bin/ffmpeg

Similar problem over here on Kubuntu 12.04 64bit: problem with ffmpeg and libav. Cannot render to H.264, missing sound, and many other rendering problems. :(

I had same problem when running the "configure script" which reported ffmpeg was not present ..

I then installed another video editor that had a dependency that needed libav to be downgraded...

-then the configure script suddenly reported ffmpeg present ;-)

I am still having the same issue and have found no solution.

I have ffmpeg.
I have kdenlive.

Kdenlive refuses to be able to detect that ffmpeg is installed.

Which version of Kdenlive? Also, MLT - the video framework behind Kdenlive (its packages are called melt, libmlt*) heavily relies on Ffmpeg. You cannot simply compile another FFmpeg version and hope that MLT (and Kdenlive) will work with it.

So unless you have a good experience in compiling and dependencies, I think you should either:

*use your distro packages - and give us more infos on which error message you see in Kdenlive, which MLT and Kdenlive versions

*or, use the build script that will download and create a local install of the latest de elopment versions of FFmpeg, MLT and Kdenlive. Build script for Kdenlive can be found here:
http://www.mltframework.org/bin/view/MLT/BuildScripts

I used the Slackware packages found via this site

however ffmpeg for Slackware on here has been incorrectly packaged.. I did report it but it's still the same... the ffmpeg Slackware package on here doesn't contain FFmpeg binaries at all!

I had to use alien bobs ffmpeg.