Capture

* Firewire capture: DV and HDV

* Video4Linux capture: support for webcams (requires ffmpeg)

* Screen grab: grab your desktop or a region of it with sound (ffmpeg compiled with "--enable-x11grab" required)

I noticed yesterday that although I am able to select screeb grab in the capture monitor (as described also above), upon pressing the record button nothing is really captured.

I used the Builder Wizard indeed.

I wondered if I missed some dependency or so, but apparently it has to do with the Builder Wizard, or do I understand that wrong?

Perhaps I should recompile kdenlive as well after recompiling FFmpeg?

Thus I decided to run the KBW 0.6.0 again and then noticed (!) that upon pressing the " advanced" button the enable x11 grab support feature was by default unchecked!

(this is the same screen as where you can check "append date" and " install as root" underneath this there is the advanced button).

Thus I guess/hope that the problem was that by running the current wizard FFmpeg is not configured for x11 grab support by default.

@Mads: Perhaps this option (hidden under the advanced button) should be selected / marked on by default?

Now that I try to compile and install again via KBW and the x11grab support enabeld I get:

The operation was a failure.

This error was returned:'FAILURE Some kind of error occured: Unable to build ffmpeg'.

This is because it can only be done as root.

However when I try to use the option Install as root I get right at the beginning of the wizard this error message:

This error was returned:'FAILURE Some kind of error occured: Some kind of error occured while calling /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kdesu. Unable to proceed'.

To summarize I encountered two problems:

1) x11 grab support is not enabled by default

2) option 1) fails for apparently kdesu or kdesudo can not be called properly (is it possible to use su and sudo in the wizard instead of kdesu and kdesudo?), in the folder /usr/kde/3.5/bin/ however kdesu is present, so I do not know whether trying to install as root fails, one should expect a pop-up window demanding you for your root password.

Hi,

The error emssages that pops up immediately after I give the GO in " install as root" modus is:

The operation was a failure.

This error was returned:'FAILURE Some kind of error occured: Some kind of error occured while calling /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kdesudo. Unable to proceed'.

What do you want to do now: Close the wizard, view the log from the build process or continue? (Cancel this dialog)

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Of course in my /usr/kde/3.5/bin/ kdesu and kdesudo are present

In the view log it states in the part where it goes wrong:

(...)

KBWLOG: Checking for sudo requirement

KBWLOG: sudo is needed

KBWLOG: DCOPREF is kmdr-executor-7264, using kdesudo or kdesu

kdesudo: Onbekende optie: '--comment'. (dutch for unknown option: '--comment'.)

kdesudo: Gebruik --help voor een overzicht van de beschikbare commandoregelopties.

KBWERROR: Some kind of error occured while calling /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kdesudo. Unable to proceed

KBWTRACE: Entering feedback_result @ = FAILURE Some kind of error occured: Some kind of error occured while calling /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kdesudo. Unable to proceed

KBWTRACE: Entering feedback_status @ = FAILURE Some kind of error occured: Some kind of error occured while calling /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kdesudo. Unable to proceed

(...)

I use Pardus 2008.1 and KDE 3.5.10 and kernel 2.6.25.16-108

Option 2 that is as non-root trying to install in /tmp/kdenlive also fails when x11 grab support is enabeld:

pop-up window says:

The operation was a failure.

This error was returned:'FAILURE Some kind of error occured: Unable to build ffmpeg'.

What do you want to do now: Close the wizard, view the log from the build process or continue? (Cancel this dialog)

view log says:

cp -p ffmpeg_g ffmpeg

cp: kan het normale bestand 'ffmpeg' niet aanmaken: Toegang geweigerd (cannot build " normal file" ffmpeg: acces denied)

make: *** [ffmpeg] Fout 1

make: *** Wachten op onvoltooide taken...

KBWERROR: Unable to build ffmpeg

KBWTRACE: Entering feedback_result @ = FAILURE Some kind of error occured: Unable to build ffmpeg

KBWTRACE: Entering feedback_status @ = FAILURE Some kind of error occured: Unable to build ffmpeg

KBWTRACE: Entering cmd @ = dcop kmdr-executor-12239 KommanderIf setText LabelFeedback FAILURE Some kind of error occured: Unable to build ffmpeg

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I have now chmod-ded 777 ffmpeg and ffmpeg.g in the /ffmpeg source folder, and am trying one more time to see whether I can apss this point...

$ kdesudo --help
Gebruik: kdesudo [Qt-opties] [KDE-opties] command

Voert een programma uit met verhoogde toegangsrechten.

Algemene opties:
  --help                    Hulp over de opties tonen
  --help-qt                 Qt-specifieke opties tonen
  --help-kde                KDE-specifieke opties tonen
  --help-all                Alle opties tonen
  --author                  Auteurinformatie tonen
  -v, --version             Versie-informatie tonen
  --license                 Licentie-informatie tonen
  --                        Einde van de opties

Argumenten:
  command                   Specificeert het uit te voeren commando

Opties:
  -c               Specificeert het uit te voeren commando []
  -f                  Commando uitvoeren onder target uid als  niet schrijfbaar is []
  -u                  Specificeert de 'target uid' [root]
  -n                        Wachtwoord niet onthouden
  -s                        De daemon stoppen (alle wachtwoorden worden vergeten)
  -t                        Terminaluitvoer inschakelen (wachtwoorden worden niet vastgelegd).
  -p                  Prioriteitswaarde instellen: 0 <= prio <= 100, 0 is het laagst [50]
  -r                        Realtime scheduling gebruiken
  --nonewdcop               Laat commando bestaande DCOP-server gebruiken
  --noignorebutton          Knop 'Negeren' verbergen
  -i             Pictogram opgeven om te gebruiken in de wachtwoorddialoog
  -d                        Het commando dat wordt uitgevoerd niet in de dialoog tonen

$ kdesudo --version
Qt: 3.3.8b
KDE: 3.5.10
KDE su: 1.0

OK I will await the special version and then start that one including new downloads in a new folder and give it another try.

I appreciate the time you spend helping me, but I guess somehow I am helping you to optimise the wizard as well :D

PS what I would like to emphasise that as mentioned I did succes to install Kdenlive 0.7.0 by use of the Wizard 0.6.0 but ONLY as non-root (problem 1) and that bot as root or non-root I get error messages when I try to install with x11grab support enabled (in disabled mode I apparently somehow succeede in installing).

Will try one more time without the append date setting marked.

trying now as non-root with source dir /tmp with no previous source files present in it and option download, compile and install

(which may take a while...)

problem 1 is (of course) solved: x11grab support is now marked enabled by defaultin the wizard

pop ups says:

The operation was a success.

[...]

and yes screen grab does the " capturing..." now as it should

That leaves only the install as root problems I had but those are not really relevant for me then now that all installs fine.