Hi,

glad to see people using my packages, but I recently moved kdenlive packages to better named ppas :

ppa:sunab/kdenlive-release for stable versions

ppa:sunab/kdenlive-svn to track svn trunk (empty at this moment)

I have already updated the download section of this website.

I looked around Frei0r plugins 1.2, and the packaging is now ok (had some problems), the packages will be in the related ppas probably tomorrow.


Sunab.

Sunab, people like you give a strong chance to newbies to move fearless towards free software. I can't wait to try the new tools. Thanks a lot for your work.
So, if I understood right, I just have to use the repo in the download section and wait for frei0r update to come. Great.
Can you tell me please what are ffmpeg-debian and ffmpeg-extra? Can I install them? Are they newer than the ffmpeg packages we find in the official Lucid repository?
Ignazio

@lordofthestrings,

You understand right, you just have to wait. (and reload your package manager to get the update).

About your ffmpeg question : be VERY careful! ffmpeg and the related libraries (libavformat, libavdevice, libavcodec,libpostproc, libavfilter, libswscale) are a the basement of many applications. FFmpeg is a very active project, and dealing with new video/sound codecs and conatineers requires breaking compatiblity with previous versions. This means that if you upgrade your distro ffmpeg versions you may expect breakage in all programs depending on ffmpeg libs. My advice for a newcomer is not changing from the official ffmpeg version of your distro.

About extra libs, they are in official repositories, they bring support for restricted (with patents in some part of the world) codecs/formats. My kdenlive packages forces (it is very bad, I know) installation of ffmpeg extra libs, to ensure that a wide range of codecs will be available. One note about the aac encoder, it is not activated in the ubuntu repositories even with extra libs (so the kdenlive H264/aac encoding profile is disabled). If needed you may want to use the Medibuntu repositories which contains the SAME ffmpeg version but with an acc encoder activated (note : relative poor quality)

Sunab.

Hi Sunab, thanks for the PPA, but I' having a bit of difficulty, everything is working except the frei0r plugins are not listed in the effects list, the folders are there just no contents. I've uninstalled and reinstalled but no good. I have the Frei0r 1.22git.

@yellow,

what happens if you type a letter for example "a" (without quotes) in the search bar at the top of effects list ? Are you using GTK+ style for KDE wigdets? Using Maverick or Lucid?

sunab, thanks, typing a letter does it, no problem. :-)

But simply clicking on a folder like "Audio" does nothing? The folder is expected to deploy itself when clicked...

Please check what happens if you select a folder and then press Enter.
On the laptop I can open folders in the effect list with single clicks. On the PC, where I've set KDE to use double clicks for opening files/directories/etc., I have to press enter in order to open a directory in there.
If it is the same there, then this really is a bug and not just an anomaly found on my PC ;)

On my laptop I have no problem with deploying effects folders when I set Oxygen sytle in KDE systemsettings, but when I select the GTK+ style(I use a Gnome, sorry), the effects folders seem to be stuck, and will not deploy until I use the search bar or press enter.

@Granjow, on your PC you seem to have the same behaviour. Theme related?