OK. So I run two copies of kdenlive, 0.9.10 on KDE 4.11.5 (openSUSE 13.1), and 16.08.2 on KDE framework 5.26.0 (Leap 42.2).

Now, the former works fairly well. As to the second, anytime I try to add a file to the Clip list, I get "Clip is invalid, will be removed from project". These are the same clips that do work in 0.9.10; I've allready checked that all the melt and libmlt libraries were OK.

In both case the software was installed from the repositories + Packman and in the case of 16.08.2 no update is proposed.

Why doesn't the latest version work with clips that do work with the old one?

Thierry

maybe you want to run the app image if possible to double check if it s kdenlive or the interaction with your specific system

https://kdenlive.org/download/

the latest version from packman is 3 months old...

http://packman.links2linux.org/package/kdenlive/793745

i am starting to think that opensuse isn't the best distro to use kdenlive... please try to contact them and ask them to update and fix their package.

thanks

Hello,
Do you have special characters in the file path?
What kind of clip is considered as invalid?
Is it properly played by melt? (run the "melt yourfile" in a terminal)

Thank you for your answers.

Kdenlive refuses to add any *.mp4 clip/file I can propose. melt also refuses to use them (message is "failed to load" <file>).

Some are files produced by Kdenlive 0.9.10 (H264/AAC), others were recorded by a Sony smartphone. As I said, what I don't understand is that an older Kdeblive on an older SUSE works. And yes, it may be openSUSE.

What would be the best distribution to run kdenlive (if possible not Ubuntu...)? Debian is not likely to offer the lastest Kdenlive, but maybe I could upgrade it.

Regards,

Thierry

tcoulon wrote:Kdenlive refuses to add any *.mp4 clip/file I can propose. melt also refuses to use them (message is "failed to load" <file>).

kdenlive should work fine in openSUSE, including support for mp4 files.
But, you need the ffmpeg/libav* libraries from Packman, the ones in the standard distribution don't support all codecs for legal reasons.

To make sure, do a "full repository vendor change update" to Packman, as described here:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Vendor_chan ... dor_change

Some are files produced by Kdenlive 0.9.10 (H264/AAC), others were recorded by a Sony smartphone. As I said, what I don't understand is that an older Kdeblive on an older SUSE works. And yes, it may be openSUSE.

Well, older openSUSE version did not contain ffmpeg at all. So there was also no chance to install the crippled included versions by mistake, it was only provided by Packman with full codec support.
Having it in the distribution (even if "crippled") allows to build other packages with ffmpeg support though.

But the full switch mentioned above is the recommended way to get full multimedia support since years.