Hi all,
I am a little discomforted about the situation of linux video editors (at least on openSUSE).
I have kdenlive from packman installed, but it crashes as soon as I try to start it up, with a “segmentation fault” message.
I have installed cinelerra from packman. It starts and apparently works well, but whenever I try to import an mpeg-2 video I get this error:
new_vcodec: couldn't find codec for "MPEG"
I have all codecs from packman installed AFAICT. Also, cinelerra says “External ffmpeg” while starting up, so I would expect it to use ffmpeg which is certainly able to deal with MPEG encoded files.
I tried to install LiVES from packman but I am not able to install it because of this error:
Problem: nothing provides dvgrab needed by LiVES-2.4.6-1.2.x86_64
I installed LightWorks downloading the RPM from their site. The official 12.5.0 release starts correctly, but after entering the (free) registration details it crashes with a segmentation fault. Their support instructed me to download the recent 12.6.D beta release, but this one does not install because libcrypto.so.10 is missing and nothing provides it. Since I had a libcrypto.so.1.0.0 in my /lib directory, I tried to symlink it to libcrypto.so.10 and force install. Now LightWorks starts but never shows a window. After 10 minutes of waiting I killed it.
I installed Natron which seems to work well, but its interface is very different from other non-linear video editors so I gave up on this one (at least until I have more time to study it).
Kino and openShot work well but apparently don’t have the features I need (still exploring OpenShot to see if it can be made to fit my needs).
Install kdenlive from the standard Leap repos.
Packman doesn’t provide it for Leap, if you still have the old 13.2 version installed it will crash as it is the KDE4 version and requires a Qt4 based libmlt and frei0r-plugins (they are Qt5 based in Leap, causing the crash on startup).
For the rest, make sure you did a full switch to Packman.
I cannot tell you whether they work, but I think they should. The likely problem is that you have the crippled ffmpeg packages from the standard openSUSE repos.
Wolfi, I am on Tumbleweed, not on Leap. Tumblweed’s standard repo doesn’t provide kdenlive.
My kdenlive is v15.12.1 from packman repo. And yes, I did a full switch to packman and my ffmpeg comes from there.
I see that you have kdenlive in your Tumbleweed KF5 repo, but since it is a little older than packman’s it won’t be installed. I could force it, but it will be overwritten at the next dup, I believe (unless you update it with a newer revision, that is).
I am presently working with Pitivi, which - though quite buggy - seems to be the best of the bunch, at least for my experience.
Tumblweed’s standard repo doesn’t provide kdenlive.
Sorry, but you are wrong there.
The Tumbleweed repos do contain kdenlive. Leap took it from Tumbleweed.
Try to switch back, maybe it helps.
kdenlive is only a GUI frontend anyway, the standard openSUSE version has no drawbacks.
My kdenlive is v15.12.1 from packman repo.
Yeah, right. My mistake.
They do provide it for Tumbleweed/Factory.
Maybe it’s just a timing issue though. Tumbleweed still has KDE:Applications 15.12.0, 15.12.1 is on the way…
I see that you have kdenlive in your Tumbleweed KF5 repo, but since it is a little older than packman’s it won’t be installed. I could force it, but it will be overwritten at the next dup, I believe (unless you update it with a newer revision, that is).
It’s not older, but just has a lower rebuild number. You cannot compare that between different repos.
But you shouldn’t install it anyway.
Sorry, can’t help you more at the moment, I don’t use Tumbleweed. The Packman stuff works fine here on 13.2.
But I’ll try in my Tumbleweed VM tomorrow.
Will take a bit longer probably though, because I have to update it first as well…
In a past version of openSuse (can’t remember which), I somehow borked my installation of Kdenlive, and couldn’t get it to work by re-installing. I tried the install script, and it built a “local” version, with all dependencies in it’s own directory. You could try that, and if it doesn’t work, you can just delete that directory - it will be in your “Home” partition.
Edit: here’s the direct route to it, the original link had a few other links to go through
