Re: [Mlt-devel] mlt won't play video files

2016-09-30 Thread Jesse Gordon
Thank you very much Dan, Incidentally, I've been heavily using the command line in Slackware for a third of my life. I'm a big fan of kinodv, it was simple, straight forward, and I could get done what I wanted. I've tried various newer video editors over the years since then, sometimes able

Re: [Mlt-devel] mlt won't play video files

2016-09-30 Thread Dan Dennedy
MLT is primarily a development framework. You are strongly encouraged to use a GUI app provided by your Linux distro such as Flowblade or Kdenlive. If you decide to continue with your own build, you should let pkg-config do the work of letting MLT configure find the FFmpeg libs instead of using --a

Re: [Mlt-devel] mlt won't play video files

2016-09-30 Thread Jesse Gordon
Oh blah, I meant to say that the jpeg file /displays/ fine, not that it displaces. Sorry. ~Jesse On 09/30/2016 08:50 PM, Jesse Gordon wrote: Some further info, and two specific questions: I tried playing a .jpeg file and that displaces. I can also specify color:red out=25 videofile.mpeg c

Re: [Mlt-devel] mlt won't play video files

2016-09-30 Thread Jesse Gordon
Some further info, and two specific questions: I tried playing a .jpeg file and that displaces. I can also specify color:red out=25 videofile.mpeg color:green and it plays the red and green fine but not the mpeg (Or any other video file I've tried so far.) I also tried a full path to my mpeg

Re: [Mlt-devel] serializing animated parameters with keyframes relative to end of transition/effect?

2016-09-30 Thread Harald Albrecht
Dan, thank you very much for your reply. My background is Kdenlive, and I think about supporting keyframes that stay relative to the end of a transition or a keyframable effect, regardless of resizing. So your last sentence is key to me. I've looked at the animated item code, and my impression is