I need a video editor that runs on Linux, so I gotta learn Cinelerra. In fact, I have to learn it well enough to teach others.
I have it installed in Ubuntu Studio and Opensuse 10.3, but there are serious problems in Opensuse. I did a clean install, and used YAST to add mc, Nvu, Quanta, 1394 support and Realplayer, mp3 and win codec support via this link. http://opensuse-community.org/codecs-kde.ymp Finally I installed Cinelerra using YAST. But the menu in Cinelerra's program window is unresponsive. The only way to shut it off is to Ctl-Alt-Backspace and kill the X-server. Is this a problem anybody else has seen before? It occurred to me to start Cinelerra from the command line to see if there are any error messages I might understand. This is what I saw. ***************** FileSystem::update /usr/lib/cinelerra/mpeg2enc.plugin: No such file or directory MWindow::init_plugins: couldn't open /usr/lib/cinelerra directory ****************** Of course the directories did exist. But starting Cinelerra from the command line as root got the same message, I I do not think it's a permission issue. I would hate to waste all evening starting over again with another clean install, putting in Cinelerra FIRST and firing it up again between each thing I add with YAST to see which one breaks it, but do I have any alternative? Bruce Dixon Marietta GA, USA
