kdenlive's upstream maintainer, Jean-Baptiste Mardelle wrote that he pushed a fix into branch 'Applications/17.12'[1].
That's the good news.
The bad news?
I tested debian's version 17.12.1-1 and it was
still broken.
I worked around it again by changing
/usr/share/kdenlive/export/profiles.xml
from
acodec=vorbis
to
acodec=libvorbis
So,
Kingsley
[1] Changing "acodec=vorbis" to "acodec=libvorbis" fixes a SIGSEGV
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388503
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