https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390643
Bug ID: 390643
Summary: Installation unnecessarily complicated
Product: kdenlive
Version: unspecified
Platform: MS Windows
OS: MS Windows
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: major
Priority: NOR
Component: Installation
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
Two major usability issues for Windows users.
1. According to https://kdenlive.org/download/ , being able to encode to the
most effective and most widespread codec (h264/x264) requires complicated
additional steps.
After testing, it appears that without these steps, Kdenlive is not able to
OPEN h264 files either.
Audacity has a similarly annoying situation, that requires manual installation
of liblame-for-audacity for encoding. Decoding is supported by default at least
(still a huge usability issue).
Solution: Include ffmpeg the way it needs to be included with the windows
release.
Note: Free as in beer software is not even mentioned in
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Documents/avcweb.pdf . Also note the
word "distribute" is not mentioned. You are neither selling nor manufacturing
encoders/decoders. More info at
https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/14694/mp4-h-264-patent-issues
2. User also has to use (install) 7z instead of being able to use windows'
built-in unzip tool. Non-admin users might not be able to do this (students,
kids, public computer users). As much as I love 7z, requiring it is absolutely
non-standard and - again - can make it impossible to use Kdenlive.
Solution: provide kdenlive compressed in a zip file.
Related issue (also a Windows usability issue that occurs post-install): an app
should not require to be manually restarted before being usable.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390641
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