I have to report some positive progress here. I upgraded ffmpeg Tuesday, created video clips again in Avidemux and - hooray - Kdenlive started to work with them. By the way, Avidemux offers 3 kinds of Mpeg format for saving a clip: - MPEG TS A+V - MPEG PS A+V - MPEG video stream I tried all of them and they seem to work, all playable and editable in Kdenlive, but which of them is suggested to be the best for editing purposes?
Espinosa > Congratulations on great work! Unfortunately, I have to start my mail list > attendance by a bugreport :( > Broken support of mpeg2 files in Kdenlive 0.4. > > Version: 0.4 > Suse Linux 10.2, latest Kdenlive from Packman repository. > > Attempt 1/ > I have downloaded a VOB file (1GB) from my DVD (originally craeted by TV set > top box DVD writer ). > Insert vob as video clip to Kdenlive empty project. Checked in clip property > dialog - all OK except sound (see note at the bottom). > > Tryed to play clip - sound was OK but picture in clip window didn't get > refreshed or I could see only very small variations, a few first frames > perhaps. > > I put whole VOB into timeline. Length was OK. Tried to play but the timeline > monitor showed the same behaving - sound OK, video didn't. Still just a > rather static image or a few first frames (cycling? loop?). After a frantic > clicking on timeline I finally managed once or twice to update picture in > timeline monitor. > > Razor seems to work OK, splits video stream and created right thumbnails. > > Variation 1.a: > Rernamed vob to mpeg - no difference. > > Variation 1.b: > Crated a small much smaller mpeg from the big one (cca 20MB) - no difference. > > > > Attempt 2/ > I wrapped a small piece of mpeg2 to OGG container using Avidemux2. Simply I > set A a B points, set copy method for A/V and OGG container (left panel) and > clicked on Save as.. > > Finally, Kdenlive started to partly work with my mpeg2 clip. But still it's > somewhat broken, picture in timeline monitor is not updated properly when you > click randomly on timeline, somewhat lags behind the place you choose on > timeline, but playback works (just hit play and picture is "fixed" in > timeline monitor after a few frames). > > Interesting is razor tool behaving. When moving razor cursor along the > timeline the picture in timeline monitor seems to be updated correctly, BUT, > Kdenlive started to leak memory after awhile (swap soars quickly) and > Kdenlive crashed. > > > > Attempt 3/ > I wrapped a small piece of mpeg2 to AVI container. In the same way as with > OGG. Kdenlive recognized video clip, but thumbnail was broken (mostly green), > size was right too, and attempt to put clip on timeline ended in immediate > Kdenlive crash. > > Another strange thing. Audio stream was newer recognized, I cannot see any > audio thumbnail, there is ) values in clip property window in audio section, > but sound is played OK during playback. > > I can upload my testing (a few mpeg) ogg on request. > > Probably I'm not the first one pointing at this problem. Was something fixed > in this area? Should I try to build my own Kdenlive + ffmpeg + MTL from SVN? > > Espinosa >
