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

2016-10-03 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Hi Jesse, Jesse Gordon writes: > It simply passes stuff on to melt, *unless* it gets a melt:filename, > then the perl script itself reads the filename, and inserts its > contents, recursively, which means a file can also have a > melt:filename line and so on and so forth, up to about 1024 deep >

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

2016-10-03 Thread Jesse Gordon
Well I got it working. Seems the key points were these: 1: ffmpeg needed to be configured with --enable-shared, which is not the default. 2: I had to set my $PKG_CONFIG_PATH to include /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ for mlt to build because that's where ffmpeg install was putting it's .pc files. 3:

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

2016-10-02 Thread Jesse Gordon
Blah, typos. Should be: smelt video1.mpg melt:s5.melt video2.mpg melt:s5.melt (Assuming smelt is copied to a place in the path. Otherwise, launch it with ./smelt or /full/path/to/smelt) K I go do something else and leave you guys alone for a bit :D ~Jesse On 10/02/2016 07:30 PM, Jesse Gordo

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

2016-10-02 Thread Jesse Gordon
Tomas, I wasn't even thinking earlier - I totally forgot that you wanted the command line to match melt. But now I have updated the smelt perl script so that its command line parameters are just melt commands. It simply passes stuff on to melt, *unless* it gets a melt:filename, then the p

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

2016-10-02 Thread Jesse Gordon
Tomas, I've cc'd you directly in case the mailing list strips attachments, because I've attached a simple perl script that does as you desire. I named it smelt. You can rename it as you like. On 10/02/2016 02:29 PM, Tomas Hlavaty wrote: It would be nicer, if I could create a file: example.me

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

2016-10-02 Thread Hungerburg
Hi Tomas, my take in the tail Am 2016-10-02 um 23:29 schrieb Tomas Hlavaty: > I simply write a shell script, something like: > > example.sh: > melt \ > -profile atsc_720p_25 \ > color:black out=24 \ > pic1.png out=115 \ > -mix 25 -mixer luma \ > vid1.mp4 in=5260 out=6775 \ > -mix 2

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

2016-10-02 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Hi Jesse, Jesse Gordon writes: > Fascinating! I was actually thinking of writing a perl wrapper script > that would take a mildly structured text list of statements to make melt > extremely convenient. > Since I just found out about mlt a few days ago I haven't given it much > thought as to wh

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

2016-10-01 Thread Jesse Gordon
Hi Tomas, > I only miss > - ability to write mlt files (command line style language, non-xml >files) which would allow for better factoring of complex videos, >e.g. using comments and includes Fascinating! I was actually thinking of writing a perl wrapper script that would take a mildl

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

2016-10-01 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Hi Jesse, > Then I found out about mlt and that is why I was so excited to see > that it had melt with it!! I have tried several GUI tools too but find cli melt the best too. I only miss - ability to write mlt files (command line style language, non-xml files) which would allow for better fac

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