[Mlt-devel] melt: add support for consumer in/out

2018-12-07 Thread jb
Hi, In shotcut, the tag is used in the playlist's xml to pass consumer arguments, allowing to render a playlist file with melt whitout passing extra arguments. I am considering using the same approach for Kdenlive, but there is one small missing feature for us: it would be useful to allow re

Re: [Mlt-devel] melt: add support for consumer in/out

2018-12-07 Thread Dan Dennedy
On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 11:27 AM jb wrote: > Hi, > > In shotcut, the tag is used in the playlist's xml to pass > consumer > arguments, allowing to render a playlist file with melt whitout passing > extra > arguments. > > I am considering using the same approach for Kdenlive, but there is one > sm

[Mlt-devel] Best video format(s) for realtime melt?

2018-12-07 Thread Tom Murphy
The "Films By Kris" tutorials recommend using ffmpeg with "-vcodec dnxhd" to convert video before handing it off to melt, because DNxHD is apparently good for realtime processing with MLT and melt. Is it (still) the case that DNxHD is the "best" for use with melt in realtime mode (i.e. not writing

Re: [Mlt-devel] Best video format(s) for realtime melt?

2018-12-07 Thread Tom Murphy
Ah, and another criterion I forgot but could be important is the ability to quickly seek / jump around in a melt video. Tom On 12/7/18, Tom Murphy wrote: > The "Films By Kris" tutorials recommend using ffmpeg with "-vcodec > dnxhd" to convert video before handing it off to melt, because DNxHD >

Re: [Mlt-devel] Best video format(s) for realtime melt?

2018-12-07 Thread Dan Dennedy
On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 11:55 AM Tom Murphy wrote: > Ah, and another criterion I forgot but could be important is the > ability to quickly seek / jump around in a melt video. > > Some people in the Shotcut forum working on proxy and intermediate file workflows seem mostly impressed with the Ut Vid