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{{Remember|2=This page is outdated|1=Kdenlive uses KF5/Qt5 by default now. Please follow the instructions at [[Kdenlive/Development]] instead}} | |||
== Working with Kdenlive on KF5 == | == Working with Kdenlive on KF5 == | ||
'''If you want to test the KF5 (KDE Frameworks 5, based on Qt5) version of Kdenlive, you need a distribution that provides a running KF5 environnment, like Kubuntu | '''If you want to test the KF5 (KDE Frameworks 5, based on Qt5) version of Kdenlive, you need a distribution that provides a running KF5 environnment, like Kubuntu artful (17.10) preview releases.'''<br> | ||
Some outdated infos about the KF5 refactoring process can be found on [[Kdenlive/Development/KF5/Refactoring|Refactoring page]] | |||
=== Compiling MLT with Qt5 support === | === Compiling MLT with Qt5 support === | ||
The first step is to | The first step is to compile MLT with Qt5 support. This is only required if you don't have a recent distribution or want to try recent features/fixes introduced in MLT. Otherwise you can skip and go directly to the next chapter - compiling Kdenlive. | ||
To prevent conflicts, it is recommended to remove your distribution packages (melt, libmlt, libmlt++). | |||
* First install the dependencies: | |||
On ubuntu: | |||
sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config \ | sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config \ | ||
libavformat-dev libavdevice-dev frei0r-plugins-dev libgtk2.0-dev libexif-dev \ | libavformat-dev libavdevice-dev frei0r-plugins-dev frei0r-plugins libgtk2.0-dev libexif-dev \ | ||
libsdl2-dev libsox-dev libxml2-dev \ | |||
ladspa-sdk libcairo2-dev libswscale-dev qtscript5-dev libqt5svg5-dev \ | ladspa-sdk libcairo2-dev libswscale-dev qtscript5-dev libqt5svg5-dev \ | ||
libqt5opengl5-dev libepoxy-dev libeigen3-dev libfftw3-dev | libqt5opengl5-dev libepoxy-dev libeigen3-dev libfftw3-dev \ | ||
git yasm libtool automake autoconf libtool-bin libtheora-bin libtheora-dev \ | |||
intltool swig libmp3lame-dev libgavl-dev libsamplerate0-dev libjack-dev libsoup2.4-dev \ | |||
python-dev libkf5crash-dev libkf5filemetadata-dev | |||
(optional packages: libmovit-dev) | |||
On OpenSuse 13.2, for MLT+Kdenlive (not very used to that system, please correct me): | On OpenSuse 13.2, for MLT+Kdenlive (not very used to that system, please correct me): | ||
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libQt5Test-devel kparts-devel knotifications-devel | libQt5Test-devel kparts-devel knotifications-devel | ||
If you want to use MLT's Motion Tracker filter, you need to install OpenCV >= 3.1 with its contrib module. | |||
This can be done with the following commands: | |||
git clone https://github.com/opencv/opencv.git | |||
git clone https://github.com/opencv/opencv_contrib.git | |||
cd opencv | |||
mkdir build | |||
cd build | |||
cmake .. -DOPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=../../opencv_contrib/modules | |||
make -j5 | |||
sudo make install | |||
* Then get the source code for MLT: | |||
git clone https://github.com/mltframework/mlt.git | |||
or download the latest release from https://github.com/mltframework/mlt/releases/latest. | |||
./configure --enable-gpl --enable-gpl3 | * Configure and build | ||
By default, MLT will be installed in /usr/local. If you want to install to a non-standard local path, you can set it by adding "--prefix=/path/to/your/install" | |||
cd mlt | |||
export CXXFLAGS=-std=c++11 | |||
./configure --enable-gpl --enable-gpl3 | |||
make | |||
sudo make install | |||
* Check that your compiled melt works: | |||
melt color:red | |||
Should play open a preview window with a red color clip | |||
melt myclip.mp4 | |||
Should play your test file in a video window. | |||
Check that your compiled melt works: | |||
melt myclip.mp4 | |||
=== Get the Qt5/KF5 branch of Kdenlive === | === Get the Qt5/KF5 branch of Kdenlive === | ||
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<pre> | <pre> | ||
cd ~kdenlive | cd ~/kdenlive | ||
mkdir kdenlive_git | mkdir kdenlive_git | ||
cd kdenlive_git | cd kdenlive_git | ||
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</pre> | </pre> | ||
The | The development branch is currently in 'refactoring_timeline'. So to get the latest code: | ||
<pre> | |||
cd kdenlive | |||
git checkout -b refactoring_timeline origin/refactoring_timeline | |||
</pre> | |||
Create a build directory inside the kdenlive directory that git created: | Create a build directory inside the kdenlive directory that git created: | ||
<code>mkdir build;cd build</code> | |||
(working dir now ~/kdenlive/kdenlive_git/kdenlive/build in our eg ) | |||
( | === Compile Kdenlive === | ||
(These instructions do not include a build of the vidstab package and thus your built kdenlive will be missing the stabilization feature) | |||
You will need to install several Qt/KDE devel packages to successfully compile. | |||
On Ubuntu the following packages might pull all the necessary dependencies: | |||
sudo apt-get install \ | |||
libkf5archive-dev libkf5bookmarks-dev libkf5coreaddons-dev libkf5config-dev \ | |||
libkf5configwidgets-dev libkf5dbusaddons-dev libkf5kio-dev libkf5widgetsaddons-dev \ | |||
libkf5notifyconfig-dev libkf5newstuff-dev libkf5xmlgui-dev libkf5declarative-dev \ | |||
libkf5notifications-dev libkf5guiaddons-dev libkf5textwidgets-dev libkf5iconthemes-dev \ | |||
kdoctools-dev libkf5crash-dev libkf5filemetadata-dev extra-cmake-modules \ | |||
libsm-dev cmake qtdeclarative5-dev kde-runtime kinit kio \ | |||
qml-module-qtquick-controls | |||
The main problem with completing the build is often ensuring you have all the required dependencies. | |||
A trick for ensuring you do have them built - since the list changes all the time is as follows: | |||
In your package manager (eg synaptic) turn on sources from deb-src main restricted, universe and multiverse for both the bionic and bionic-updates (in synaptic Settings > Repositories) and then execute this command. | |||
sudo apt-get build-dep kdenlive | |||
To avoid problems with plugins and libraries, it is easier to install Kdenlive in /usr: | |||
cmake .. -DKDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr | |||
However if you prefer to install to a custom prefix (recommended only if you know what you are doing) : | |||
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INSTALL_PREFIX/lib | |||
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$INSTALL_PREFIX/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS:/usr/share | |||
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$INSTALL_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$INSTALL_PREFIX | |||
Then build and install: | |||
make -j5 | |||
sudo make install | |||
===Execute the Built Kdenlive === | |||
Test the built kdenlive by executing the kdenlive binary in the bin folder in your install path (again making use of the INSTALL_PREFIX shell variable we defined during the melt build) | |||
<code> | <code> | ||
$INSTALL_PREFIX/bin/kdenlive | |||
</code> | </code> | ||
The above command should start kdenlive. However, It is important to have especially the environment variable <code>XDG_DATA_DIRS</code> correctly set to point to the share dir inside the Kdenlive installation directories. The given standard paths for <code>XDG_DATA_DIRS</code> are typically /usr/share as well as /usr/local/share. So if you install Kdenlive to some other place, such as within your own home directory, make sure to add the path to your home-based share dir to <code>XDG_DATA_DIRS</code> before attempting to start Kdenlive. Failing to do so causes Kdenlive to crash in unexpected situations, such as when trying to select a transition in the timeline. | |||
< | |||
< | |||
Here's a nifty little script that sets up the environment variables automatically, then fires up Kdenlive; place this script next to your kdenlive executable (ie in $INSTALL_PREFIX/bin/). And don't forget to make it executable (chmod u+x kdenlive.sh). | |||
#!/bin/bash | |||
SCRIPT_NAME=$(readlink -f "$0") | |||
SCRIPT_PATH=$(dirname "$SCRIPT_NAME") | |||
export INSTALL_PREFIX=$(dirname "$SCRIPT_PATH") | |||
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INSTALL_PREFIX/lib | |||
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$INSTALL_PREFIX/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS:/usr/share | |||
export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$INSTALL_PREFIX/etc/xdg:$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS | |||
- | echo "Environment set up for $INSTALL_PREFIX" | ||
$INSTALL_PREFIX/bin/kdenlive | |||
If you want to be sure that you are executing the kdenlive you just built you might want to increase the version number of the build. This can be done by editing src/kdenlive/CMakeLists.txt | |||
=== Older Linux Distributions === | === Older Linux Distributions === | ||
A light virtualization option is using chroot, setting it up in a ubuntu/debian environment is as simple as: | A light virtualization option is using chroot, setting it up in a ubuntu/debian environment is as simple as: | ||
sudo -s | sudo -s | ||
apt-get install schroot | apt-get install schroot debootstrap | ||
debootstrap --arch amd64 | debootstrap --arch amd64 artful $CHROOTDIR http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ | ||
cat << === >> /etc/schroot/chroot.d/ | cat << === >> /etc/schroot/chroot.d/artful.conf | ||
[ | [artful] | ||
aliases=default | aliases=default | ||
description= | description=artful | ||
type=directory | type=directory | ||
profile=desktop | profile=desktop | ||
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users=$USER | users=$USER | ||
=== | === | ||
schroot -c -p | schroot -c artful -p | ||
after running the above you will get a prompt like | |||
(artful)root@pcname: | |||
You can then follow the install instructions above for melt and kdenlive. Note that many of the required packages are in the "Universe" repository - which is not enabled by default on the chroot setup. So you will need to add that repository to the package manager (edit your chroots /etc/apt/sources.list ) in order to be able to find the required packages. Don't forget the ''apt-get update'' afterwards. | |||
If, when you test melt, it complains | |||
./melt: error while loading shared libraries: libmlt.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory | |||
Then try setting shell variables LD_LIBRARY_PATH and XDG_DATA_DIRS | |||
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INSTALL_PREFIX/lib | |||
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$INSTALL_PREFIX/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS:/usr/share | |||
== Installing a recent git version of FFmpeg for Kdenlive (optional) == | == Installing a recent git version of FFmpeg for Kdenlive (optional) == | ||
The LibAV/FFmpeg libraries that do all the encoding/decoding stuff are evolving quickly, but distributions do not always provide a recent version of these libraries. If you want to benefit from the latest features / fixes from these libraries, here is a quick howto on installing a recent FFmpeg version for MLT/Kdenlive without touching your system's LibAV/FFmpeg official version. This howto provides details for FFmpeg, but can probably be easily adapted for LibAV if you have a preference. | The LibAV/FFmpeg libraries that do all the encoding/decoding stuff are evolving quickly, but distributions do not always provide a recent version of these libraries. If you want to benefit from the latest features / fixes from these libraries, here is a quick howto on installing a recent FFmpeg version for MLT/Kdenlive without touching your system's LibAV/FFmpeg official version. This howto provides details for FFmpeg, but can probably be easily adapted for LibAV if you have a preference. | ||
* Get required libraries: | |||
sudo apt-get install libfaac-dev libgsm1-dev libmp3lame-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev | |||
libschroedinger-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libvpx-dev libx264-dev libx265-dev libxvidcore-dev libdc1394-22-dev yasm | |||
* Get the latest FFmpeg sources: | * Get the latest FFmpeg sources: | ||
git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg | git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg | ||
* | * configure the FFmpeg build with the "'''suffix'''" option. It means all FFmpeg programs/libraries will be renamed to use that suffix so that they do not mess up your system's official versions (in my exemple, the suffix is <em>mlt</em>, so ffplay will be called ffplaymlt). Choose the install prefix of your choice, but do not install in /usr. Here is a sample configure: | ||
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --progs-suffix=mlt --build-suffix=mlt --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame \ | ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --progs-suffix=mlt --build-suffix=mlt --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame \ | ||
--enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libxvid \ | --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libxvid \ | ||
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--enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-version3 --enable-libvpx | --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-version3 --enable-libvpx | ||
* compile the ffmpeg build | |||
<code> | |||
make -j4 | |||
</code> | |||
<ref>The -j4 parameter - this controls the number of parallel compilation jobs. -j4 is fine for a Core i3/i5, while it bores a Core i7 to death. On a Core i7 thus better use -j8 as it speeds up compilation a lot and makes use of all available real cores...</ref> | |||
* Install the build ffmpeg | |||
<code>make install | |||
</code> | |||
* Next, recompile MLT to use this special FFmpeg version. Just add these 2 parameters to the MLT configure, where avformat-shared points to the install prefix of your custom FFmpeg, and avformat-suffix is the suffix used in previous step: | * Next, recompile MLT to use this special FFmpeg version. Just add these 2 parameters to the MLT configure, where avformat-shared points to the install prefix of your custom FFmpeg, and avformat-suffix is the suffix used in previous step: | ||
--avformat-shared=/usr/local --avformat-suffix=mlt | --avformat-shared=/usr/local --avformat-suffix=mlt | ||
* Recompile Kdenlive. | |||
* After running the newly compiled Kdenlive ensure that, in the settings dialog under environment, the FFmpeg and FFplay paths point to your newly compiled versions (in my example it will be /usr/local/ffmpegmlt and /usr/local/ffplaymlt) | |||
==A build script== | |||
[[File:build-kdenlive_v26b.sh.zip]] | |||
This is a script to build kdenlive and dependencies in a sandbox. Downloads sources from repositories and does the build. | |||
Based on Dan Dennedy version 26 of the build-kdenlive.sh script | |||
http://www.mltframework.org/twiki/bin/view/MLT/BuildScripts#Kdenlive | |||
http://github.com/mltframework/mlt-scripts/raw/master/build/build-kdenlive.sh | |||
This version differs from the Dan Dennedy script in that it builds the KF5 version of the application | |||
Works with ver 15.NN and higher versions of kdenlive<ref> If you want to build a specific version of kdenlive then you can edit the build script to set KDENLIVE_HEAD=0 (instead of 1) and supply the version in the KDENLIVE_REVISION var. eg | |||
<br>KDENLIVE_REVISION=remotes/origin/Applications/15.08 | |||
<br>To see what remote branches you could specify for kdenlive | |||
<br> cd $INSTALL_DIR/src/kdenlive | |||
<br>git branch -r | |||
<br>choose a branch from the list and prefix its name with remotes/ when you include it as the KDENLIVE_REVISION option | |||
</ref> | |||
* Create a folder where you would like kdenlive installed. Eg ~/development/kdenlive | |||
* Extract the build-kdenlive_v26b.sh to a folder anywhere. | |||
* Make build-kdenlive_v26b.sh executable | |||
* Edit build-kdenlive_v26b.sh and set the INSTALL_DIR var | |||
eg INSTALL_DIR="$HOME/development/kdenlive" | |||
Look in the comments at the start to see the list of dependencies you should install before hand. | |||
Install them using the sudo apt-get install ... commands shown. | |||
in a terminal execute ./build-kdenlive_v26b.sh | |||
When the job finishes cd to the INSTALL_DIR choosen above and then into the folder named for today's date <ref>You can turn off the feature of the script that builds to a folder named for today's date by setting AUTO_APPEND_DATE=0 in the script</ref> | |||
eg | |||
cd /home/ttguy/development/kdenlive/20151007/ | |||
execute this to start the application | |||
./start-kdenlive | |||
==Footnotes== | |||
<references /> |
Latest revision as of 14:30, 11 March 2021
This page is outdated |
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Kdenlive uses KF5/Qt5 by default now. Please follow the instructions at Kdenlive/Development instead |
Working with Kdenlive on KF5
If you want to test the KF5 (KDE Frameworks 5, based on Qt5) version of Kdenlive, you need a distribution that provides a running KF5 environnment, like Kubuntu artful (17.10) preview releases.
Some outdated infos about the KF5 refactoring process can be found on Refactoring page
Compiling MLT with Qt5 support
The first step is to compile MLT with Qt5 support. This is only required if you don't have a recent distribution or want to try recent features/fixes introduced in MLT. Otherwise you can skip and go directly to the next chapter - compiling Kdenlive.
To prevent conflicts, it is recommended to remove your distribution packages (melt, libmlt, libmlt++).
- First install the dependencies:
On ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config \ libavformat-dev libavdevice-dev frei0r-plugins-dev frei0r-plugins libgtk2.0-dev libexif-dev \ libsdl2-dev libsox-dev libxml2-dev \ ladspa-sdk libcairo2-dev libswscale-dev qtscript5-dev libqt5svg5-dev \ libqt5opengl5-dev libepoxy-dev libeigen3-dev libfftw3-dev \ git yasm libtool automake autoconf libtool-bin libtheora-bin libtheora-dev \ intltool swig libmp3lame-dev libgavl-dev libsamplerate0-dev libjack-dev libsoup2.4-dev \ python-dev libkf5crash-dev libkf5filemetadata-dev
(optional packages: libmovit-dev)
On OpenSuse 13.2, for MLT+Kdenlive (not very used to that system, please correct me):
zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt5/openSUSE_13.2 Qt5 zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/ oss zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/ oss-src zypper refresh zypper si kdenlive libmlt zypper install libqt5-qtscript-devel libqt5-qtsvg-devel \ libQt5OpenGL-devel libQt5Concurrent-devel kplotting-devel \ libQt5Test-devel kparts-devel knotifications-devel
If you want to use MLT's Motion Tracker filter, you need to install OpenCV >= 3.1 with its contrib module. This can be done with the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/opencv/opencv.git git clone https://github.com/opencv/opencv_contrib.git cd opencv mkdir build cd build cmake .. -DOPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=../../opencv_contrib/modules make -j5 sudo make install
- Then get the source code for MLT:
git clone https://github.com/mltframework/mlt.git
or download the latest release from https://github.com/mltframework/mlt/releases/latest.
- Configure and build
By default, MLT will be installed in /usr/local. If you want to install to a non-standard local path, you can set it by adding "--prefix=/path/to/your/install"
cd mlt export CXXFLAGS=-std=c++11 ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-gpl3 make sudo make install
- Check that your compiled melt works:
melt color:red
Should play open a preview window with a red color clip
melt myclip.mp4
Should play your test file in a video window.
Get the Qt5/KF5 branch of Kdenlive
We are cloning the git repository for kdenlive into a local folder on your hard drive. This step will create a new kdenlive folder in the current directory. In this example I cloned into ~/kdenlive/kdenlive_git. Which creates ~/kdenlive/kdenlive_git/kdenlive
cd ~/kdenlive mkdir kdenlive_git cd kdenlive_git git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kdenlive.git
Success looks like:
Cloning into 'kdenlive'... remote: Counting objects: 67026, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (12978/12978), done. remote: Total 67026 (delta 54842), reused 65893 (delta 53935) Receiving objects: 100% (67026/67026), 22.35 MiB | 582.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (54842/54842), done. Checking connectivity... done.
The development branch is currently in 'refactoring_timeline'. So to get the latest code:
cd kdenlive git checkout -b refactoring_timeline origin/refactoring_timeline
Create a build directory inside the kdenlive directory that git created:
mkdir build;cd build
(working dir now ~/kdenlive/kdenlive_git/kdenlive/build in our eg )
Compile Kdenlive
(These instructions do not include a build of the vidstab package and thus your built kdenlive will be missing the stabilization feature)
You will need to install several Qt/KDE devel packages to successfully compile.
On Ubuntu the following packages might pull all the necessary dependencies:
sudo apt-get install \ libkf5archive-dev libkf5bookmarks-dev libkf5coreaddons-dev libkf5config-dev \ libkf5configwidgets-dev libkf5dbusaddons-dev libkf5kio-dev libkf5widgetsaddons-dev \ libkf5notifyconfig-dev libkf5newstuff-dev libkf5xmlgui-dev libkf5declarative-dev \ libkf5notifications-dev libkf5guiaddons-dev libkf5textwidgets-dev libkf5iconthemes-dev \ kdoctools-dev libkf5crash-dev libkf5filemetadata-dev extra-cmake-modules \ libsm-dev cmake qtdeclarative5-dev kde-runtime kinit kio \ qml-module-qtquick-controls
The main problem with completing the build is often ensuring you have all the required dependencies. A trick for ensuring you do have them built - since the list changes all the time is as follows: In your package manager (eg synaptic) turn on sources from deb-src main restricted, universe and multiverse for both the bionic and bionic-updates (in synaptic Settings > Repositories) and then execute this command.
sudo apt-get build-dep kdenlive
To avoid problems with plugins and libraries, it is easier to install Kdenlive in /usr:
cmake .. -DKDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
However if you prefer to install to a custom prefix (recommended only if you know what you are doing) :
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INSTALL_PREFIX/lib export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$INSTALL_PREFIX/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS:/usr/share PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$INSTALL_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$INSTALL_PREFIX
Then build and install:
make -j5 sudo make install
Execute the Built Kdenlive
Test the built kdenlive by executing the kdenlive binary in the bin folder in your install path (again making use of the INSTALL_PREFIX shell variable we defined during the melt build)
$INSTALL_PREFIX/bin/kdenlive
The above command should start kdenlive. However, It is important to have especially the environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS
correctly set to point to the share dir inside the Kdenlive installation directories. The given standard paths for XDG_DATA_DIRS
are typically /usr/share as well as /usr/local/share. So if you install Kdenlive to some other place, such as within your own home directory, make sure to add the path to your home-based share dir to XDG_DATA_DIRS
before attempting to start Kdenlive. Failing to do so causes Kdenlive to crash in unexpected situations, such as when trying to select a transition in the timeline.
Here's a nifty little script that sets up the environment variables automatically, then fires up Kdenlive; place this script next to your kdenlive executable (ie in $INSTALL_PREFIX/bin/). And don't forget to make it executable (chmod u+x kdenlive.sh).
#!/bin/bash SCRIPT_NAME=$(readlink -f "$0") SCRIPT_PATH=$(dirname "$SCRIPT_NAME") export INSTALL_PREFIX=$(dirname "$SCRIPT_PATH") export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INSTALL_PREFIX/lib export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$INSTALL_PREFIX/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS:/usr/share export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$INSTALL_PREFIX/etc/xdg:$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS echo "Environment set up for $INSTALL_PREFIX" $INSTALL_PREFIX/bin/kdenlive
If you want to be sure that you are executing the kdenlive you just built you might want to increase the version number of the build. This can be done by editing src/kdenlive/CMakeLists.txt
Older Linux Distributions
A light virtualization option is using chroot, setting it up in a ubuntu/debian environment is as simple as:
sudo -s apt-get install schroot debootstrap debootstrap --arch amd64 artful $CHROOTDIR http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ cat << === >> /etc/schroot/chroot.d/artful.conf [artful] aliases=default description=artful type=directory profile=desktop directory=$CHROOTDIR users=$USER === schroot -c artful -p
after running the above you will get a prompt like
(artful)root@pcname:
You can then follow the install instructions above for melt and kdenlive. Note that many of the required packages are in the "Universe" repository - which is not enabled by default on the chroot setup. So you will need to add that repository to the package manager (edit your chroots /etc/apt/sources.list ) in order to be able to find the required packages. Don't forget the apt-get update afterwards.
If, when you test melt, it complains
./melt: error while loading shared libraries: libmlt.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Then try setting shell variables LD_LIBRARY_PATH and XDG_DATA_DIRS
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INSTALL_PREFIX/lib export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$INSTALL_PREFIX/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS:/usr/share
Installing a recent git version of FFmpeg for Kdenlive (optional)
The LibAV/FFmpeg libraries that do all the encoding/decoding stuff are evolving quickly, but distributions do not always provide a recent version of these libraries. If you want to benefit from the latest features / fixes from these libraries, here is a quick howto on installing a recent FFmpeg version for MLT/Kdenlive without touching your system's LibAV/FFmpeg official version. This howto provides details for FFmpeg, but can probably be easily adapted for LibAV if you have a preference.
- Get required libraries:
sudo apt-get install libfaac-dev libgsm1-dev libmp3lame-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libschroedinger-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libvpx-dev libx264-dev libx265-dev libxvidcore-dev libdc1394-22-dev yasm
- Get the latest FFmpeg sources:
git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg
- configure the FFmpeg build with the "suffix" option. It means all FFmpeg programs/libraries will be renamed to use that suffix so that they do not mess up your system's official versions (in my exemple, the suffix is mlt, so ffplay will be called ffplaymlt). Choose the install prefix of your choice, but do not install in /usr. Here is a sample configure:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --progs-suffix=mlt --build-suffix=mlt --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame \ --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libxvid \ --enable-x11grab --enable-libgsm --enable-libx264 --enable-libtheora --enable-libdc1394 --enable-nonfree \ --disable-stripping --enable-avfilter --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libopencore-amrnb \ --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-version3 --enable-libvpx
- compile the ffmpeg build
make -j4
[1]
- Install the build ffmpeg
make install
- Next, recompile MLT to use this special FFmpeg version. Just add these 2 parameters to the MLT configure, where avformat-shared points to the install prefix of your custom FFmpeg, and avformat-suffix is the suffix used in previous step:
--avformat-shared=/usr/local --avformat-suffix=mlt
- Recompile Kdenlive.
- After running the newly compiled Kdenlive ensure that, in the settings dialog under environment, the FFmpeg and FFplay paths point to your newly compiled versions (in my example it will be /usr/local/ffmpegmlt and /usr/local/ffplaymlt)
A build script
File:Build-kdenlive v26b.sh.zip
This is a script to build kdenlive and dependencies in a sandbox. Downloads sources from repositories and does the build. Based on Dan Dennedy version 26 of the build-kdenlive.sh script
http://www.mltframework.org/twiki/bin/view/MLT/BuildScripts#Kdenlive http://github.com/mltframework/mlt-scripts/raw/master/build/build-kdenlive.sh This version differs from the Dan Dennedy script in that it builds the KF5 version of the application Works with ver 15.NN and higher versions of kdenlive[2]
- Create a folder where you would like kdenlive installed. Eg ~/development/kdenlive
- Extract the build-kdenlive_v26b.sh to a folder anywhere.
- Make build-kdenlive_v26b.sh executable
- Edit build-kdenlive_v26b.sh and set the INSTALL_DIR var
eg INSTALL_DIR="$HOME/development/kdenlive"
Look in the comments at the start to see the list of dependencies you should install before hand. Install them using the sudo apt-get install ... commands shown.
in a terminal execute ./build-kdenlive_v26b.sh
When the job finishes cd to the INSTALL_DIR choosen above and then into the folder named for today's date [3]
eg
cd /home/ttguy/development/kdenlive/20151007/
execute this to start the application
./start-kdenlive
Footnotes
- ↑ The -j4 parameter - this controls the number of parallel compilation jobs. -j4 is fine for a Core i3/i5, while it bores a Core i7 to death. On a Core i7 thus better use -j8 as it speeds up compilation a lot and makes use of all available real cores...
- ↑ If you want to build a specific version of kdenlive then you can edit the build script to set KDENLIVE_HEAD=0 (instead of 1) and supply the version in the KDENLIVE_REVISION var. eg
KDENLIVE_REVISION=remotes/origin/Applications/15.08
To see what remote branches you could specify for kdenlive
cd $INSTALL_DIR/src/kdenlive
git branch -r
choose a branch from the list and prefix its name with remotes/ when you include it as the KDENLIVE_REVISION option - ↑ You can turn off the feature of the script that builds to a folder named for today's date by setting AUTO_APPEND_DATE=0 in the script