Kdenlive can only render in a few formats

[mastablasta]

I can not get kdenlive to render in for exmaple mpeg4 format. It says it is missing a library but i do not see what is missing. i even installed a -dev library. (see attached picture). What do i need to render videos in other formats?


oh and by the way rekonq seems to really have a GARBAGE with this edition. it can't handle the forum picture attachments and consistently crashes when i click done. and that's not the only issue i encountered. i posted this eventually using chromium. I wouldn't add it in default progs selection.

EDIT: Larger screenshot: http://ubuntuone.com/4Sqy5fuUdea3boMZ9TPzBd

[Frank616]

Do you have the kubuntu-restricted-extras package installed? If not, install it and try again. I can encode into many formats with KDEnlive.

Frank.

[mastablasta]

i believe i install restricted extras package, not Kubuntu restricted extras. will try Kubuntu-restricted extras and see if there is any difference. otherwise playing formats, flash. etc work fine

[weha]

I have always used sunab's svn ppa: https://launchpad.net/~sunab/+archive/kdenlive-svn
Plus the medibuntu repo. for the libavcodecs ..
Everything is working well.

[Frank616]

weha and mastablasta:

I have always used sunab's svn ppa: https://launchpad.net/~sunab/+archive/kdenlive-svn
Plus the medibuntu repo.

Yes, I think that is the key. I see that I have that ppa enabled as well. I had forgotten about it....

Frank.

[claydoh]

You still may need to install other libraries and tools, the warnings will tell you where to start. Installing -dev packages is for compiling and development.

Search Muon for libavcodec53, libmp3lame, h264enc and possibly libx264-120. That should pull in what you need.

[claydoh]

Also, you will have to re-run the setup wizard. If that does not show mp4, mp3, h264 in the codecs/formats section there you will have to close kdenlive, delete your kdenlive config file /home/<your-username>/.kde/chare/config/kdenliverc, and run the program again, forcing the wizard to be fun fresh.

[mastablasta]

been dealing with other more important issues. anyway tried all of the above. installed everything as mentioned. reconfigured kdenlive as mentioned but i still get the same message about unsuported codec. i did get more options, but most of them have a message about unsuported library or codec.

[Frank616]

mastablasta:

I started another thread here with regard to KDEnlive. The membership here gave me some good links for other sources of information. I've been too busy of late to follow up on those links, but will have time off in December when I hope to follow though. You may find the links worthwhile in the meantime.

Frank.

[mastablasta]

i've already checked a few tutorial, however i still do not understand why it suggest to use certain codec and at the same time it say i do not have it installed. and it only suggest those codecs that are installed... hmm. perhaps i should use Kdenlive forums. just though anyone else had similar experience.

[vinnywright]

do have FFMPEG installed kdenlive uses it to do it's transcoding ?

VINNY

[mastablasta]

The following ffmpeg stuff is installed (see attached pic) or here: http://ubuntuone.com/2VQfvqngtq778qwgWiITER


i am not sure if any extra things need to be installed here.

at the moment it certainly looks like kdenlive is broken.