We are on the same track. :) I looked through other versions of mlt and discovered that some time ago a --force-qt3 configure option was added for the qimage module. I just now finished downloading the most current version of mlt, 0.7.8, and that configure option still exists. I presume then that qt3 remains supported.
Seems we could use the latest version, after we massage the sources for tqt. I think we need only to massage the qimage module and some admin files and not the entire package.
I saw a note in one of the change logs that mlt was fixed to work with sox 14, which also I am having no luck building against.
I had some luck with getting the configure process to recognize libquicktime. The version we are using is so old that the process was testing against a bin file that no longer exists in the libquicktime package. I confirmed that with the latest 0.7.8.
In all, I think we can convert to the latest version, but we'll need a script to convert to tqt as necessary. We probably can post the script to other wiki.
I'm curious, however. What packages do we support in Trinity that uses mlt? We do not support kdenlive.
Tim,
Do you recall what work went into the mlt package? Any tqt work? I don't see any of that being done. Probably compiles fine against Qt3 but won't compile against TQt3. We are using a very old version, 0.2.5. The latest version, 0.7.8, still supports Qt3. Only the qimage module needs TQt massaging, which I succesfuly performed today with the old version we are using.
I'm thinking we can update to the latest version. I just want to know whether there is anything special I need to know before trying that.
Thanks.
Darrell
Nothing special at all; if it can compile under TQt3 then it should be updated from the upstream sources.
At one time I was going to try to include kdenlive, but that proved to be far too difficult and was abandoned. The new (KDE4) kdenlive version stinks, but OpenShot is a good replacement.
Tim