I get the
feeling that part of the problem is we are
using a very old version of mlt (0.2.5)
that no
longer recognizes newer versions of the various
support
libraries. I don't know the last mlt version
to support Qt3 but I'm guessing at least the
end of the
0.4 series. I am trying to learn the latest
version we could use, but no such luck yet.
I dug up the old Gentoo package data for the 0.4-series
versions, and it suggests that 0.4.4 was
buildable against QT3 and KDE 3.5.10. 0.4.6 doesn't
have the same indications, but it entered
the tree only a couple of months before Gentoo dumped KDE3,
so it may never have been tested.
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.
Darrell