>> 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