> > 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