[Kdenlive-devel] New titler module

[Michael Shigorin]

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:32:18PM +0200, jb wrote:
> > Can you elaborate on this? What is the reason for needing Xorg running?
> The new MLT titler module uses a QGraphicsScene to place the
> different objects and then render to an image. This requires
> the creation of a QApplication instance.  If you start that
> from a terminal login, some parts of the QApplication will not
> be initialized. Some of that stuff is required by the
> QGraphicsTextItem (for example it queries some infos about your
> screen depth, and some other display dependant stuff), which
> leads to a crash.

Ah, so looks like Qt bug -- bit depth etc should be available
remotely too.  DRI won't be (by definition) but that's another
story, and a colleague still used to test quake3 on a terminal.
:)

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