kdenlive-19.12.0 and 19.12.1 too slow to be usable

[Tobias C. Berner]

Moin moin

Could you open an upstream bug-report at  https://bugs.kde.org/


mfg Tobias

On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 at 21:41, Simon Gerraty <sjg at crufty.net> wrote:
>
> FYI, I fecthed and installed:
>
> https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_3/All/kdenlive-18.12.3.txz
>
> which works much better.  I still get noise on tty - presumably from
> some of the libraries that kdenlive uses (there are all still from
> quarterly collection), but kdenlive works better, playhead tracks video
> ok and audio plays in sync.
>
> --sjg
>
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:19:30 -0800, Simon Gerraty writes:
> >Hi all.
> >
> >I cc'd ports, since kdenlive depends on lots of other packages.
> >
> >kdenlive-18.x was working fine on my
> >i9-7900X CPU @ 3.30GHz (10 core), with
> >NVIDIA GPU GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
> >
> >I recently ran pkg upgrade -f, and now with kdenlive-19.12.0
> >is it completely unusable.
> >
> >The display is sluggish (to put it kindly); the play head moves in big
> >jumps (stalls for several seconds at times), the video does not display
> >even close to smoothly, and the audio is out of sync.
> >
> >There is also a huge volume of debug info being spewed to tty, with what
> >looks like lots of errors.  Which I did not see with 18.x
> >
> >Since the release notes for kdenlive 19.12.1 mentioned disabling debug,
> >I tried downloading the kdenlive-19.12.1 from the latest pkg build, and
> >that installs and runs, but I still see lots of debug noise on tty
> >and the performance is still too bad to allow editing of anything.
> >
> >Just to confuse things further, a machine at work, which run pkg
> >upgrade -f at about the same time, kdenlive-19.12.0 works tollerably
> >despite the endless stream of debug output.
> >
> >That box has Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v3 @ 3.50GHz (8 core) with
> >NVIDIA GPU Quadro K4200 (GK104GL)
> >
> >Thoughts?
> >--sjg