[Kdenlive-devel] Current piave CVS compilation error.

[Rolf Dubitzky]

On Sunday 19 January 2003 03:23 pm, Jason Wood wrote:
> Essentially, I have no way to tell what command line I am sending to piave,
> and it is a bit of a black art to get things working at the moment.

Ohh!, the commandline, sure, I misunderstood you, sorry. I can add detailed 
information about that.

> For instance, if I send the commandline "-f rgb", piave doesn't like it,
> but it works if I send "-frgb". Sometimes I have to add spaces at the end
> of one argument, or put a space at the beginning of an argument before it
> will work.

I'll add some temporary debugging output. I will not change the cmndline 
parsing though, because this will change soon anyway. with the new plugin 
infrastructure, the piave binary will not know anything about 'rgb' or such. 
kdenlive will have to issue a request like
<createXWindow visual="xv" />
( or visual="rgb" )  piave will then try to find an outstream plugin which 
provides the requested functionality. No commandline arguments.

> The problem is - I have no way to tell if it is piave that is parsing it
> incorrectly, or if it is kdenlive that is sending the wrong commandline.

when calling piave on the commandline both works (as expected). I use the libc 
getopt functions which are working correctly. the problem is probably, that 
you send arguments like this:

"-frgb"        works
"-f" "rgb"     works
"-f rgb"       will not work.

Cheers,
Rolf

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