Windows port progress, etc

[Harald Albrecht]

Wow! What a Christmas present!

I've thrown one of my daytime projects at the Windows port and it kept 
its head well above the water line, no crashes so far. Playback is slow, 
but then this is on my Surface Pro 3 with a i5, but that runs much 
slower than my Linux i5 video machine.

The first issue I see is when loading the existing project: Kdenlive 
warns that the project was created in the en_US.UTF-8 locale and that 
this isn't installed on my Win8.1 system. I've set my Win to German; but 
this looks like some Kdenlive/KF5 on Win issue instead?

Afterwards, Kdenlive complains that the effects volume:fadein and 
volume:fadeout were not found, so it removed them from the project. 
Well, that's one of the most basic ones, but for a first start... ;)

After the project has been loaded, the project bin shows no preview 
images. The clip monitor works correctly though, showing the clips 
correctly. When I manually reload clips in the project bin, the preview 
image gets correctly generated.

Some image clips don't play back in the timeline unless I manually 
reload them in the project bin. Up to then, they result in a white(!) 
image. These are typically PNG clips.

So this really looks incredibly promising!!!

A big thank-you to all three of you: Josh, Vincent, and Jean-Baptiste! 
(in no particular order, heh!)

Happy and peaceful days to you all,
Harald


Am 27.12.2016 um 23:44 schrieb Jean-Baptiste Mardelle:
> Hi all,
>
> First, thanks to Farid and Massimo for their kind words, I hope we can 
> continue working and create a even greater community around Kdenlive 
> in 2017.
>
> The timeline refactoring will be a lot of work and I am going to start 
> planning it soon and call a developper meeting to discuss about it.
>
> In the last days, I had a look at Vincent's lastest progress on the 
> Windows port, and I am glad to announce that with a few tweaks, I am 
> now able to create a basically working Kdenlive version on Windows. 
> There are probably many bugs but you can already put a clip in the 
> Project Bin, add it to timeline with effets, play it, save the project 
> and render!
>
> So a huge thanks to Vincent and Josh who spent many hours working on 
> this.
>
> For those who would love to test this alpha version, you can download 
> it from here (for 7 days):
>
> https://we.tl/C66tYLhp7D
> SHA256: 8725cdde9bf4075b2a19dc95c0be9d602019c6f801d0e08a543ff20318765d58
>
> This is a zip file, unzip it somewhere, it will create a 
> kdenlive-windows folder which contains the kdenlive.exe, just double 
> click to run. The first time, you need to open, close and re-open 
> kdenlive to make video clips work.
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Jean-Baptiste Mardelle