Kdenlive corruption and rendering crashes

[Eric Jiang]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 7:25 PM Evert Vorster <evorster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Honestly, it's been a long time since I have seen either error.
> Is it still affecting you today? The thing about the internet is that sometimes old posts show problems that have long been resolved.

For rendering crashes, bug #456689 is the latest and was reported on
22.04.2.[0] There are other bugs with a similar symptom, and seems to
be mainly a Windows problem.[1]

More generally, this feels like part of a bigger category of issues
where we have buggy dependencies without end-to-end testing to catch
them (e.g. otio, KF5 Purposes, ffmpeg). Ideally users should feel
confident in upgrading to a new Kdenlive version.

For timeline corruption, the most recent report I found was on Reddit,
regarding 22.04.3.[2] I personally am still using 21.12.3, but don't
remember if I experienced corruption with 21.12.x or 21.08.x. It may
only happen to a small % of saves, but it's a very destructive bug.

Personally, I think Kdenlive has a good set of features already, but
there are opportunities to greatly increase its stability. Open to
ideas and opinions!

Eric

[0] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456689
[1] https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=NEEDSINFO&bug_status=VERIFIED&columnlist=component%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_status%2Cresolution%2Cshort_desc%2Cchangeddate%2Cbug_severity%2Creporter%2Cop_sys%2Crep_platform&list_id=2115425&longdesc=mp4%20timestamp&longdesc_type=allwordssubstr&product=kdenlive&query_format=advanced
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/kdenlive/comments/vwsk82/error_when_opening_kdenlive_and_gone_project/