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[Joe Negron <538651@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok it's not a bug but a configuration issue.. So this is probably not
the best forum to ask...

So how about a little help, then. How do you begin to troubleshoot this?
how do you get to the Openshot preferences screen - if it never
launches. I'm using Debian Squeeze (32bit) -- the _wizard has no options
for anything except ubuntu. I have installed the dependency packages
every way I could think of.. including apt-get, aptitude, configuring
and make & install each package by themselves.  I cant get passed this
error.

"
No formats or codecs were found. Please check the OpenShot preferences and configure the 'melt' command name.

Segmentation fault.
"

I understand that it's not an openshot issue but i would have no need to
work out this challenge otherwise. I just want to edit video with your
award winning software. I have been searching for days, read every
readme, visited every forum and googled the crap out of this. I  know
I'm not the only one who can't find a way to resolve this very
frustrating situation.

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Title:
  Unclear instructions given to user

Status in OpenShot Video Editor:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Kubuntu 9.10 64-bit, installed Openshot 1.1.0 from the PPA

  Trying to start gives me this:

  rhk@rubert:~/Datat/photos$ openshot
   --------------------------------
     OpenShot (version 1.1.0)
  --------------------------------
  A new frmMain has been created
  No formats or codecs were found.  Please check the OpenShot preferences and configure the 'melt' command name.
  rhk@rubert:~/Datat/photos$

  
  So I headed to launchpad and saw this: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/482985

  So I removed all mlt packages:
  sudo apt-get purge libmlt++2 libmlt-data libmlt1 openshot openshot-doc
  and removed mlt files:

  rhk@rubert:/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages$ ls|grep mlt
  mlt.py
  mlt.pyc
  _mlt.so
  mlt_wrap.o
  rhk@rubert:/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages$ sudo rm mlt*
  [sudo] password for rhk: 
  rhk@rubert:/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages$ sudo rm _mlt.so 

  And then reinstalled openshot:

  rhk@rubert:/usr/local$ wajig install openshot
  Luetaan pakettiluetteloita... Valmis
  Muodostetaan riippuvuussuhteiden puu       
  Luetaan tilatiedot... Valmis        
  Seuraavat ylimääräiset paketit on merkitty asennettaviksi:
    libmlt++2 libmlt-data libmlt1 melt openshot-doc python-mlt
  Seuraavat UUDET paketit asennetaan:
    libmlt++2 libmlt-data libmlt1 melt openshot openshot-doc python-mlt
  0 päivitetty, 7 uutta asennusta, 0 poistettavaa ja 8 päivittämätöntä.
  Noudettavaa arkistoa 190kt/18,8Mt.

  and tried to run openshot:

  rhk@rubert:/usr/local$ openshot
  --------------------------------
     OpenShot (version 1.1.0)
  --------------------------------
  *** ERROR: MLT Python bindings failed to import ***
  *** ERROR: MLT Python bindings failed to import ***
  -------------------------------------------------------
  Error:  OpenShot has not been installed in the Python path.
  (Both the site-packages and /usr/share/openshot folders were checked)

  Use the following command to install OpenShot:
    $ sudo python setup.py install

  Exception in thread Thread-1:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 525, in __bootstrap_inner
      self.run()
    File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/openshot/classes/thumbnail.py", line 170, in run
      mlt.Factory().init()
  NameError: global name 'mlt' is not defined

  rhk@rubert:/usr/local$

  Fine. So I run
  sudo python setup.py install

  just to get:
  python: can't open file 'setup.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  rhk@rubert:/usr/local$ 

  
  So I guess the bug here is that the command it recommends me to run does nothing - I guess it should point to a dir to actually do something useful..

  (To figure out why Openshot's not starting, I'll go to
  https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/482985 :)

  
  Thanks!