Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 7.8

Chapter 45. Multimedia Libraries and Drivers

MLT-0.9.6

Introduction to MLT

MLT package is the Media Lovin Toolkit. It is an open source multimedia framework, designed and developed for television broadcasting. It provides a toolkit for broadcasters, video editors, media players, transcoders, web streamers and many more types of applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

MLT Dependencies

Required

frei0r-27-01-15 and Qt-5.5.0

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10, libexif-0.6.21, SDL-1.2.15, JACK, LADSPA, MOVEit, SoX, and Swfdec

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mlt

Installation of MLT

Install MLT by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr            \
            --avformat-vdpau         \
            --enable-gpl             \
            --enable-gpl3            \
            --enable-opengl          \
            --disable-gtk2           \
            --qt-libdir=$QT5DIR/lib  \
            --qt-includedir=$QT5DIR/include &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Contents

Installed Program: melt
Installed Libraries: libmlt.so, libmlt++.so, and over twenty plugins
Installed Directories: /usr/include/mlt, /usr/include/mlt++, /usr/lib/mlt, and /usr/share/mlt

Short Descriptions

melt

is a test tool for MLT.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700