The 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 12.2 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/mltframework/mlt/releases/download/v7.26.0/mlt-7.26.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 14b822bc386db5c0fd2c9e5116c04d73
Download size: 1.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 29 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
frei0r-plugins-1.8.0 and Qt-6.7.2
Doxygen-1.12.0, fftw-3.3.10, libexif-0.6.24, SDL2-2.30.6, qt5-components-5.15.14, JACK, MOVEit, SoX, and vid.stab
Install mlt by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
-D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-D MOD_QT=OFF \
-D MOD_QT6=ON \
-W no-dev .. &&
make
This package does not come with a test suite. However a test .mp4 file can be played in a local graphical environment with ./out/bin/melt <filename>.mp4.
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
This application uses advanced graphical capabilities. In some cases, firmware for your specific graphics adaptor may be needed. See the section called “Firmware for Video Cards” for more information.
Now, as the root user:
make install