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.
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Download (HTTP): https://github.com/mltframework/mlt/releases/download/v7.20.0/mlt-7.20.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 8a5dac939d7251aa1f99eee3ce29b198
Download size: 1.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 28 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
frei0r-plugins-1.8.0 and (Qt-5.15.11 or qt-alternate-5.15.11)
Doxygen-1.9.8, fftw-3.3.10, libexif-0.6.24, SDL2-2.28.5, JACK, MOVEit, SoX, and vid.stab
Install MLT by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-Wno-dev .. &&
makeThis 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.
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