any good audio/video editing apps in macports?

Jan Stary hans at stare.cz
Sun Feb 24 14:43:26 PST 2013


On Feb 24 12:29:11, allbery.b at gmail.com wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Jim Graham <spooky130u at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > always been flaky (and useless even when it runs, as you need to install
> > > all the KDE dependencies with debug symbols for it to be able to do
> > > anything at all useful).
> >
> > I didn't install it---if it's there, macports installed it with
> > something.  So I'm assuming (yeah, I know) that it's installed the
> > way it needs to be.
> >
> 
> Nope.
> 
> This is somewhat confusing:  drconqi is installed as part of the KDE
> runtime, and various things will fail if it's not there --- but by default
> MacPorts builds KDE without debug information because C++ debug information
> is very large (often larger than the actual program due to template
> expansion), so the produced drconqi is not very useful.  You can blame the
> upstream KDE devs for requiring that a worse-than-useless drconqi be
> present for KDE applications to work at all.

This is just one example of the utter crap that KDE is.

The original question was what is a good video editor.
If kdenlive is KDE-based (which it is), avoid it;
like anything else that is KDE-based.



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