Bug 358838

Summary: kdenlive project file has HTML tags and bad headers
Product: [Applications] kdenlive Reporter: KovacsA <pbkais32>
Component: User Interface & MiscellaneousAssignee: Jean-Baptiste Mardelle <jb>
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO    
Severity: major CC: wegwerf-1-2-3
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description KovacsA 2016-01-31 20:29:39 UTC 
Sometimes the project file begins to have &lt; tags instead of "<" sign. Also there is "<?xml version="1.0"?>" in the middle of the project. The main bin playlist also has some weird customeffects parameters.
This often corrupts the file and makes the project reopening impossible
And this often breaks the timeline objects like clips and transitions

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Deepen in some video editing project
2. Eventually you will see html tags in the project file
3.

Actual Results:  
 <playlist kdenlive:customeffects="&lt;customeffects/>&#xa;" id="main bin">
  <property name="kdenlive:customeffects">&lt;?xml version="1.0"?>
&lt;customeffects/>

Expected Results:  
Correctly edited xml file
Comment 1 Wegwerf 2016-08-04 17:02:30 UTC 
KovacsA, can you please try using the recent stable 16.04.2 or current beta with a recent MLT 6.2.0+ at least if this bug is still present? Please be so kind as to report back your results. If the problem is fixed or cannot be reproduced then I would like to ask you to be so kind as to close this bug report. Thank you very much for your cooperation!

Albeit I work a lot with Kdenlive I've never experienced XML serialization bugs as the one you report, so this is really dazzling. Can you describe the steps in detail how to reproduce? I don't understand the step 1, what do you mean?