Bug 478088 - The Compare Effect feature at the Effect/Composition Stack widget is not working
Summary: The Compare Effect feature at the Effect/Composition Stack widget is not working
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: kdenlive
Classification: Applications
Component: User Interface & Miscellaneous (show other bugs)
Version: 23.08.3
Platform: Flatpak Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jean-Baptiste Mardelle
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2023-12-05 01:38 UTC by epadron
Modified: 2023-12-16 15:53 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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The error message that appears at the bottom of the Project Monitor widget (5.41 KB, image/png)
2023-12-05 01:38 UTC, epadron
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Description epadron 2023-12-05 01:38:41 UTC
Created attachment 163881 [details]
The error message that appears at the bottom of the Project Monitor widget

SUMMARY
The Compare Effect feature at the Effect/Composition Stack widget is not working


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Click on the "Compare Effect" button at the Effect/Composition Stack widget

OBSERVED RESULT
Nothing but an error message appears at the bottom of the Project Monitor saying "The alphagrad filter is required for that feature, please install frei0r and restart Kdenlive" (see attachment)

EXPECTED RESULT
Splits the Preview Monitor vertically to do a side-by-side comparison of the clip with and without effects

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Distro: Debian /GNU/Linux 12 
KDE Plasma Version:  5.27.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
❯ flatpak remote-info --log flathub org.kde.kdenlive | head -n 14

ID: org.kde.kdenlive
Ref: app/org.kde.kdenlive/x86_64/stable
Arch: x86_64
Branch: stable
Collection: org.flathub.Stable
Download: 86.6 MB
Installed: 262.8 MB
Runtime: org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15-22.08
Sdk: org.kde.Sdk/x86_64/5.15-22.08

Commit: 3cc2af182c892a1df0909ff97f76c9946b351f3d120a97b0a031277124e3cfac
Parent: f86f66b743bc3137d81f8d9aae3045e57b78a595a16de5b0185012c47c371dfd
Subject: Remove jack2, pw-jack is in the runtime (d7faa8b5)
Date: 2023-12-03 22:35:45 +0000
Comment 1 Bernd 2023-12-05 15:26:18 UTC
Use the appimage or install via kdenlive-stable ppa. It works in both cases.

Flatpak is known to have issues outside of the control of the Kdenlive team.
Comment 2 epadron 2023-12-05 17:42:10 UTC
(In reply to Bernd from comment #1)
> Use the appimage or install via kdenlive-stable ppa. It works in both cases.
> 
> Flatpak is known to have issues outside of the control of the Kdenlive team.

I understand. 

Does the appimage version already have hardware acceleration support? Last time I check it wasn't picking my AMD GPUs.

Is there any plans to officially support flatpak or I misunderstanding the message?
Comment 3 Bernd 2023-12-06 16:06:49 UTC
(In reply to epadron from comment #2)
> Does the appimage version already have hardware acceleration support? Last
> time I check it wasn't picking my AMD GPUs.
> 
> Is there any plans to officially support flatpak or I misunderstanding the
> message?

HW accelaration support is limited across all platforms but a part of the roadmap. It depends on what MLT is doing in this space.

AFAIK, flatpak is put together by a different team. The kdenlive team only provides the appimage, the kdenlive-stable ppa, and the Windows versions.
Comment 4 epadron 2023-12-06 17:42:21 UTC
(In reply to Bernd from comment #3)
> (In reply to epadron from comment #2)
> > Does the appimage version already have hardware acceleration support? Last
> > time I check it wasn't picking my AMD GPUs.
> > 
> > Is there any plans to officially support flatpak or I misunderstanding the
> > message?
> 
> HW accelaration support is limited across all platforms but a part of the
> roadmap. It depends on what MLT is doing in this space.
> 
> AFAIK, flatpak is put together by a different team. The kdenlive team only
> provides the appimage, the kdenlive-stable ppa, and the Windows versions.

Bernd , thank you so much for the information. Now I understand a little bit better each team's scope.

I'd like to reference the GitHub issue I created for the flatpak version of Kdenlive in case it may be of help for someone else getting this unexpected behaviur: https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kdenlive/issues/306

Cheers
Comment 5 epadron 2023-12-16 15:53:15 UTC
This one was a flatpak-only issue and has been already fixed.