Re: kdenlive 26.04.3 aborts

On Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:40:17 -0700, Simon J Gerraty writes:
>Hi,
>
>I was having trouble with iPhone viewing an mp4 file rendered by:
>kdenlive-25.12.1

Probably because the render log always ends with

Rendering of /homes/sjg/Videos/Samantha-has-a-shot-of-Rachel.mp4
aborted, resulting video will probably be corrupted. 
Frame: 1170

>
>so I checked if there was a newer version available, and there was:
>kdenlive-26.04.3
>
>so I did 'pkg upgrade' which deleted kdenlive rather than upgrade it.
>
>I installed kdenlive again (26.04.3) but it does not work:
>
>	::::: SHOWING WELCOME!!!!!!
>	:::::::::: CREATING SPLASH SCREEN SPLASH
>	QGLXContext: Failed to create dummy context
>	qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/kdenlive/Splash.qml:190:13: QML Image: Error decodi
>ng=
>: qrc:/pics/splash-background.webp: Unsupported image format
>	QRhiGles2: Failed to create temporary context
>	QRhiGles2: Failed to create context
>	Failed to create RHI (backend 2)
>	Failed to initialize graphics backend for OpenGL.
>
>	[2] + Abort                /homes/sjg/bin/Kdenlive =
>
>
>
>Kdenlive is just a wrapper to set LANG and supress core files:
>
>	#!/bin/sh
>
>	# sadly libmlt core dumps
>	ulimit -c 0
>	LANG=3DC.UTF-8 exec kdenlive "$@"
>
>This is all on
>
>	FreeBSD beast.crufty.net 14.4-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE-p8 releng
>/1=
>4.4-n273754-3de2d29b088e GENERIC amd64
>
>using packages from url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/quarterly"
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks
>--sjg