I’m a quite new to blender and this is my first post here. I’ve tried to find a solution for my problrm but somehow I’ve failed.
The problem is, I can’t load any type of video to blender. I’m running blender 2.69 on Fedora 20. I have newest ffmpeg version and VLC as well.
The strange thing I’ve noticed there are only 3 video formats for 3D rendering - avi raw, avi jpeg and frame server. But after openning any video format other than avi raw and avi jpeg in MCE or VSE I receive an error “cannot load movie”.
Well I guess I have it from blender-2.69-5.fc20.x86_64.rpm - I didn’t compile it with cmake.
Do you think the only way is to compile Blender on my own enabling ffmpeg flag?
I thought maybe there is some configuration file just enabling other codecs.
I’ve never compile anything on Linux but it looks like I’ll have to start
You could try to compile blender. That involves loading a ton of additional stuff which usually drags even more dependencies but it’s certainly doable.
Still, read last minute edit in previous post and that other thread.
Thanx. I’ll try buildbot - should be much more easier than compiling everythibg manually.
I’ll let you know
Edit:
Thanks, it helped :). Because of this I’m on 2.71 right now !!! and don’t have to wait till F21 to upgrade using my rpm.
Once again thx for quick help.
I did download Blender as you suggested and … it is ok right now. So I’m on 2.71 right now - don’t have to wait to F21 to get new Blender in standard RPM.
Welcome!
Mind you -this is cutting edge. Can be buggy from time to time (keep some older version around which you know works for you).
Read about and use …/2.7x/config folder to keep addons and preferences from clashes upon some code changes.
