Hello! I’ve been using Kdenlive fine on my Fedora Linux, but I’m trying to set it up on a Windows now. I really need to get the SeamlessM4T/Whisper plugin set, to create Portuguese subtitles for an English video. I keep getting this error, though:
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Ignoring triton: markers 'python_version < "3.13" and ((platform_machine == "x86_64" and sys_platform == "linux") or sys_platform == "linux2")' don't match your environment
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Installing missing packages: {'C:/Program Files/Kdenlive/bin/data/kdenlive/scripts/whisper/requirements-seamless.txt', 'C:/Program Files/Kdenlive/bin/data/kdenlive/scripts/whisper/requirements-whisper.txt'} Using tmp folder: C:\Users\Barbara\.cache/pip-kdenlive-tmp-folder
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Kdenlive\bin\data\kdenlive\scripts\whisper\seamlessquery.py", line 29, in <module>
sys.exit(main(**dict(arg.split('=') for arg in sys.argv[1:])))
~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ValueError: dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required
Error downloading model:
C:/Program Files/Kdenlive/bin/data/kdenlive/scripts/whisper/seamlessquery.py
Could a good soul help me figure out what’s even happening? I’m completely clueless about how to even go about fixing this.