Okay, here is the thing. Whisper seems correctly installed and works as designed.
In previous versions as well as in 25.04.0 I can install “Translations of multiple languages”.
I can do that but when it’s done (I get a checkmark), next time I start Kdenlive it ‘invites’ me to do the same again. Mind you, I use the Flatpak.
Now this is what I get:
Installing missing packages: {‘/app/share/kdenlive/scripts/whisper/requirements-seamless.txt’, ‘/app/share/kdenlive/scripts/whisper/requirements-whisper.txt’} Using tmp folder: /home/xxx/.cache/pip-kdenlive-tmp-folder
Now, I can´t find the /app/share/kdenlive/scripts/andtherest folder anywhere on my system. Mint 22 by the way.
Where should that folder reside? So I can create it.
In general, it’s a claimed ‘feature’ of flatpak that it’s sandboxed from filesystem access outside its own image, and Using tmp folder: /home/xxx/.cache/pip-kdenlive-tmp-folder does sound like something that might be reaped when the runtime image is destroyed.
I don’t know if anything re that was changed for recent flatpak builds, but for this sort of thing, you’re likely to get more reliable joy from the appimage.
Thanks for your reply Ron.
Yes I got that part. I wouldn’t mind if Kdenlive would look out of its dandbox though.
Now here is another weird thing: I downloaded the Appimage and it gives me the exact same behaviour. In fact, Whisper is already installed too.
It seems to me that both the Flatpak and the Appimage look for plug-ins in the same places and use them too.
Unfortunately I am not savvy enough to figure this one out by myself.
Ok, that’s an interesting data point. I know there were some changes to the python venv handling, but this isn’t something I’ve been using myself to know if its newly broken.
It’s possible there’s some conflict with things you’d installed previously, or just something you need to do differently to what you previously did now.
Yes, it is a bit weird. With the AppImage I checked if SAM was installed and it is not!
Whisper however is.
Mind you, all I am trying to achive is to avoid getting ‘invited’ to install the multilingual thing.
Subtitles with Whisper works just fine. Including several languages.
The subs get translated to Dutch fine as well. Although Whisper adds words which aren’t being said. But that is beside the point.
So in fact, all works well. No blues and toos needed to solve this.
I was merely interested where those folders should reside.
There simply is no /app/share/kdenlive/etcetera on my installation.
Oh I checked the documentation as well but there’s nothing to solve this.