olive VS mpp

We need more detail. What OS you are using what olive version (exactly up to commit number). You should make an issue heere: https://github.com/olive-editor/olive/issues

Other free tools I have tried in the past include Kdenlive and Shotcut. Tried Lightworks way back, too, but their free version is now not much better than Filmora. Got one eye on Olive, too, but it's very much still in beta.

To add to what u/Mk-Daniel said, the latest version will always be the one that you get from the website, if you want to see the builds to compare that number you can check out this page

Not sure if this is what you're looking for but might help some https://github.com/olive-editor/olive/discussions/2166

I think it is best for you to create a bug report on GitHub. This is a technical issue. olive-editor/olive

Also, keep an eye on https://olivevideoeditor.org/ for video editing. It is still in Beta, but looks very promising.

My video editor of choice is Kdenlive. It's modeled after Adobe Premiere (more or less), and has a bit of a learning curve. Olive is another promising option, but similarly tricky to master. Openshot is a pretty easy editor that works similarly. All of them are free and open source. Davinci Resolve is a professional-grade editor, and free, but not open source.

> Custom Actions

> It is now possible to arrange custom actions in cascading submenus. Just enter the same submenu name for a custom action in order to place it into the same menu. If you require multiple menu levels, you can achieve that by using '/' in the path of the 'Submenu' entry.*

In 2012 KDE AppMenu Runner was presented as a "plugin which allows to browse, search and select the menubar of the active application".[0]

In 2019 I requested to somehow implement a feature, similar to Blender's "Menu Search"/"Operator Search"[1], into Olive Video Editor.[2]

After it "Action Search" was implemented into Olive Video Editor ('/') shortcut, its code was reused for "Action Search" in Scribus ('Ctrl+/') and then converted into Qt5-plugin.[3,4]

Year later, this Qt5-plugin code reused in for implementing global "Action Search" in helloSystem FreeBSD distribution.[5]

Then "Search and Run a Command" ('/') was added into GIMP.[6]

Guess, GIMP's implementation may be used for other GTK-based apps too (especially Inkscape, which still has no such feature).

[0] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/02/appmenu-runner-the-kde-h...

[1] https://github.com/olive-editor/olive/issues/265

[2] https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/interface/controls...

[3] https://github.com/scribusproject/scribus/issues/109

[4] https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-plugin-actionSearch

[5] https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/issues/21

[6] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/5601

You could try olive 0.2 . I do not know if it does exactly what you want.

I cloned and built it (after building its dependencies: librga from https://github.com/JeffyCN/rockchip_mirrors/tree/linux-rga ; mpp from https://github.com/rockchip-linux/mpp)

There's also video4linux2 hardware decode APIs and various vendor-specific libraries, e.g. Rockchip's. On many particular platforms, doing hardware decoding without ffmpeg seems pretty approachable. Even making a nice combo library that supports a variety of them seems feasible. And obviously when the hardware's available (exists, the right kernel drivers are loaded, the C library's around if necessary, the permissions are right, it's not busy, etc.) hardware seems preferable. But it'd be nice to also support a fallback to software and then we're back to ffmpeg.

I know Rockchip have their non-standard "MPP" framework for making use of their hardware encoders and decoders at https://github.com/rockchip-linux/mpp which is an option if you're OK with sticking on the 4.4 BSP kernel.