Understanding/controlling MLT melt slideshow?
Consider the following bash script (on Ubuntu 18.04, melt 6.6.0), which uses melt to make a slideshow and play it locally in a window (SDL consumer), mostly copied from https://mltframework.org/blog/making_nice_slideshows/ ( edit: I'm aware that's its possible to specify files individually as in https://superuser.com/questions/833232/create-video-with-5-images-with-fadein-out-effect-in-ffmpeg/834035#834035 - but that approach seems to scale images during transition, and takes quite a while to "render" before playing in SDL window, while this one has nearly instant playback): echo " description