Please note that if you already have mlt installed on the system please remove it before doing make install. Otherwise the updated libraries won't load.
Also the make for mlt does not install the libraries to the right place. Copy mlt.i mlt.py mlt.pyc and _mlt.so in mlt-version/src/swig/python/ to your python directory (such as /usr/lib/python2.6/).
Fixed the issue. It was related to mlt not being compiled right. I had to download sources for mlt and use the below configure command
./configure --enable-gpl --disable-mmx --avformat-swscale -avformat- ldextra= -lmp3lame -lfaad -lfaac -lxvidcore -lx264 -lvorbis -ltheora -lvorbisenc -logg -lbz2 --debug --swig- languages= python
Please note that if you already have mlt installed on the system please remove it before doing make install. Otherwise the updated libraries won't load.
Also the make for mlt does not install the libraries to the right place. Copy mlt.i mlt.py mlt.pyc and _mlt.so in mlt-version/ src/swig/ python/ to your python directory (such as /usr/lib/ python2. 6/).