Comment 11 for bug 571954

I am not sure whether the below is the "correct" way of doing it all, but I will show you what I did:

First get all the below:
sudo apt-get install x264 ffmpeg python python-xdg python-gtk2 python-glade2 python-pygoocanvas libgoocanvas3 libgoocanvas-common python-mlt2 melt libmlt2 libmlt-data libmlt++3 frei0r-plugins libsox-dev libjack-dev ladspa-sdk libxml2-dev libsdl-dev libsdlimage-dev

Also get the latest git commit:
git clone git://mltframework.org/mlt.git

then untar the file you got from git and cd to the directory where the configure file is.

then do this:
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gpl --qimage-libdir=/usr/lib/ --qimage-includedir=/udr/include/qt4 --avformat-swscale

then:
make

then:
sudo make install

Hope this helps.