I realize this type of thing has been covered in other threads, however obviously my problem is different - and it is stubborn enough to where I just cannot figure out what is wrong.
I'm trying to run with the latest packages Debian Multimedia/testing. I can never get "melt -query producers" to show avformat, even though /usr/lib/mlt/libmltavformat.so exists and there are no broken links (ldd) with any executable or shared library that I can find.
ffmpeg, melt, kdenlive, etc. - all coming from the same repository (again, Debian Multimedia / testing).
I've tried removing melt, ffmpeg, kdenlive, libavformat52, etc. - then looking for leftover shared libraries, could find none, reinstalled, etc.
I'll get the basics out of the way first. Any hints or suggestions would be most appreciated!
FFmpeg version SVN-r25838, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jan 21 2011 08:21:58 with gcc 4.4.5
configuration: --enable-libdc1394 --prefix=/usr --extra-cflags='-Wall -g ' --cc='ccache cc' --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libxvid --enable-postproc --enable-x11grab --enable-libgsm --enable-libtheora --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libx264 --enable-libspeex --enable-nonfree --disable-stripping --enable-avfilter --enable-libdirac --disable-decoder=libdirac --enable-libschroedinger --disable-encoder=libschroedinger --enable-version3 --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libvpx --enable-librtmp --extra-libs=-lgcrypt --disable-altivec --disable-armv5te --disable-armv6 --disable-vis
libavutil 50.33. 0 / 50.33. 0
libavcore 0.14. 0 / 0.14. 0
libavcodec 52.97. 2 / 52.97. 2
libavformat 52.87. 1 / 52.87. 1
libavdevice 52. 2. 2 / 52. 2. 2
libavfilter 1.65. 0 / 1.65. 0
libswscale 0.12. 0 / 0.12. 0
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
$ kdenlive --version
Qt: 4.6.3
KDE Development Platform: 4.4.5 (KDE 4.4.5)
Kdenlive: 0.7.8
MLT melt 0.6.2
# ldd /usr/lib/mlt/libmltavformat.so
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff347ff000)
libmlt.so.3 => /usr/lib/libmlt.so.3 (0x00007feddce80000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007feddcc64000)
libavformat.so.52 => /usr/lib/libavformat.so.52 (0x00007feddc988000)
libavcodec.so.52 => /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.52 (0x00007feddbcac000)
libavutil.so.50 => /usr/lib/libavutil.so.50 (0x00007feddba94000)
libswscale.so.0 => /usr/lib/libswscale.so.0 (0x00007feddb85b000)
libavdevice.so.52 => /usr/lib/libavdevice.so.52 (0x00007feddb64e000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007feddb2ed000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007feddb0e8000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007feddd2da000)
libavcore.so.0 => /usr/lib/libavcore.so.0 (0x00007feddaee2000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007feddac60000)
librtmp.so.0 => /usr/lib/librtmp.so.0 (0x00007feddaa47000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007fedda830000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fedda620000)
libxvidcore.so.4 => /usr/lib/libxvidcore.so.4 (0x00007fedda312000)
libx264.so.112 => /usr/lib/libx264.so.112 (0x00007fedda06b000)
libvpx.so.0 => /usr/lib/libvpx.so.0 (0x00007fedd9c4b000)
libvorbisenc.so.2 => /usr/lib/libvorbisenc.so.2 (0x00007fedd977c000)
libvorbis.so.0 => /usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0 (0x00007fedd9550000)
libtheoraenc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libtheoraenc.so.1 (0x00007fedd9311000)
libtheoradec.so.1 => /usr/lib/libtheoradec.so.1 (0x00007fedd90f7000)
libspeex.so.1 => /usr/lib/libspeex.so.1 (0x00007fedd8ede000)
libschroedinger-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libschroedinger-1.0.so.0 (0x00007fedd8c34000)
libopenjpeg.so.2 => /usr/lib/libopenjpeg.so.2 (0x00007fedd8a13000)
libopencore-amrwb.so.0 => /usr/lib/libopencore-amrwb.so.0 (0x00007fedd87f8000)
libopencore-amrnb.so.0 => /usr/lib/libopencore-amrnb.so.0 (0x00007fedd85bd000)
libmp3lame.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 (0x00007fedd8327000)
libgsm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgsm.so.1 (0x00007fedd811a000)
libfaac.so.0 => /usr/lib/libfaac.so.0 (0x00007fedd7f08000)
libdirac_encoder.so.0 => /usr/lib/libdirac_encoder.so.0 (0x00007fedd7c6f000)
libva.so.1 => /usr/lib/libva.so.1 (0x00007fedd7a10000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00007fedd76d4000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00007fedd74c2000)
libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0x00007fedd72bd000)
libjack.so.0 => /usr/lib/libjack.so.0 (0x00007fedd7079000)
libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 (0x00007fedd6d94000)
libdc1394.so.22 => /usr/lib/libdc1394.so.22 (0x00007fedd6b1f000)
libgnutls.so.26 => /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.26 (0x00007fedd687b000)
libgcrypt.so.11 => /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.11 (0x00007fedd6603000)
libogg.so.0 => /usr/lib/libogg.so.0 (0x00007fedd63fc000)
liborc-0.4.so.0 => /usr/lib/liborc-0.4.so.0 (0x00007fedd61a2000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fedd5e8e000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fedd5c77000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007fedd5a5b000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007fedd5852000)
libraw1394.so.11 => /usr/lib/libraw1394.so.11 (0x00007fedd5644000)
libusb-1.0.so.0 => /lib/libusb-1.0.so.0 (0x00007fedd5437000)
libtasn1.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtasn1.so.3 (0x00007fedd5226000)
libgpg-error.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007fedd5023000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00007fedd4e20000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007fedd4c1a000)
Any clues? I'm pulling my hair out! Thanks in advance.

Thank you, barjac - for having the patience to deal with an out-of-line anomaly. I appreciate the time you took to respond.
There was a problem getting the kdenlive source from git, but simply running that script again started the process and it is compiling now.
I will certainly report back.