Comments on: Openshot Video Editor Gets HUGE Update – 30 New Effects, Preview Window, Green Screen, PPA…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:25:00 +0000

Openshot is great. For those who haven’t already noted it, installing openshot on Ubuntu (perhaps other distributions too, not sure) will mess with many apps that need a default install of ffmpeg. VLC and Totem, for instance, both bomb out with openshot installed. Basically they can’t play just about any kind of media. Be warned.
I understand, from a note on the developers website, that he is aware of the issue and is working on it.

Jonathan
http://www.jonathanevatt.com

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:59:00 +0000

Kai, you could not be more incorrect. OpenShot uses the latest and greatest FFmpeg and MLT libraries, has way more features than PiTiVi (effects, transitions, key-frames, alpha-masks, title editor), does not encode it’s frames to PNG, and is not based on any deprecated code. FFmpeg is a very active project, powers most video editors in Linux, and even powers many features used by gstreamer. While I agree that PiTiVi needs to speed up it’s development, please do some research before proclaiming a project deprecated.

By: Kai

Kai — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:47:00 +0000

openshot’s backend is not gstreamer and compared to pitivi it ist very bad. pitivi generates “a featurefull playlist” which will be encoded with gstreamer, but openshot generates pngs which will be encoded with ffmpeg and unstructured encoders. better push pitivi to develope faster, it has more abilities than openshot and its backend-design is not so deprecated

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:06:00 +0000

Well, I’m game for a little hard work for a lot of benefit, but OpenShot has just broken my new install of Ubuntu 9.10 … The problems appear to be known, but not fixed. I recommend you stay far away from this issue, as it takes down Mplayer, Totem and VLC by blowing up gstreamer’s ffmeg files.See https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/442761 for more info. Now I have the nasty job of uninstalling/reinstalling a bunch of apps and seeing if I can rebuild things.

Oh, and now I found that it removed XvidCap from my system … without even asking or notifying me.
It would nice if it runs, it just doesn’t run very often. …. Maybe Piviti deserves another look ;(

By: dRewsus

dRewsus — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:28:00 +0000

Can you do this if the repo ISN’T a ppa?
like, for:
deb http://www.remastersys.klikit-linux.com/repository remastersys/
or:
deb http://le-web.org/repository stable main
??
That would be very helpful to me!

By: rapsodia

rapsodia — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:04:00 +0000

guys read this solution posted let me know if you need more help I fixed my ubuntu easily

http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8046845#post8046845

By: Maki

Maki — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:10:00 +0000

Install the last version of VLC. You can get it from this PPA https://launchpad.net/~c-korn/+archive/vlc

By: Maki

Maki — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:01:00 +0000

Do you try do it with Arista Transcoder?

By: onoametal

onoametal — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:04:00 +0000

As you said, I broke video playback installing this software… Now I can’t play video files anymore… Suggestions?

By: Jonathan Thomas

Jonathan Thomas — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:54:00 +0000

We are working on a solution to the PPA breaking video players. FFmpeg is quite complicated… and many common video players (such as VLC) are un-installed after installing OpenShot… since they depend on a different version of ffmpeg. Hopefully we’ll have a fix soon. Stay tuned… =)

By: Andrew Rayburn

Andrew Rayburn — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:53:00 +0000

Beware Openshot as it is can totally break video playback.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1281367&highlight=xvid

By: d0od

d0od — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:45:00 +0000

From comments of the official site about this the owner recommends uses the debs. Unlike automatically updating, the .debs will warn you if anything needs to be removed – if you see vlc being selected from removal, just hit cancel.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:36:00 +0000

Yeah. I think you better put a warning. If you are on Jaunty then it can be a nasty surprise to see that vlc suddenly doesn’t work.

But thanks for the tip. removing the PPA and downgrading ffmpeg to the previous version fixed vlc.

Can you confirm that just installing the openshot deb will not mess with the other packages? I’m quite new to linux.

Ben

By: d0od

d0od — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:01:00 +0000

I’ll update the post warning of this. A simple fix is simply to use the .deb’s from the PPA and not the PPA itself (for the time being).

If anyoen else has issues with this – simply remove vlc (if it hasn’t already been removed! eek) and then reinstall ffmpeg.

By: Ninja

Ninja — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:43:00 +0000

I like OpenShot but installing it from the PPA badly messed up my codecs, so that VLC and Totem would not open video files of any kind. It took me a while and some help to figure things out; I finally had to uninstall OpenShot and downgrade various packages.
If anyone is having the same problem, I am linking the thread in which a kindly stranger helped me out. It is in Italian, but I suppose you can figure things out. If not, feel free to contact me.
I hope the developing of Open Shot goes fast and quickly gets to a stable release!

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:32:00 +0000

Looks interesting. But installing Openshot removed vlc player. When I uninstalled openshot and reinstalled vlc, it now plays the sounds but no video so a assume there is something wrong with the PPA openshot packages? If not then a warning that it will break vlc is important.

Running Jaunty 64bit

By: d0od

d0od — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:13:00 +0000

i noticed this actually.

If you don’t want to lose the codecs install from the .debs.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Wonderful! Added the PPA, will give it a try.

By: Name

Name — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:36:00 +0000

it’s strange that installing openshot from its PPA requires uninstalling ffmpeg libavdevice52 libavfilter0 winff.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:18:00 +0000

Does it use gstreamer?