openmovieeditor VERY, VERY slow - unusable

[Marius Groenewald]

Open Movie Editor is VERY, VERY slow. After I load a MPG file, it slows down my whole laptop, until I manage to close it - after a while of clicking on a menu or button and wait for anything to happen. It is totally unusable.

I am running on Kubuntu 9.04 and it is Open Movie Editor version 0.0.20080102.

I have a laptop with a Centrino CPU and a ATI Mobile X300 Graphics card.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in openmovieeditor.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport, either via the appropriate application's "Help -> Report a Problem" menu or using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Hi,

Does it happen only with mpeg files or with all videos (also avi's)?

Can you also provide the result of the command
apt-cache policy openmovieeditor ?

Thanks,
Fabrice

[Marius Groenewald (groenem)]

I removed Open Movie Editor after I struggled with it, so I had to install it again. But this time it does not open at all. I clicked on the icon, the application appeared on the task bar, but no application window opens. After a few seconds it disappear from the task bar also.

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Hi,

Can you try running it from the command line, and send back the output?
Also, you could try with the version in my ppa (https://launchpad.net/~fabricesp/+archive/ppa)?

Thanks,
Fabrice

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Marius Groenewald (groenem)]

Sorry I took so long for a reply. I did not have time these past few months to play around with movie editing.
I converted from Kubuntu 9.04 (KDE) to Ubuntu 9.04 (Gnome) in the meanwhile - duel boot. I installed Open Movie Editor again, but still it did not want to open. I followed your suggestion to try your PPA and it updated my version of Open Movie Editor, as well as a few other media files. Unfortunately, it still does not work. I select it from the Applications menu, but nothing happens. Below is he message I get when I try to run it from command line:

marius@LinuxMG:~$ openmovieeditor
When submitting a BUG report, or SUPPORT request, please include the following information:
(See Help->About... too)
----8<-----------------------
Open Movie Editor Version: 0.0.20090105
Libquicktime Version: 1.1.0
Libquicktime API Version: 9
/etc/debian_version:
5.0
/etc/lsb-release:
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jaunty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.04"
----8<-----------------------
Illegal instruction
marius@LinuxMG:~$

I hope this helps.

Thank you for your passion to get it right.

[Marius Groenewald (groenem)]

I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 with a clean installation. I tried OpenMovieEditor again. This time it opens, but it is still VERY, VERY slow in playing back a MPG file. It takes a long before it starts to play, and when it does, it plays slowly in shutter effect. At least this time it does not freeze up my whole laptop. Also, when I stop the playback, I can now use the "slider", although it is not user friendly enough. I don't know how many frames is skipped as I move it slowly left and right. Even if I click on the "skip frame forward" button, nothing happens.