PAL DV doesn't play

[waynemcl]

Trying to import PAL DV file. When I press play, there is a momentary blue flash in the video display area, then black. The time display in the lower left reads 00:00:00.199 for 1 second, then 00:00:00.200 for one second, then repeats both 4 times (5 times total, over 10 seconds). timer stops at 00:00:00.200

No error messages on command line.

Installed from PPA. Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic, 32bit on via savage km400 chipset.

Command line reports:
--------------------------------
   OpenShot (version 0.9.54)
--------------------------------
/usr/share/openshot/windows/SimpleGladeApp.py:340: GtkWarning: gtk_toolbar_set_icon_size: assertion `icon_size != GTK_ICON_SIZE_INVALID' failed
  return gtk.glade.XML(self.glade_path, root, domain)
A new frmMain has been created
Not the primary instance of OpenShot. Not starting queue watcher thread.
on_mnuPreferences_activate called with self.mnuPreferences
on_mnuReportBug_activate called with self.mnuReportBug
A new frmOpenProject has been created
on_tlbPlay_clicked called with self.tlbPlay
on_tlbPlay_clicked called with self.tlbPlay
on_mnuReportBug_activate called with self.mnuReportBug
on_mnuReportBug_activate called with self.mnuReportBug

Thanks for your work on this, hope this report helps. I look forward to trying the software :-)
Best regards,
Wayne

[Andy Finch (fincha)]

Are you able to play the files using ffplay (the ffmpeg player) and melt (the MLT command line player)? In the terminal type:

ffplay myfile.avi
melt myfile.avi

[waynemcl (waynemcl)]

Hi

Thanks for your reply

ffplay seems fine.
melt reports as not installed. I installed it with apt-get install,
and tried open shot again:

I notice some kind of video mode change when it starts up (relay click
sound from the monitor, slight change in width displayed on the CRT)

I then get the same behaviour reported below.

It may be co-incidence, but dmesg adds lines like:
pulseaudio[1453]: ratelimit.c: 8 events suppressed

at about the moment I press play in openshot (<0.25seconds correlation).

As I exit the program, I get segfault at 10 ip 05c10a90 sp bfeeb450
error 4 in libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.180

Regards
Wayne

On 2010/01/5, at 8:41 PM, Andy Finch wrote:

> Are you able to play the files using ffplay (the ffmpeg player) and
> melt
> (the MLT command line player)? In the terminal type:
>
> ffplay myfile.avi
> melt myfile.avi
>
> --
> PAL DV doesn't play
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503209
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in OpenShot Video Editor: New
>
> Bug description:
> Trying to import PAL DV file. When I press play, there is a
> momentary blue flash in the video display area, then black. The time
> display in the lower left reads 00:00:00.199 for 1 second, then
> 00:00:00.200 for one second, then repeats both 4 times (5 times
> total, over 10 seconds). timer stops at 00:00:00.200
>
> No error messages on command line.
>
> Installed from PPA. Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic, 32bit on via savage km400
> chipset.
>
> Command line reports:
> --------------------------------
> OpenShot (version 0.9.54)
> --------------------------------
> /usr/share/openshot/windows/SimpleGladeApp.py:340: GtkWarning:
> gtk_toolbar_set_icon_size: assertion `icon_size !=
> GTK_ICON_SIZE_INVALID' failed
> return gtk.glade.XML(self.glade_path, root, domain)
> A new frmMain has been created
> Not the primary instance of OpenShot. Not starting queue watcher
> thread.
> on_mnuPreferences_activate called with self.mnuPreferences
> on_mnuReportBug_activate called with self.mnuReportBug
> A new frmOpenProject has been created
> on_tlbPlay_clicked called with self.tlbPlay
> on_tlbPlay_clicked called with self.tlbPlay
> on_mnuReportBug_activate called with self.mnuReportBug
> on_mnuReportBug_activate called with self.mnuReportBug
>
>
>
> Thanks for your work on this, hope this report helps. I look forward
> to trying the software :-)
> Best regards,
> Wayne
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/503209/+subscribe

[Andy Finch (fincha)]

Sorry, I'm a bit unclear from your reply if the file played OK with melt or not.

Also, in your original post you have the following line in the command line output:

Not the primary instance of OpenShot. Not starting queue watcher thread.

This may mean there is another instance still running, so you should check your processes and kill any hanging processes of Openshot.

[waynemcl (waynemcl)]

Hi
Thanks again for your reply.

After melt was installed, the DV still did not play. I rebooted the
box, and tried again:

Same result: the video did not play, /var/log/messages received new
lines of the form:
pulseaudio[1466]: ratelimit.c: 8 events suppressed

There were no messages about "not primary instance" this time.

I then added an mpeg1 codec file to the project. This also would not
play. There were no errors reported on the command line of the
terminal from which I called openshot.

update: the chipset is KM266/KL266, not the 400 I described.

Thanks for your attention. I will be re-configuring the xserver on
this machine to solve a different problem in an CAD package, I will
let you know if it affects or improves this program.

Cheers
W

On 2010/01/5, at 10:45 PM, Andy Finch wrote:

> Sorry, I'm a bit unclear from your reply if the file played OK with
> melt
> or not.
>
> Also, in your original post you have the following line in the command
> line output:
>
> Not the primary instance of OpenShot. Not starting queue watcher
> thread.
>
> This may mean there is another instance still running, so you should
> check your processes and kill any hanging processes of Openshot.
>
> --
> PAL DV doesn't play
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503209
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in OpenShot Video Editor: New
>
> Bug description:
> Trying to import PAL DV file. When I press play, there is a
> momentary blue flash in the video display area, then black. The time
> display in the lower left reads 00:00:00.199 for 1 second, then
> 00:00:00.200 for one second, then repeats both 4 times (5 times
> total, over 10 seconds). timer stops at 00:00:00.200
>
> No error messages on command line.
>
> Installed from PPA. Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic, 32bit on via savage km400
> chipset.
>
> Command line reports:
> --------------------------------
> OpenShot (version 0.9.54)
> --------------------------------
> /usr/share/openshot/windows/SimpleGladeApp.py:340: GtkWarning:
> gtk_toolbar_set_icon_size: assertion `icon_size !=
> GTK_ICON_SIZE_INVALID' failed
> return gtk.glade.XML(self.glade_path, root, domain)
> A new frmMain has been created
> Not the primary instance of OpenShot. Not starting queue watcher
> thread.
> on_mnuPreferences_activate called with self.mnuPreferences
> on_mnuReportBug_activate called with self.mnuReportBug
> A new frmOpenProject has been created
> on_tlbPlay_clicked called with self.tlbPlay
> on_tlbPlay_clicked called with self.tlbPlay
> on_mnuReportBug_activate called with self.mnuReportBug
> on_mnuReportBug_activate called with self.mnuReportBug
>
>
>
> Thanks for your work on this, hope this report helps. I look forward
> to trying the software :-)
> Best regards,
> Wayne
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/503209/+subscribe

[Andy Finch (fincha)]

That shows that MLT can't play your .dv files for whatever reason. Are you able to try with any other file types? Audio or image files should also work if you don't have any other video files. Either it is just limited to some filetypes or your MLT installation is completely broken. If the MLT installation is totally broken then I'm not too sure how to get it working.

But without MLT working, Openshot won't do a lot.

[waynemcl (waynemcl)]

Hi Andrew

I'm sorry, I was again not clear. After installing melt, melt _could_
successfully play the DV. Trying to play the DV from in Openshot still
failed however.

I have changed my xserver settings (diabled DRI and changed
resolution, set for SW mousepointer). At the moment ffplay and melt
both play the DV with no errors reported on the command line.

Openshot is still failing to play the DV, and an MPEG1 transcode of
the same clip. I still see no errors reported on the openshot command
line.

There are still ALSA messages appearing in user.log, syslog and
messages.

Thanks for your interest, regards
Wayne

On 2010/01/6, at 11:43 AM, Andy Finch wrote:

> That shows that MLT can't play your .dv files for whatever reason. Are
> you able to try with any other file types? Audio or image files should
> also work if you don't have any other video files. Either it is just
> limited to some filetypes or your MLT installation is completely
> broken.
> If the MLT installation is totally broken then I'm not too sure how to
> get it working.
>
> But without MLT working, Openshot won't do a lot.
>
> --
> PAL DV doesn't play
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503209
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in OpenShot Video Editor: New
>
> Bug description:
> Trying to import PAL DV file. When I press play, there is a
> momentary blue flash in the video display area, then black. The time
> display in the lower left reads 00:00:00.199 for 1 second, then
> 00:00:00.200 for one second, then repeats both 4 times (5 times
> total, over 10 seconds). timer stops at 00:00:00.200
>
> No error messages on command line.
>
> Installed from PPA. Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic, 32bit on via savage km400
> chipset.
>
> Command line reports:
> --------------------------------
> OpenShot (version 0.9.54)
> --------------------------------
> /usr/share/openshot/windows/SimpleGladeApp.py:340: GtkWarning:
> gtk_toolbar_set_icon_size: assertion `icon_size !=
> GTK_ICON_SIZE_INVALID' failed
> return gtk.glade.XML(self.glade_path, root, domain)
> A new frmMain has been created
> Not the primary instance of OpenShot. Not starting queue watcher
> thread.
> on_mnuPreferences_activate called with self.mnuPreferences
> on_mnuReportBug_activate called with self.mnuReportBug
> A new frmOpenProject has been created
> on_tlbPlay_clicked called with self.tlbPlay
> on_tlbPlay_clicked called with self.tlbPlay
> on_mnuReportBug_activate called with self.mnuReportBug
> on_mnuReportBug_activate called with self.mnuReportBug
>
>
>
> Thanks for your work on this, hope this report helps. I look forward
> to trying the software :-)
> Best regards,
> Wayne
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/503209/+subscribe

[Andy Finch (fincha)]

Can you check if you have libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio installed? How about images or audio files in Openshot, do they play?

[Olivier Girard (eolinwen)]

Andy have reason, it seems missed you something (certainly libsdl1.2debian-pusleaudio). You can check your depedencies here : http://openshotusers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=33

[waynemcl (waynemcl)]

Hi,
Thanks for your suggestions.

libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio is installed, version 1.2.13-4ubuntu4
I have added a .jpg to the project, and double clicking on it previewed it
OK. When I double clicked on the .DV file and the .mpeg file, hey both
also played.

I restarted openshot, clicked on the dv and
pressed play, and it didn't. I then double clicked on the .DV file, and it
did play in the preview window. It looks like I was just unable to use the
UI.

Thanks for your help trying to track this down.

Best regards
Wayne

> Can you check if you have
libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio installed? How
> about images or audio
files in Openshot, do they play?
>
> --
> PAL DV
doesn't play
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503209
>
You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in OpenShot Video Editor:
New
>
> Bug description:
> Trying to import PAL
DV file. When I press play, there is a momentary blue
> flash in
the video display area, then black. The time display in the lower
> left reads 00:00:00.199 for 1 second, then 00:00:00.200 for one
second,
> then repeats both 4 times (5 times total, over 10
seconds). timer stops at
> 00:00:00.200
>
> No
error messages on command line.
>
> Installed from PPA.
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic, 32bit on via savage km400 chipset.
>
> Command line reports:
> --------------------------------
> OpenShot (version 0.9.54)
>
--------------------------------
>
/usr/share/openshot/windows/SimpleGladeApp.py:340: GtkWarning:
>
gtk_toolbar_set_icon_size: assertion `icon_size !=
GTK_ICON_SIZE_INVALID'
> failed
> return
gtk.glade.XML(self.glade_path, root, domain)
> A new frmMain has
been created
> Not the primary instance of OpenShot. Not starting
queue watcher thread.
> on_mnuPreferences_activate called with
self.mnuPreferences
> on_mnuReportBug_activate called with
self.mnuReportBug
> A new frmOpenProject has been created
> on_tlbPlay_clicked called with self.tlbPlay
>
on_tlbPlay_clicked called with self.tlbPlay
>
on_mnuReportBug_activate called with self.mnuReportBug
>
on_mnuReportBug_activate called with self.mnuReportBug
>
>
>
> Thanks for your work on this, hope this
report helps. I look forward to
> trying the software :-)
> Best regards,
> Wayne
>
> To unsubscribe
from this bug, go to:
>
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/503209/+subscribe
>

[Andy Finch (fincha)]

Aha!

We have the help manual online, which should help out with the basics:

http://www.openshotusers.com/help/en/html/

I'll close this bug then.