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Olivier Girard (eolinwen) wrote : Re: [Openshot.bugs] [Bug 1246976] Re: OpenShot crashing when saving project, then using the timeline or controls to set playback position

Oups, I've done a typing error. It was mlt and not melt. Sorry. Could you
do another one screenshot, please ? Thanks.

Another thing. Could you run OS in a console and do what you are doing and
copy/paste the output ?

2014-12-21 0:50 GMT+01:00 dbclinton <email address hidden>:

> > If you are using old projects and they are crashing (and not with new
> projects) I'm afraid that they are corrupted.
>
> It was a completely new project that was crashing this time.
> I've attached a screenshot of "melt" in Synaptic.
> Thanks!
>
> ** Attachment added: "Synaptic - melt"
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/1246976/+attachment/4284923/+files/synaptic.png
>
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> Title:
> OpenShot crashing when saving project, then using the timeline or
> controls to set playback position
>
> Status in OpenShot Video Editor:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> CPU: AMD 64bit 8 core cpu
> OS: Ubuntu Linux (64bit) Raring ringtail upgraded online from 12.04LTS;
> 12.04LTS installed from ISO.
>
> Installed OpenShot from "Ubuntu Software Center"
> version 1.4.4~alpha1
>
> Melt: 0.8.8
> FFMPEG: 0.8.6-6:0.8.6-1ubuntu2 insstalled using "Ubuntu Software Center"
>
> -----
>
> What's odd is I think this is both an OS level and higher library
> bug(s). Occassionally the entire OS will hang with the mouse cursor will
> still work, but the graphics seem to be frozen. Getting loads of
> segmentation faults from OpenShot when...
> Saving the project, then going to the timeline or video controls to set
> the current playback position, or advance back to the beginning - pretty
> much any change in the videos position = instant crash. If I reload the
> same project after saving it, without changing the current playback
> position, I have no such problem until I save and immediately try to change
> the timelines position (seems to be something with that entire process).
> Oddly enough, I could postone the "crash" by saving, adding a new track,
> then setting the playback position where-ever I wanted. Worked for awhile,
> but then crashed after every save again.
>
> On the OS side, i've noticed on a slower single core system (1.8
> processor), if I click an control or option anywhere in OpenShot (or
> anything for that matter, ie.,. audacity) and don't allow the previous
> function to complete... the applications hang. It's like a messaging
> sync problem with the underlying libraries (doesn't wait for the
> current function to conplete before attempting the next one).
>
> Also, the first video I made with OpenShot a month ago, didn't exibit
> these problems. It seems to have started within the past 3 weeks
> (perhaps during the upgrade, or with an underlying library not quite
> in sync with the layers above).
>
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