openshot bleeding-edge PPA ubuntu 9.10 karmic export crashes

[sk8dork]

similar to bug#442647
ubuntu 9.10 karmic 32bit, OpenShot (version 0.9.53) installed from experimental bleeding edge ppa.

i installed openshot with one of the methods prior to the experimental bleeding edge ppa being released, and i edited video from a flip ultraHD and exported to DVD format just fine. i can't recall which method i used, but it could have been either the 9.04 deb or the dev ppa for 9.10. at any rate, i had a previous version installed. i recently bought a kodak zi8 and wanted to try editing video from it in openshot. at the same time i noticed you released the experimental bleeding edge ppa that is supposed to work for 9.10 32bit without breaking other programs, so i wanted to try that. openshot kept crashing whenever i tried to export video to Youtube-HD and Vimeo-HD presets. i think i've narrowed it down to having to be related to the audio codecs, but i'm not sure what to do. i am able to export to the Flickr-HD preset just fine, which uses the same video codec i think but ac3 audio, and it plays in totem. if i pick the Vimeo-HD or Youtube-HD presets and change the audio to ac3 they export fine as well. i tried to read around to figure out what i might need to do to fix this, and ended up completely removing all packages related to mlt, ffmpeg, x264, openshot, and then reinstalling openshot and letting it pick its dependencies from the bleeding edge ppa. anyway here is what i found from running openshot in verbose mode from the terminal, my comments after //

//youtube-HD- uses mp4 and x264 codec for vid, libfaac for aud
on_cboExportTo_changed
on_btnExportVideo_clicked
[mp3 @ 0x9422c70]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0x97f8e30]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0x8f0a870]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0x9231a20]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
consumer_avformat.c: audio codec libfaac unrecognised - ignoring
consumer_avformat.c: video codec libx264 unrecognised - ignoring
consumer_avformat.c: Unable to encode audio - disabling audio output.
[mp4 @ 0x8f1ff80]track 1: codec frame size is not set
[mp3 @ 0x9440210]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0x94175f0]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
Floating point exception
//crashed

//flickr-HD- uses mov and x264 codec for vid, ac3 for aud
on_cboExportTo_changed
on_btnExportVideo_clicked
[mp3 @ 0x8dcd370]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0x8dcd970]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0x8dca470]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0x8c6e010]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
consumer_avformat.c: video codec libx264 unrecognised - ignoring
[mp3 @ 0x8901f10]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0x8e901f0]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
    Last message repeated 1 times
[h264 @ 0x901ad00]B picture before any references, skipping
[h264 @ 0x901ad00]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x901ad00]no frame!
[h264 @ 0x901ad00]B picture before any references, skipping
[h264 @ 0x901ad00]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x901ad00]no frame!
on_frmExportVideo_destroy
//video exported, had to install libmpeg4ip-0 to view in totem

//youtube-HD, just changed advanced audio to ac3, exports
on_cboExportTo_changed
on_btnExportVideo_clicked
[mp3 @ 0xa8f14e0]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0xa8f1950]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0xa7cb700]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0xa7cbd20]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
consumer_avformat.c: video codec libx264 unrecognised - ignoring
[mp3 @ 0xa59cb40]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0xa90a830]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
    Last message repeated 1 times
[h264 @ 0xac81060]B picture before any references, skipping
[h264 @ 0xac81060]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xac81060]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xac81060]B picture before any references, skipping
[h264 @ 0xac81060]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xac81060]no frame!
on_frmExportVideo_destroy
//video exported fine

//installed lame and ubuntu-restricted-extras, and faac
//same exact crash errors when trying to export with libfaac or lamemp3 audio

at this point i have the following versions installed:
mlt-python - 0.4.7e-0ubuntu4~ppa1k
libmlt++2 - 0.4.4-2build1
openshot - 0.9.53-0ubuntu4~ppa1k
libmlt-data - 0.4.4-2build1
libmlt1 - 0.4.4-2build1
frei0r-plugins 1.1.22git20090409+repack-0ubuntu1
ffmpeg - 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg - 0.10.9-1
libavcodec52 - 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2
libavdevice52 - 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2
libavfilter0 - 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2
libavformat52 - 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2
libavutil49 - 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2
libmpeg4ip-0 - 1:1.6dfsg-0.2ubuntu5
libpostproc51 - 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2
libswscale0 - 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2
x264 - 1:0.svn20090621+git364d7d-0ubuntu2
libx264-67 - 1:0.svn20090621+git364d7d-0ubuntu2
faac - 1.26-0.1ubuntu2
libfaac0 - - 1.26-0.1ubuntu2
lame - 3.98.2+debian-0ubuntu2
libmp3lame0 - 3.98.2+debian-0ubuntu2
sox - 14.3.0-1build1

let me know if i forgot something.

[Olivier Girard (eolinwen)]

Hello sk8dork
Thanks for your report.
it's seems to be a problem with ffmpeg or x264. Could you put the result of this command, pleasse :
ffmpeg -formats
Thanks

[sk8dork (sk8dork)]

FFmpeg version SVN-r19352-4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --extra-version=4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2 --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-vdpau --enable-bzlib --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-zlib --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --extra-cflags=-I/build/buildd/ffmpeg-0.5+svn20090706/debian/include --enable-shared --disable-static
  libavutil 49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
  libavcodec 52.20. 0 / 52.20. 0
  libavformat 52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
  libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
  libavfilter 0. 4. 0 / 0. 4. 0
  libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
  libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
  built on Oct 13 2009 22:15:16, gcc: 4.4.1
File formats:
  E 3g2 3GP2 format
  E 3gp 3GP format
 D 4xm 4X Technologies format
 D IFF IFF format
 D ISS Funcom ISS format
 D MTV MTV format
 DE RoQ raw id RoQ format
 D aac raw ADTS AAC
 DE ac3 raw AC-3
  E adts ADTS AAC
 DE aiff Audio IFF
 DE alaw PCM A-law format
 DE alsa ALSA audio output
 DE amr 3GPP AMR file format
 D apc CRYO APC format
 D ape Monkey's Audio
 DE asf ASF format
  E asf_stream ASF format
 DE ass SSA/ASS format
 DE au SUN AU format
 DE avi AVI format
  E avm2 Flash 9 (AVM2) format
 D avs AVS format
 D bethsoftvid Bethesda Softworks VID format
 D bfi Brute Force & Ignorance
 D c93 Interplay C93
 D cavsvideo raw Chinese AVS video
  E crc CRC testing format
 DE daud D-Cinema audio format
 DE dirac raw Dirac
 DE dnxhd raw DNxHD (SMPTE VC-3)
 D dsicin Delphine Software International CIN format
 DE dts raw DTS
 DE dv DV video format
 D dv1394 DV1394 A/V grab
  E dvd MPEG-2 PS format (DVD VOB)
 D dxa DXA
 D ea Electronic Arts Multimedia Format
 D ea_cdata Electronic Arts cdata
 DE eac3 raw E-AC-3
 DE f32be PCM 32 bit floating-point big-endian format
 DE f32le PCM 32 bit floating-point little-endian format
 DE f64be PCM 64 bit floating-point big-endian format
 DE f64le PCM 64 bit floating-point little-endian format
 DE ffm FFM (FFserver live feed) format
 D film_cpk Sega FILM/CPK format
 DE flac raw FLAC
 D flic FLI/FLC/FLX animation format
 DE flv FLV format
  E framecrc framecrc testing format
  E gif GIF Animation
 D gsm raw GSM
 DE gxf GXF format
 DE h261 raw H.261
 DE h263 raw H.263
 DE h264 raw H.264 video format
 D idcin id Cinematic format
 DE image2 image2 sequence
 DE image2pipe piped image2 sequenc...

[Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph)]

Do you have the "x264" package installed? Also, have you tried using
"ffmpeg" to convert some video to libx264 codec?

Let's try this command, and see if libx264 works with MLT:
$ melt -verbose -profile dv_pal_wide /home/jonathan/Desktop/example.avi
-consumer avformat:/home/jonathan/Desktop/example.mp4 acodec=mpeg2 ab=128k
ar=44100 f=mp4 vcodec=libx264 minrate=0 b=900k

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:03 PM, sk8dork <email address hidden> wrote:

> FFmpeg version SVN-r19352-4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2, Copyright (c)
> 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
> configuration: --extra-version=4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2 --prefix=/usr
> --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-vdpau --enable-bzlib
> --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex
> --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-zlib
> --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-gpl --enable-postproc
> --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394
> --extra-cflags=-I/build/buildd/ffmpeg-0.5+svn20090706/debian/include
> --enable-shared --disable-static
> libavutil 49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
> libavcodec 52.20. 0 / 52.20. 0
> libavformat 52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
> libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
> libavfilter 0. 4. 0 / 0. 4. 0
> libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
> libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
> built on Oct 13 2009 22:15:16, gcc: 4.4.1
> File formats:
> E 3g2 3GP2 format
> E 3gp 3GP format
> D 4xm 4X Technologies format
> D IFF IFF format
> D ISS Funcom ISS format
> D MTV MTV format
> DE RoQ raw id RoQ format
> D aac raw ADTS AAC
> DE ac3 raw AC-3
> E adts ADTS AAC
> DE aiff Audio IFF
> DE alaw PCM A-law format
> DE alsa ALSA audio output
> DE amr 3GPP AMR file format
> D apc CRYO APC format
> D ape Monkey's Audio
> DE asf ASF format
> E asf_stream ASF format
> DE ass SSA/ASS format
> DE au SUN AU format
> DE avi AVI format
> E avm2 Flash 9 (AVM2) format
> D avs AVS format
> D bethsoftvid Bethesda Softworks VID format
> D bfi Brute Force & Ignorance
> D c93 Interplay C93
> D cavsvideo raw Chinese AVS video
> E crc CRC testing format
> DE daud D-Cinema audio format
> DE dirac raw Dirac
> DE dnxhd raw DNxHD (SMPTE VC-3)
> D dsicin Delphine Software International CIN format
> DE dts raw DTS
> DE dv DV video format
> D dv1394 DV1394 A/V grab
> E dvd MPEG-2 PS format (DVD VOB)
> D dxa DXA
> D ea Electronic Arts Multimedia Format
> D ea_cdata Electronic Arts cdata
> DE eac3 raw E-AC-3
> DE f32be PCM 32 bit floating-point big-endian format
> DE f32le PCM 32 bit floating-point little-endian format
> DE f64be PCM 64 bit floating-point big-endian format
> DE f64le PCM 64 bit floating-point little-endian format
> D...

[sk8dork (sk8dork)]

at the time, i did. i listed the version installed at the bottom of my first post.
since my last post i have tried a few things: removed everything (openshot, mlt, ffmpeg, x264) completely. then i started over with the build wizard. once i realized that the build wizard tells you the wrong path to run openshot from, i got it open and then had a problem where it crashed at the end of encoding Youtube-HD preset. then i removed everything again and re-enabled the developer ppa and installed from there. openshot was then crashing on startup. i then removed everything again, disabled the developer ppa and reenabled the experimental ppa and installed from there. i had was at the same point as i was with my first post, nothing had changed. then i found references saying to install all of the "unstriped" libav packs, so i did that (pretty much everything that has -unstripped in synaptic). now i don't get the x264 error, but i get the libfaac error:

on_cboExportTo_changed
on_btnExportVideo_clicked
[mp3 @ 0xa0c8c50]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0xa0f63f0]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0xa18ebd0]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0xa1b3700]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
consumer_avformat.c: audio codec libfaac unrecognised - ignoring
consumer_avformat.c: Unable to encode audio - disabling audio output.
[mov @ 0xa115840]track 1: codec frame size is not set
[mp3 @ 0xa0fbab0]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0xa105300]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
Floating point exception

i tried the metacafe preset and had no errors, and perfectly rendered video. metacafe uses libmp3lame, so i then rerendered with the Youtube-HD preset but changed the audio to use libmp3lame, and it rendered perfectly:

on_cboProjectType_changed
on_btnExportVideo_clicked
[mp3 @ 0xb1478800]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0xb1478b70]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0xadabf800]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0xaf73dc10]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0x93b3060]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
[mp3 @ 0x9530400]mdb:124, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
    Last message repeated 1 times
[h264 @ 0x9c1eec0]B picture before any references, skipping
[h264 @ 0x9c1eec0]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x9c1eec0]no frame!
[h264 @ 0x9c1eec0]B picture before any references, skipping
[h264 @ 0x9c1eec0]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x9c1eec0]no frame!
on_frmExportVideo_destroy

i tried your command and i get "melt: command not found"
also, the video files from my zi8 are in .MOVs, but i don't know if that'll matter. i do have a .mp4 from my latest rendering with Youtube-HD wth libmp3lame.

[Blackgr (blackfate86)]

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[Blackgr (blackfate86)]

i also installed the open from the ppa and had same proble. I made a custom build of ffmpeg and x264 while the native ubuntu versions are stripped and cant encode with faac while its restricted driver. But that didnt help. It seems like the problem is inside the mlt package. It needs to be rebuilt cause the native ubuntu version is also stripped

[Olivier Girard (eolinwen)]

tried this command and put the result here please :
mlt -query producers
  And a question : is it the install of Openshot in this system or have you do another one before and if it's yes how
Thanks
Olivier

[sk8dork (sk8dork)]

the command mlt -query producers returned the following:
No command 'mlt' found, did you mean:
 Command 'llt' from package 'storebackup' (universe)
 Command 'mft' from package 'texlive-base' (main)
 Command 'mgt' from package 'mgt' (universe)
 Command 'mt' from package 'mt-st' (universe)
 Command 'mt' from package 'star' (universe)
 Command 'mt' from package 'cpio' (main)
 Command 'melt' from package 'melt' (universe)
 Command 'mln' from package 'mmv' (universe)
i do have all of the mlt packages installed that openshot required (installed as dependencies on its own) so i went ahead and installed melt
this is the output from the command melt -query producers:
---
producers:
  - avformat
  - color
  - colour
  - consumer
  - loader
  - hold
  - noise
  - ppm
  - libdv
  - frei0r.ising0r
  - frei0r.lissajous0r
  - frei0r.nois0r
  - frei0r.onecol0r
  - frei0r.partik0l
  - pango
  - pixbuf
  - framebuffer
  - kino
  - melt
  - melt_file
  - qimage
  - pgm
  - vorbis
  - xml
  - xml-string
...

i don't understand your question. i am doing this all on one computer, and i've installed openshot the following ways on this computer with the following results:
installed openshot from build-wizard, chose 9.04 32bit (option 3?) then chose the git build of ffmpeg (option 3?) - crash at end of export
completely removed openshot, mlt, ffmpeg, x264 packages
installed openshot from developers ppa - crashed at startup. deleted the .openshot folder, no change
completely removed openshot, mlt, ffmpeg, x264 packages
installed openshot from experimental ppa - can export x264 with ac3 audio, crashes at start of export with libaac or libmp3lame audio
installed all unstripped libav packages - now openshot can export x264 (and does not say x264 not found as it did before) but still crashes with libfaac audio, exports with no errors perfectly with x264 and libmp3lame audio
installed melt to get your output, did not change the behavior of openshot at all

i redid the command jonathan suggested above with these results:
rgoebel@ronbuntu:~$ melt -verbose -profile dv_pal_wide /home/rgoebel/projects/kodak/kittehshoelove/811_1411.MOV -consumer avformat:/home/rgoebel/projects/kodak/kittehshoelove/test1.MOV acodec=mpeg2 ab=128k ar=44100 f=mp4 vcodec=libx264 minrate=0 b=900k
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x92d3a00]ISO: File Type Major Brand: qt
st:0 removing common factor 3 from timebase
st:1 removing common factor 128 from timebase
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x92ffd20]ISO: File Type Major Brand: qt
st:0 removing common factor 3 from timebase
st:1 removing common factor 128 from timebase
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x9395720]ISO: File Type Major Brand: qt
st:0 removing common factor 3 from timebase
st:1 removing common factor 128 from timebase
consumer_avformat.c: audio codec mpeg2 unrecognised - ignoring
[libx264 @ 0x92da620]interlace + direct=temporal is not implemented
[libx264 @ 0x92da620]using SAR=64/45
[libx264 @ 0x92da620]interlaced (1) > level limit (0)
[libx264 @ 0x92da620]using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 Cache64
[libx264 @ 0x92da620]profile Main, level 5.1
consumer_avformat.c: Unable to encode audio - disabling audio output.
[mp4 @ 0x931be00]track 1: codec ...

[Olivier Girard (eolinwen)]

Humm sk8dork
With this commands, we tried (Jonathan and me) to help you. More you are precise more we are some lucks to help you.
This commands tell us severals things.
First, the melt wasn't installed and it's the reason why you haven't none answer to the Jonathan's commands.
Seconds, you have a big probleme with ffmpeg and libx264 same if it's installed.(libx264 for the audio and ffmpeg for mp3)
Third you have done severals installations with severals methods and i think that you have some "remainders".
What can you do ? It's a good question.
Perhaps tried in virtualbox or tried another things. Do you use the medibuntu depot for ffmpeg (Penguin Liberation Front) ?
if not installed it and update your packets and tried again.
if not good you can all de-installed (openshot and his dependencies) same their are hided (see here for mlt : https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/480894 and .openshot in /home) and re-installed by the ppa (the last)
After, really i don't know. Good luck

[sk8dork (sk8dork)]

sigh, after looking around regarding this issue, i found a forum thread saying that ffmpeg and libfaac don't play nice in karmic, so i have to compile ffmpeg from source and enable it. i'm trying that now and will report back.

[sk8dork (sk8dork)]

first off: i'm doing this now on a netbook with karmic installed. i compiled and installed x264 and ffmpeg from source following this how-to:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095

now, i completely uninstalled openshot and mlt. i looked at the other bug report and i followed the advice there and there is no trace of mlt or openshot anywhere on my system. i did "sudo updatedb" and "locate openshot" and "locate mlt" and there are only listings for the apt repos and such (and stuff like htmltree)

now i can do the following command:
rgoebel@rgoebel-netbook:~$ ffmpeg -i 818_1448.MOV -acodec libfaac -ab 128k -ac 2 -vcodec libx264 -vpre hq -threads 0 output.mp4

with the following results:
FFmpeg version SVN-r20544, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  built on Nov 16 2009 18:17:50 with gcc 4.4.1
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab
  libavutil 50. 4. 0 / 50. 4. 0
  libavcodec 52.41. 0 / 52.41. 0
  libavformat 52.39. 2 / 52.39. 2
  libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
  libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 59.94 (60000/1001) -> 29.97 (30000/1001)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '818_1448.MOV':
  Duration: 00:06:06.63, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 4291 kb/s
    Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 4157 kb/s, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc
    Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 128 kb/s
  Metadata
    major_brand : qt
    minor_version : 0
    compatible_brands: qt
    comment : KODAK Zi8 Pocket Video Camera
    comment-eng : KODAK Zi8 Pocket Video Camera
[libx264 @ 0x98ba000]using SAR=1/1
[libx264 @ 0x98ba000]using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 Cache64
[libx264 @ 0x98ba000]profile High, level 3.1
Output #0, mp4, to 'output.mp4':
    Stream #0.0(eng): Video: libx264, yuv420p, 1280x720 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=10-51, 200 kb/s, 30k tbn, 29.97 tbc
    Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 128 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
  Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Press [q] to stop encoding
[h264 @ 0x98a2990]B picture before any references, skipping
[h264 @ 0x98a2990]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x98a2990]no frame!
Error while decoding stream #0.0
[h264 @ 0x98a2990]B picture before any references, skipping
[h264 @ 0x98a2990]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x98a2990]no frame!
Error while decoding stream #0.0
frame= 253 fps= 2 q=51.0 size= 279kB time=6.87 bitrate= 331.9kbits/s s/s

now i'm going to install openshot from synaptic, which should install mlt and everything else it needs.

drum roll...

rgoebel@rgoebel-netbook:~$ openshot --verbose
Added /usr/share/openshot to system path
--------------------------------
   OpenShot (version 0.9.53)
--------------------------------
/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 creat...

[sk8dork (sk8dork)]

as an update, i did the same things on the desktop and have the same result. it's hard for me to believe that anyone can use libfaac for audio, from what i've seen with people having issues with libfaac in karmic period. if i can use ffmpeg to convert the original video file to a file with x264 and libfaac, i don't think it's ffmpeg or x264 at all. something else must not be right.

[Olivier Girard (eolinwen)]

You have do the right things and it's work. Now the probleme seems to be another thing.
Have you tried to encode in cli and after with openshot another file in HD but this file doesn't come of your camera ?
And now a stupid question: Have you tried advanced export (it seems me that you use preset youtube-HD) ?
i note one thing that i can't understand on this resultes :
Press [q] to stop encoding
[h264 @ 0x98a2990]B picture before any references, skipping
[h264 @ 0x98a2990]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x98a2990]no frame!
Error while decoding stream #0.0
[h264 @ 0x98a2990]B picture before any references, skipping
[h264 @ 0x98a2990]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x98a2990]no frame!
Error while decoding stream #0.0
frame= 253 fps= 2 q=51.0 size= 279kB time=6.87 bitrate= 331.9kbits/s s/s

consumer_avformat.c: audio codec libfaac unrecognised - ignoring
consumer_avformat.c: Unable to encode audio - disabling audio output.
[mp4 @ 0xa2b79e0]track 1: codec frame size is not set
[h264 @ 0x9cffc00]B picture before any references, skipping
[h264 @ 0x9cffc00]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x9cffc00]no frame!
Floating point exception

Each time it appairs "no frame" Why ?

[sk8dork (sk8dork)]

i have no idea what it means when it says "no frame" but what i do know is that "no frame" is not causing the export to fail.

here is some more info about these videos: directly from the camera, the kodak zi8, it is a file in .MOV container, and the video codec is x264, and the audio codec is aac. i can even use ffmpeg to change the container to .mp4 and set the video and audio codecs to "copy" and it works fine.

i do use the advanced export features. in fact what works for me just fine is choosing Youtube-HD, switch to the advanced tab and change the video bitrate to 5MB/s and change the audio codec to libmp3lame and bitrate to 256. here is yet another video i successfully exported from openshot in this way: http://youtube.com/watch?v=frIemBdpU9k

i don't have any other video files to test this with, but if you could tell me where to get one online i'll gladly try. also, i don't know what cli commands you want me to try, but i will gladly try them if you tell me.

the main thing i don't understand is why i can "convert" the videos from my device to x264/libfaac with ffmpeg at the cli, but openshot won't do it. is it possible that openshot or mlt are calling the wrong command or operator or something for libfaac? openshot/mlt can't possibly be trying to use ffmpeg for libfaac if ffmpeg itself can do it just fine.

[Andy Finch (fincha)]

Marked as a duplicate of 457732, as it looks like the same x264 issue.