Comment 20 for bug 707239

I have just pressed the 'report a problem' button, so all the detailed system data should be uploaded; even though the original install was from a fairly old Ubuntu distro, it was recently upgraded with the Ubuntu 'auto-update' to 11.10 that was recently pushed out (reading the Wikipedia entry on Pitivi, I am wondering if that is what has broken it.. did not try with the earlier version, and cannot go back..).

I have a ~13MByte .AVI file generated by a Casio camera, and all I am trying to do is cut off the last few seconds of footage.

Rendering to avi after moving the end time only seems to happen 'very quick', system appears to hang with the '1 second left' box, but top does not show any excessive CPU usage anywhere; output file name is created but of 0 size (about 24% of the hdd is used).

Hit cancel.

Try again, with the above 'work-around' of moving the start time in a few seconds; this time, the rendering takes a LOT longer (you see the video in slo mo in the right pane); note that it takes some time to 'skip over' the first few seconds that I have tried to delete by moving start time; and completes, writing an output file that is a few MBytes smaller than the original.

BUT .. trying to play the result (using Movieplayer that is I think the default in this distro), I do not get what I expect... (guess I need to file a different bug for that, after I have made sure I am driving pitivi correctly); simply said, you get a few seconds of 'nothing' (black screen, no audio), then some audio & a 'frozen frame'; then a few more 'almost disjoint' frames that do not end where I placed the end point.

I will have a go at collecting the debug logs as described above, and trying the git version of Pitivi; but since nothing has happened on this thread for some time, nor the gnome bug, I am wondering what the best way forward is...