Almost no video editing capabilities at all. Frustrating and wasted morning.

[oshunluvr]

Wow, what a wasted morning. Mplayer2 will not play 99% of files here:

MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: demux_open- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
  Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
  disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
  It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
  gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
  DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
  won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

I've tried every video output format - all produce the same results. Mplayer2 not working means Devede doesn't work either. Then, using Devede on a file that will open with mplayer2 (rare, but found one), Devede crashes when you try to select a place to save the iso. This bug is supposedly fixed in the latest update - which we don't have because our updates trail Debian too far behind. Tried Lives to make the video - no better - it crashes too.

LiVES 2.2.0
Copyright 2002-2013 Gabriel Finch () and others.
LiVES comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details.


LiVES info: Invalid effect farneback_analyserfarneback_analysersalsaman1 found in compound effect image_stabilizer, line 4


LiVES info: Invalid effect farneback_analyserfarneback_analysersalsaman1 found in compound effect motion_analyser, line 4


avformat detected format: mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2
/usr/lib/lives/lives-exe: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib//lives/plugins/decoders/zzavformat_decoder.so: undefined symbol: av_find_stream_info

OpenShot is no better:

on_mnuImportFiles_activate called with self.GtkImageMenuItem[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x24f6920] multiple edit list entries, a/v desync might occur, patch welcome
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x24f6920] multiple edit list entries, a/v desync might occur, patch welcome
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x24f6920] multiple edit list entries, a/v desync might occur, patch welcome
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Looks like I upgraded to 14.04 too soon. Too many bugs to report - I have a life after all.

I guess I'll downgrade and wait it out.

EDIT: Forgot to mention "eject -T /dev/sr0" doesn't work either. Not a video issue per se but still annoying when I'm trying to make DVDs. This edit added from 13.10 while burning a DVD made with Devede.

[Feathers McGraw]

Is there anything about your system that is particularly unusual, or is that a bug for the whole program?

Don't these packages get tested automatically before they're released? :s

[oshunluvr]

Is there anything about your system that is particularly unusual, or is that a bug for the whole program?

Don't these packages get tested automatically before they're released? :s

You would think, right? There's nothing obviously in common - the errors seems unrelated. I tried numerous files and types, etc. All these worked in 13.10.

[Feathers McGraw]

It's a different package though, right?

[GreyGeek]

I tried to create a video DVD last week. Creating video DVDs seems to have suffered a regression. It used to be easy to do using Devde. Dvd+rw+tools, videotrans, dvdauthor, KDELiven and even tried to twist VLC to do it. No Joy.

On the good side besides SimpleScreenRecorder, RecordItNow and Vokoscreen, Claydoh clued me in on a new open source desktop recorder that works great: ScreenStudio-1.0.1.
A YouTube discussion of it:

and the jar file for Ubuntu 14.04 can be downloaded from here:
http://screenstudio.crombz.com/

Besides creating an *.flv file for uploading to YouTube it allows easy screen casting to Twitch (and others later).

[Gavin77]

To the OP, I had the same problem yesterday after installing VLC from the stable PPA. It uses a newer version of libavformat that was incompatible with the version of mplayer I had so SMPlayer was crashing. After purging it and using the files from the regular repos it all works again.

[NickStone]

Have you tried kdenlive, I think this is one of the best video editors and dvd authors within Linux.

[oshunluvr]

VLC works OK here - but I'm using the dev. version from a special PPA, not the in-house one. At least I can see I'm not alone so it's system issues - not a bone-headed move on my part.

I kept my 13.10 install, so I was able to boot into that and use Devede without problem there.

Re. the eject issue - I haven't figured it out yet but it works part of the time. Basically, I made a menu entry that opens/closes the dvd tray and put it in my desktop panel. Because my PC is a stretch away from my chair, it allows me to have the tray open or close without having to strain for the button. I get an "ioctl: Input/output error" sometimes. Weird.

"

[oshunluvr]

Stretch or not, you need to take the cup out before closing the tray

Yeah - nothing more frustrating than having the morning jolt jammed and out of reach...lol!

On topic: I also discovered that's there's a libdvdnav bug (reported already) too. VLC won't play some DVDs with menus - it just crashes. Basically, my computer is no longer usable for almost any video/DVD functions. Wow, what a disaster. I think closing Medibuntu was a bad idea.

[Feathers McGraw]

I think closing Medibuntu was a bad idea.

Didn't the maintainer spend ages trying to find someone to take over?

[oshunluvr]

Didn't the maintainer spend ages trying to find someone to take over?

I don't really know - just complaining mostly. Seems suspicious that all this happens on the eve of the transition away from a dedicated repository, but I doubt that's actually the cause.

[Feathers McGraw]

The last few times I've been there (months ago) the site had a "looking for a new maintainer" banner splashed across the top. I don't think it closed for lack of use, nobody stepped up is all (and most /all of the packages are available elsewhere).

Shame to see it gone, I found it useful when I was new to Linux.

[SteveRiley]

The replacement of FFmpeg with LibAV happened many cycles ago. I don't think that's the problem Oshun is having.

What if you install all of libav-tools and then used avplay at the command line to try to open one of the files. What's the output?

[oshunluvr]

avplay plays the file, like some others, but Devede depends on mplayer2 to create it's DVD isos.

avplay:

stuart@office:~/Projects/cleatsandcleavage$ avplay "Cleats & Cleavage - Large 2.mp4" ffplay version 2.2.git-d53e87a Copyright (c) 2003-2014 the FFmpeg developers
  built on May  7 2014 12:32:41 with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
  configuration: --extra-libs=-ldl --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg --enable-avresample --disable-debug --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab --enable-libpulse --enable-libx264 --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libvorbis --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libvpx --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libspeex --enable-libass --enable-avisynth --enable-libsoxr
  libavutil      52. 81.100 / 52. 81.100
  libavcodec     55. 60.103 / 55. 60.103
  libavformat    55. 37.102 / 55. 37.102
  libavdevice    55. 13.101 / 55. 13.101
  libavfilter     4.  5.100 /  4.  5.100
  libavresample   1.  2.  0 /  1.  2.  0
  libswscale      2.  6.100 /  2.  6.100
  libswresample   0. 18.100 /  0. 18.100
  libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'Cleats & Cleavage - Large 2.mp4':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : M4VH
    minor_version   : 1
    compatible_brands: M4VHM4A mp42isom
    creation_time   : 2014-04-17 03:50:19
  Duration: 00:05:15.42, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 2997 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 960x540, 2863 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 2997 tbn, 5994 tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2014-04-17 03:50:19
      handler_name    : Apple Video Media Handler
    Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 127 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2014-04-17 03:50:19
      handler_name    : Apple Sound Media Handler
   4.79 A-V: -0.019 fd=   3 aq=    4KB vq=   36KB sq=    0B f=0/0

mplayer:

stuart@office:~/Projects/cleatsandcleavage$ mplayer "Cleats & Cleavage - Large 2.mp4" 
MPlayer2 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2ubuntu2 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
Cannot open file '/home/stuart/.mplayer/input.conf': No such file or directory
Failed to open /home/stuart/.mplayer/input.conf.


Playing Cleats & Cleavage - Large 2.mp4.
Detected file format: QuickTime / MOV (libavformat)




MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: demux_open
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
  Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
  disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
  It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
  gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
  DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
  won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

[oshunluvr]

The file is a season long slide show made by a friend of her softball team. I think she made it on her school Mac but she's unable to make DVDs for some reason - which she wants to give to her team mates.