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Ubuntu 10.10 - Having difficulty exporting 3gp to other formats.

Asked by Dave Gronbach

I've made several attempts to export a 3gp video recorded with my Verizon HTC Thunderbolt to other formats. No matter what I try, simple or advanced, as soon as I press export, the export video window greys out, the app hangs, and it will remain this way indefinitely. I've left it for 24 hours with no change.

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Olivier Girard (eolinwen) said : 		#1

Hi,
You should sue the version of ffmpeg of the Medibuntu repository.

See here howto do that : http://openshotusers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1053

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Dave Gronbach (dgronbach) said : 		#2

This command did not work on my system:
##Depot Medibuntu
    deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ oneiric free non-free

This command worked:
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

This command worked:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

The problem persists. I still can't export 3gp files to anything else.

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Olivier Girard (eolinwen) said : 		#3

3gp is not included in the default version of ffmpeg in Ubuntu for licencing reasons (it is right too for mp3 and H264) . So you must use the version of the Medibunut repository.
Here a post how to install this version : http://openshotusers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1053 with the good librairies.

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Dave Gronbach (dgronbach) said : 		#4

Cenwen:

I appreciate your help. I followed the instructions in the link above the first time, and they did not work on my system running ubuntu 10.10. Please re-read my remarks above, where I explained what I did, and what did not work.

I did a little investigation and found that Medibuntu is not enabled by default. I followed these instructions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu#Adding%20the%20Repositories

I executed the following commands:

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

sudo apt-get --yes install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu

sudo apt-get install w64codecs

After rebooting (bad windows habit) I executed openshot and I am still unable to export.

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Dave Gronbach (dgronbach) said : 		#5

I solved my own problem. As it turns out, the issue had nothing to do with the codec. Before an export could be completed, the 3gp file first had to be dragged onto a track.

After dragging the file to a track, the export completed successfully. The problem, therefore was that I wasn't properly using the software.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Dave