openshot crashes when I try to import any video clip

were you ever able to resolve this. This is happening to me as well. I selected option three also.

No. On top of that, I entered option 1 too, when I tried it again. Didn't work. It's clearly a problem with openshot. Since Kdenlive uses mlt and ffmpeg, and it works.

I'm getting that it's a segmentation fault.

Hi! At the end of the build wizard it has a list of tests you can run to see if everything was installed correctly. Can you please post the results of those tests?

Also, I would recommend using all 3 FFmpeg options, just to see if any of them work. When it compiles MLT, it needs to link to a version of FFmpeg, and that is always the issue with these seg faults. MLT fails to link (for some reason) and thus doesn't find FFmpeg, and then seg faults when OpenShot tries to use MLT.

OpenShot is using a different version of MLT than Kdenlive at the moment. This version of MLT is new, has a new namespace, new version, and isn't in the Ubuntu repositories yet. Thus... we have to build it.

I've tried to run the install different ways and the test gives me this:

Configuring MLT...
Configuring framework:
Configuring modules:
Configuring modules/avformat:
avformat: No build environment found.
          Try configuring mlt with --avformat-svn.
Configuring modules/core:
Configuring modules/dgraft:
Configuring modules/dv:
Configuring modules/effectv:
Configuring modules/feeds:
Configuring modules/frei0r:
Configuring modules/gtk2:
Configuring modules/jackrack:
Configuring modules/kdenlive:
Configuring modules/kino:
Configuring modules/lumas:
Configuring modules/melt:
Configuring modules/motion_est:
Configuring modules/normalize:
Configuring modules/oldfilm:
Configuring modules/plus:
Configuring modules/resample:
Configuring modules/sdl:
Configuring modules/vmfx:
Configuring modules/vorbis:
Configuring modules/xine:
Configuring modules/xml:
Configuring melt:
Configuring mlt++:
Configuring swig:
GPL License Used

I found this post regarding this issue http://tinyurl.com/lt8sqh but it doesn't seem to work for me.

Can you run this command and post the output:

$ ffmpeg -i

I'm interested to see what version of ffmpeg is installed.

FFmpeg version 0.5-svn17737+3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --extra-version=svn17737+3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6 --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-libdc1394 --disable-armv5te --disable-armv6 --disable-armv6t2 --disable-armvfp --disable-neon --disable-altivec --disable-vis --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 Apr 10 2009 23:18:41, gcc: 4.3.3
ffmpeg: missing argument for option '-i'

FFmpeg version 0.5-svn17737+3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --extra-version=svn17737+3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6 --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-libdc1394 --disable-armv5te --disable-armv6 --disable-armv6t2 --disable-armvfp --disable-neon --disable-altivec --disable-vis --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 Apr 10 2009 23:18:41, gcc: 4.3.3
ffmpeg: missing argument for option '-i'

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Hi, there is a new build wizard available now. It should fix the problem for you (hopefully). https://launchpad.net/openshot/+download

I tried it just now. It failed.

here's the error message it gave me. Is there any way for it not to keep reinstalling packages I already have? it seems kinda selfish for a program to keep reinstalling libraries I already have. it messes it up for other packages. Part of the reason I switched from windows to linux is because of the shared libraries. It's like the 3rd time I installed the latest ffmpeg, and my dvd authoring program failed bc of it. I've never had this problem with a .deb install.

here's the error message I got.

Selecting previously deselected package openshot-x264.
(Reading database ... 213722 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking openshot-x264 (from .../openshot-x264_0.67.1173-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /home/homy/x264/openshot-x264_0.67.1173-1_i386.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/local/bin/x264', which is also in package x264
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /home/homy/x264/openshot-x264_0.67.1173-1_i386.deb
(END)

anyways thanks for the help.

Hello Holmes (alias 66666er?)

You're problem is not a bug in OpenShot. On the contrary it is OpenShot behaving correctly.

The install wizard 1.06 installs the libraries as .deb packages targeted on /usr/local - this is to avoid conflicts with the main Ubuntu packages.

You happen to have installed another version of x264 in /usr/local. dpkg has correctly terminated the install rather than overwrite your installed library.

You will need to un-install your version of x264 before OpenShot will install fully.

ah thanks, it finally installed fully, but it still crashed when I tried importing a clip (mp4). i keyed in option one on the ffmpeg prompt, which it said was the recommended one.

Try option 3 to get high definition clips used especially AVCHD

Hi All,
I am having segmentation fault as well as I importing any video file.
Hope to hear any suggestion here.

After re-run the wizard with option 3 on ffmpeg, I can import the files successfully.

Hello Tien,

Please will you let us know the following information:

1) Which version of the Install wizard you are using?

2) which version of OpenShot you have installed?

3) what is your operating system name and version (eg Ubuntu 9.04)?

4) are you using a 32bit or 64 bit version of the operating system?

5) what were the file types of the videos you tried initially to import?

6) what file types have you tried since selecting option 3 for ffmpeg?

7) are you happy now, or do you need this reported as a bug?

Best wishes, Helen McCall