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Release 2.3.1 of the QT-based video editor brings various improvements such as a new transform tool, new preview window, and the return of the razor tool as well as various bug fixes and performance improvements. More on this release can be found in this release announcement.
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OpenShot 2.3 Released on March 31st
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(Score: 2) by ledow on Monday April 03 2017, @09:04AM (7 children)
Installed it.
Inserted an MP4.
Pressed play on the preview.
10 seconds in it crashed with no useful error, and took out the entire program.
Is video-processing really that difficult that we still get this in VLC, OpenShot, etc.?
Even if the video file is damaged in some way (it's not), why aren't such things handled gracefully? I could have lost hours of work like that.
I'd kill for a decent player / editor on Windows that just works, it doesn't need to be anywhere near fancy. But all the open-source stuff has exactly this problem, and has had for years.
For reference, the machine works for everything else you ever ask it to do, it's the main workstation in an IT office.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 03 2017, @09:44AM
Commercial stuff like Sony Vegas is unstable trash too that can't even handle common codecs. The only video editor I've not hard crash in arbitrary ways yet is vdub (which is very limited in what it can do and windows-only) and kdenlive (linux-only). I prefer to do my video editing with avisynth scripts but that's not for everyone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 03 2017, @09:46AM
As for a decent video *player* on windows, the only real choice here is MPC-HC (combined with MadVR of ffdshow if more output options are desired). Used it for many years and never had it not play something or misbehave in other ways.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 03 2017, @10:23AM
Try shotcut or lightworks. Also an mp4 container doesn't really tell us anything about the codecs, we can guess the video codec is h264 long gop [pcmag.com] which isn't ideal for editing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 03 2017, @10:38AM
try it on linux? I never used it much but it wasnt that bad.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Burz on Monday April 03 2017, @02:01PM
KDEn Live works great for me. I've been using it on Linux.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday April 04 2017, @03:36PM
Yeah, OpenShot *usually* works alright for me, but I've honestly never seen a video editor that didn't crash at least occasionally when giving it some random codec (Just the mp4 extension doesn't mean much, could be damn near anything in there.) Of course that doesn't include high cost professional solutions (don't do enough video editing to have ever tried one), but it doesn't just include open source stuff either. From Windows Movie Maker crashing when fed a .wmv that it exported itself to Arcsoft dying on a video file from the very camera that included the ArcSoft software in the box, somehow the editors all seem to have that problem.
Surprised that you mention VLC though. I've never seen VLC crash, I've never seen a video file that it couldn't play (assuming some other player could and it wasn't just corrupted.) When someone says "Hey I can't get this video file to play" my only response is "Try VLC" -- I've never needed to say any more (other than providing a URL perhaps.)
If you're running Linux and it's available in your repos, try running mediainfo on that file to see what codecs it's actually using. I'd be interested in seeing what kind of file is capable of killing the mighty VLC! ;)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @07:55PM
Avidemux is a great editor. Handles many video formats including Blu-ray and 4k video. It will occasionally bomb (although I've never had it bomb on Linux, just windows occasionally). Doesn't have transitions like some editors and doesn't have a timeline format like MOST editors, but it is GREAT for simple editors on almost any video.
I usually do my audio edits in audacity, including the 6 or more track stuff. Use MKVtoolguiNix for joining audio and video back together (including AC3, AAC, etc.).
VLC, smplayer, and MPC-HC for playbacks. First two for over a decade. Latter just recently to get better picture/upscaling on 4k screen.