Openshot-qt: Can't open project from 1.4.3

[abject]

I recently upgrade OpenShot from 1.4.3 to 2.0.7 and I can't open my projects file.

I get the following error message:

Failed to load project file /path/to/my/projects.osp: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

It seems to have a problem with the file decoding.

There is already a bug open in Launchpad about this error: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/1568511

[mosteo]

I'm hitting this problem too, but in addition I cannot see any character in the project file that couldn't be encoded with plain ascii?

[PostPollux]

It's exactly the same here!
Failed to load project file /run/media/johannesw/SAMSUNG/trailer01.osp: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

I really don't see any character in the path, that couldn't be encoded in ascii. Any Ideas? I'm using OpenShot V 2.1.0

[xintrea]

Same problem. Cant open project from 1.4.3 in OpenShot 2.1.0.

Error:

Failed to load project file /media/wd_2000_part_1/filecollection/Video/MyTetraVideo/2016-10-15/montage/MyTetra v.1.42 Обзор 54 2x.osp: 
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

In console output:

   json_data:ERROR Couldn't load project data file: 
            'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 597: ordinal not in range(128)
project_data:ERROR Failed to load project file /media/wd_2000_part_1/filecollection/Video/MyTetraVideo/2016-10-15/montage/MyTetra v.1.42 Обзор 54 2x.osp: 
            'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
 main_window:ERROR Couldn't open project /media/wd_2000_part_1/filecollection/Video/MyTetraVideo/2016-10-15/montage/MyTetra v.1.42 Обзор 54 2x.osp

I try convert *.osp file from x-esc-entities to real UTF-8 in S (string?) tag. Result difference for this files:

$ diff before.osp after.osp 
51c51
< S'\xd0\x9f\xd0\xbe\xd1\x81\xd0\xbb\xd0\xb5\xd0\xb4\xd0\xbe\xd0\xb2\xd0\xb0\xd1\x82\xd0\xb5\xd0\xbb\xd1\x8c\xd0\xbd\xd0\xbe\xd1\x81\xd1\x82\xd1\x8c \xd0\xbf\xd0\xbe-\xd1\x83\xd0\xbc\xd0\xbe\xd0\xbb\xd1\x87\xd0\xb0\xd0\xbd\xd0\xb8\xd1\x8e 1'
---
> S'Последовательность по-умолчанию 1'
301c301
< S'\xd0\x97\xd0\xb2\xd1\x83\xd0\xba\xd0\xbe\xd0\xb2\xd1\x8b\xd0\xb5 \xd1\x8d\xd1\x84\xd1\x84\xd0\xb5\xd0\xba\xd1\x82\xd1\x8b'
---
> S'Звуковые эффекты'
... etc ...

But error already show.

[xintrea]

Nota bene:

Watch look on console output: In json_data we have position 597. In project_data we have position 0.

[yohanboniface]

Same issue here. Any known workaround?

[tom4tom]

Same here, with my project (on Ubuntu 16.04 an WIN10):
osp: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

[jreynojustin]

The OSP file format changed significantly from V1 to V2. The old format is not supported unfortunately. We may add an import integration depending on feature demand.

[yohanboniface]

I'm interested in such import, or at least any information that can help me migrate my project (even by scripting on my side or such). Thanks!

[jreynojustin]

@jonoomph Thoughts on this?

[yohanboniface]

Any chance to hints on how to do that by scripting myself?