Openshot-qt: Samsung 7 Recorded Videos Won't Play

[jkreski]

System Details:

• Operating System / Distro: ? Windows 10 Tower PC, was fine untill recently
• OpenShot Version: ? 2.4.1
• _Please attach log files if crash_

Issue Description and steps to reproduce:

The video is an MP4 video as recorded on my cell phone camera. Wondering - is it the wrong type?
The program has become very slow to start. I can import the video. I can drag and drop it onto the track - Track 4 is on top and so I just use that one. I have played around with the Profiles and have selected the Mobile on assuming it would be the least resource intense and OK for debugging. The opening frame shows-up on the Video Preview. However, now, pressing PLAY does not play the video - or if it does it takes quite some time for the video to play. Quality seems otherwise fine. I also noted in VLC Media Player that I needed to select SLOWER for the videos to render correctly.

My application is personal videos to be distributed to family and to upload to social media like YouTube, Facebook, etc.. I had done several using old videos from a large VCR tape sized cam corder - the original ones - and were transferred to CD. From there I was able to edit them here and distribute. No music, etc.. No copyright issues, actually.

How can I start to de-bug this issue?

[rkg2137]

I'm having the same issue with video from my Parrot Bebop 2 drone as well 1080p at 30fps.

I used a software called handbrake (free) and converted one of my video clips from the above format to 720p and 30fps and it worked fine however; the video file size went from 88MB down to 7MB and has lost a great deal of its quality.

[peanutbutterandcrackers]

@DylanC - I have seen a lot of these issues here and it seems that for some reason, these issues only happen on Windows PC... I am using Linux (Elementary OS 0.4.1 'Loki' - to be precise) and it works perfectly fine...

[DylanC]

@peanutbutterandcrackers - Yes, stuff like this happens lots on Windows. Running just fine for me on Ubuntu 17.10. I guess testing more with 1080p on Windows should produce some results to investigate.

[peanutbutterandcrackers]

@DylanC - I'm more concerned about producing more volunteer programmers for OpenShot, though. To fix the said results. 😄

[DylanC]

@peanutbutterandcrackers - Yes, that would be much better! :D

[N3WWN]

@rkg2137 HandBrake has different profiles which dramatically affect the output quality. I have used HandBrake in the past to convert video so that is able to be opened (or more easily edited) in various video editors without a loss in quality by selecting the appropriate profile.

[DylanC]

@jkreski - Do you have a sample video you can provide us?