I am pleased to announce the PPA for OpenShot Video Editor (instructions below). We have been hard at work on this feature for a while, and it took a lot of effort for us to get to this point. But thanks to TJ (our packaging expert) and lots of hard work from everyone on our team, we finally got there.
What in the world is a PPA you ask? It is an acronym for Personal Package Archive. Here is how our friends at LaunchPad define it:
This is now the preferred way to install OpenShot for Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10. If you use an older version of Ubuntu, you will still have to use our .DEB installers. Also, I highly recommend uninstalling any existing version of OpenShot before you install via the PPA."Using a Personal Package Archive (PPA), you can distribute software and updates directly to Ubuntu users. Create your source package, upload it and Launchpad will build binaries and then host them in your own apt repository.
That means Ubuntu users can install your packages in just the same way they install standard Ubuntu packages and they'll automatically receive updates as and when you make them."
WARNING: Our PPA uses a special version of FFmpeg, which does not work with VLC & Totem, and a few other movie players. This is due to how we are packaging FFmpeg in our PPA. We are working to fix this, but if you install via the PPA, you will not be able to run VLC at this time.
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openshot.developers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openshot.developers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openshot.developers/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openshot.developers/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
It's important to mention that this PPA also contains the latest versions of the dependencies that OpenShot requires, such as FFmpeg, MLT, Frei0r, and x264. Every time we update OpenShot, you will be prompted to update to the newest version. It's a great way to test our latest features.Step 1: Copy the first line from the above list (Be sure to choose the correct version of Ubuntu). The line that start with "deb http://ppa..."
Step 2: On your Ubuntu computer, open System > Administration > Software Sources.
Step 3: Click the Third Party Software tab.
Step 4: Click the Add button.
Step 5: Paste the line you copied in step 1 and click the Add Source button.
Step 6: Now copy the second line from the above list and paste it in just as you did in steps 4 and 5.
When prompted, reload the software sources information. Don't worry if you see a warning about unverified software sources; we're going to fix that next.
Telling Ubuntu how to authenticate the PPA
Now Ubuntu knows about the PPA. It also needs to know how to check the software hasn't been tampered with since Launchpad built it.
Step 7: Open your terminal and enter:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keysB9BA26FAStep 8: Finally, tell Ubuntu to re-load the details of each software archive it knows about:
sudo apt-get updateStep 9: You're now ready to install OpenShot from the PPA! To install OpenShot, either use Synaptic and search for openshot (note: use the "search" button, not the "quick search"), or you can install it from the command line:
sudo apt-get install openshot
Please help us spread the word about OpenShot. The Linux world still doesn't know about OpenShot for the most part. By the way, if you post an article or blog entry about OpenShot, please let me know and I will try and collect up many of the URLs and share them with all of our readers!
September 30, 2009 2:15 AM
Awesome work guys and gals!
Between the PPA and effects, finally, it feels as if one of the many Linux video Editor projects is gaining not just traction, but *critical mass*.
This is the point where most people answer the question of "What app do you use to edit video on Linux" with ONE answer.
You all deserve to be really proud.
Now if we can just convince people not to go *too* crazy with those effects...
+1 OpenShot world domination
-1 Watchable films! lol.
Congrats again and *thankyou!*
September 30, 2009 2:33 AM
Hmmm...
package openshot-doc seems to be missing....
Other than that, it's looking excellent! Man, this project has come a long way since I first tried installing it!
September 30, 2009 2:48 AM
Thank you! Very good job!
I've written a post in Slice of Linux (spanish) to explain how to install it just using CLI.
September 30, 2009 2:57 AM
Great news but it isn't working for me.
I created Bug #439205 about this.
September 30, 2009 3:10 AM
as it says on the ppa page:
You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:openshot.developers/ppa to your system's Software Sources
this will ease the install as it will automatically add the repository AND the key to your sources.
September 30, 2009 3:11 AM
i forgot to say my previous comment about ppa works for Karmic only
September 30, 2009 5:12 AM
@BugsBane
openshot-doc isn't released yet.
September 30, 2009 7:27 AM
Keep on getting this error:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys B9BA26FA
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys B9BA26FA
gpg: requesting key B9BA26FA from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: keyserver timed out
gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error
September 30, 2009 8:24 AM
@lucian
There seems to be a fairly widespread problem with the Ubuntu keyserver at the moment (see bug #435193in Launchpad).
The only advice I can give is to keep trying.
September 30, 2009 10:34 AM
It doesn't start on Ubuntu 9.04:
http://lazza.pastebin.com/f167ca2bd
September 30, 2009 12:43 PM
@Lazza,
This bug has been reported and we are looking into it. You can follow along here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/439205
September 30, 2009 1:37 PM
If you have kdenlive installed, I recommend don't install OpenShot from PPA repositories and not update other packages from there. I did this and both do not work. OpenShot only shows "segmentation fault" while Kdenlive:
Application: Kdenlive (kdenlive), signal: Segmentation fault
[KCrash Handler]
#5 mlt_properties_fetch (this=0x0, name=0x63b079 "resize") at mlt_properties.c:348
#6 0x00007f42d7f4d93c in mlt_properties_set_int (this=0x0, name=0x63b079 "resize", value=0) at mlt_properties.c:738
#7 0x00007f42d7d3176c in Mlt::Properties::set () from /usr/lib/libmlt++.so.2
#8 0x000000000047e01d in _start ()
I tried to uninstall all packages referred to "mlt", ffmpeg, OpenShot and kdenlive, then only installing "OpenShot" but still getting the message "Segmentation fault" in OpenShot.
I have had to disable OpenShot repositories, purge all packages relating to ffmpeg. mlt, and OpenShot, then just install ffmpeg and kdenlive.
Sorry for not publishing it as a bug in launchpad, that I do not know if it's a compatibility problem with other packages, and also only I get "segmentation fault" in console. I do not think that helps much.
In Kubuntu 9.04 amd64, OpenShot 0.9.42
Bye.
September 30, 2009 1:57 PM
I also have some problems in kdenlive after installing openshot, the export to h264 is now all scrambled, probably some incompatibility with the x264 packages from openshot. But luckily no segfault for me.
September 30, 2009 2:23 PM
reverting back x264 package did the trick. Openshot still working
September 30, 2009 2:32 PM
I'm Anonymous #12. If you have kdenlive installed, I recomend OpenShot .deb packages instead use PPA repository.
September 30, 2009 4:06 PM
Adding the PPA and apt-get update/upgrade breaks VLC, for me at least. Now VLC can't play video, but audio still works.
September 30, 2009 6:59 PM
Just to share that i posted about this on my blog @
http://d0od.blogspot.com/2009/09/oepnshot-ppa-video-editor-linux.html
keep up the IMMENSE work guys!
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October 1, 2009 12:02 AM
UNfortunately, it does not start at all.
I first did a complete unstallation of everythin "openshot" including the 4 dependencies, because the PPA is said to "contain the latest versions of the dependencies that OpenShot requires,"
After installing, the dependencies are not back in synaptic, maybe that's why openshot does not start?
October 1, 2009 1:38 AM
My dearest beloved Anonymous,
The day might come when you have the courage to identify yourself, though I see no evidence of this as yet! :-(
With respect to your comment as follows:
"Anonymous
September 30, 2009 3:10 AM
as it says on the ppa page:
You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:openshot.developers/ppa to your system's Software Sources
this will ease the install as it will automatically add the repository AND the key to your sources."
The message on the PPA page is automatically generated by Launchpad according to a standard format.
The reason that it says that the packages are "unsupported" is that they are not supported yet by Ubuntu in the main Ubuntu distribution.
The reason that it says "untrusted" is that this is standard nomenclature for pgp keys, and refers to the fact that we have not got round to doing a formal "web-of-trust" excercise to counter sign each others keys yet because we have been too busy with the development of OpenShot to get round to some of the admin issues.
However all the members of the OpenShot team who have been working on this project can be easily identified from the information each publishes.
I would also like to add the request that you stop publishing your problems with using OpenShot, on this blog, and make your enquiries via our bug tracker or answer tracker. All the points you raise here concerning your use of OpenShot have been fully tested and confirmed to work properly when done by the testing team.
Your negative comments on these blogs are reminiscent of the comments we used to get from someone who used to call himself qwerty800 and who was finally identified as Holmes.
I am going to suggest to Jonathan that he does what I do on my blogs, and disallow anonymous comments.
Helen
October 1, 2009 1:50 AM
Yes, please use our "Support" link at the top of this page to report problems, errors, bugs, questions, or feature requests. It doesn't help anyone to post long errors and confusing configuration messages here.
Hopefully, I won't be forced to require logins for my comment system. I do appreciate reading everyone's thoughts, even those who would prefer be anonymous. But if people continue posting errors here, I guess it will force the issue. Thanks!
October 1, 2009 3:34 AM
sorry about the anonymous thing, but openID identification is not working on the comments form for some obscure reason, so out of frustration i just click on anonymous and get the job done. sorry for this (and i just took the time to read more carefully and from now on will click on Name/URL)
btw about the karmic ppa install, just time in the terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers
you'll get the repo and the keys added automatically. I guess there might be a way to have this CLI line to work from a line on the webpage without having to type it in the terminal and make openshot as easy as 1click install.
again, sorry for the confusion, your work rocks, I'm happy to finally have some decent nle on linux.
RIco (launchpad)
(anonymous #5,13,14)
October 1, 2009 8:04 AM
Thank you, makes it much easier to give this a try.
October 1, 2009 8:36 AM
I'm Anonymous#12, sorry for that.
But perhaps instead of being so worried that anonymous people reporting problems here, you should have taken care to warn that if you have installed other software that uses the same OpenShot dependencies (Kdenlive, VLC), when you upgrade from the PPA these applications may stop working. Only an opinion.
Excellent work and great progress.
October 1, 2009 9:07 AM
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
openshot: Depends: python-mlt but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
If i try to install python-mlt it will remove many applications like devede
October 1, 2009 1:33 PM
Today's libavcodec update didn't fix VLC.
October 2, 2009 10:32 AM
Thanks for the hard work.
Small suggestion: how about repackaging the dependencies to install ffmpeg, mlt and x264 in "/usr/lib/openshot" to avoid the conflicts reported above? You'd just need to add an "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/openshot" to the OpenShot starting script.
I think this is better than potentially breaking other applications.
October 3, 2009 8:03 AM
After Openshot installation with PPA I can't see divx with VLC and Kaffeine.
With VLC I can heard only sound but not the video.
How can I turn back?
October 3, 2009 12:45 PM
@NevidS Me neither. It's a problem with the patched libavcodec, I think. I guess you cannot have both OpenShot and VLC.
By the way, VLC shouldn't be able to play any video, not just divx videos. At least that's what happens for me.
October 3, 2009 1:52 PM
Hello Nevids and WindPower,
I haven't any divx videos to test his out with VLC,
However I have VLC running fully alongside OpenShot.
Helen
October 7, 2009 3:17 PM
Helen: I can easily provide you with a demo file that matches all the symptoms described above as I am facing them as well. I happen to have files that fit the problem description which are very small in size for convenience. My reading seems to indicate nothing can be done in the short term, but will easily be solved in the long term, so maybe there is no point, but you are welcome to my test files if you so wish. davros@access-cable.net Replace "access-cable" with "accesscable" in that email address to email me.
October 16, 2009 11:10 AM
I wrote a post in Italian about Openshot: http://andrealazzarotto.com/2009/10/02/openshot-raggiunge-gli-effetti-ed-ha-un-ppa-e-un-giorno-storico/