Pitivi won't render in 12.04

Question

I've recently upgraded 11.10 to 12.04 and then reinstalled Pitivi and Gstreamer codecs ecxept the extra codecs and regardless of which container,vid codec or aud codec the rendering bar wouldn't move any help would be helpful, and if your wondering if it used to work in 11.10 it only work in the first few tries before it also stopped rendering.

P.S: I'm still a nooby.

Solution 1

The version 0.15.1 installed via the repository has this problem, but do these steps will solve (by compiling 0.15.2):

Open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and enter these commands (after each line typed below press "Enter"):

sudo apt-get build-dep pitivi
wget -c http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pitivi/0.15/pitivi-0.15.2.tar.xz
tar Jxvf pitivi-0.15.2.tar.xz
cd pitivi-0.15.2/
./configure && make && sudo make install

Solution 2

My problem with pitivi was that it did not show any progress in the render dialog and just kept raising the 'estimated time' to finish rendering.

After the guys on #pitivi asked me what container/codecs I used, I switched the video codec from "Dirac" to "Theora" and I could render my video. I had the Ogg container, Theora for video, and Vorbis for audio.

I'm not sure right now what version of pitivi comes with 12.04, but I did install 0.15.2 from the sources at the end. Maybe you did the same (installing 0.15.2) but didn't try some other video codec instead of Dirac?

Solution 3

This bug was reported on 2011-12-10

Bug 665902 - Render never completes because of a not-linked element

See : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665902

Comments

[thomasrutter]

Do the same videos play in other tools (particularly totem, the built-in video player)? Also, which particular gstreamer codec packages did you install? Do you have everything in ubuntu-restricted-extras?

[thomasrutter]

pitivi is still in Ubuntu main so it's still fully supported. It's just no longer installed by default or included on the Live CD. It hasn't been replaced by another video editor.

[Dominic Jordan Hasford]

Yes it is still supported, but it still has a rough track history which played in the decision toto remove it. I'm not saying its bad, but maybe another editor might do better for you.

[Felix]

Ok i have installed both opeshot and Kdenlive, firstly openshot crashes before it can even fully load and kdenlive is complaining of not being compatible with most of the gstreamer codecs, so anyone else......please:(

[Dustin Kirkland]

This didn't work for me, unfortunately :-(

[Dominic Jordan Hasford]

iloveubuntu.net/kdenlive-092-released-bug-fixes-ppa-availabl‌​e

[Felix]

OK, not only did it not work, but now i can't even edit the video even after a restart, whyyy :'(

[Felix]

OK, Openshots now working, but now its also not compatible with most of my Gstreamer codecs, but at least i can edit and render my vids at 720 or 1080p on ogg, still prefer Pitivi though :(