PiTiVi

2011/7/24 Geffers <xray850@...>:
> I am new to pitivi so this is baulking me immediately.
>
> I have some video files saved from a video recorder that have a TS
> extension.
>
> VLC plays fine with no problems, Movie Player states software to play file
> is missing, if I cancel the option to search for a plugin it then plays it
> fine anyway.
>
> pitivi tells me 'an error occured while importing'.
>
> This appears to be a codec problem, there are so many gstreamer plug ins
> available and most appear to be installed on my ubuntu system.
>
> Is there anything else I can try.
>

Can you play this file in Totem (the video player)?

Luis

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I am under the impression that PiTiVi simply does not support MPEG-TS
files because it requires seeking, and mpegtsdemux does not (yet?) support
seeking.  This includes the AVCHD files produced by most popular
camcorders today.

--Ben

AFAIK the latest changes in MPEG-TS in GStreamer make it so you can
seek. But I could be wrong.

Which version of the gstreamer plugins are you using? Distro packaged or git?
You can try update and then play the file in Totem (which also uses
GST) to check if you can playback and seek.

Luis

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar@...> wrote:
> I am under the impression that PiTiVi simply does not support MPEG-TS
> files because it requires seeking, and mpegtsdemux does not (yet?) support
> seeking.  This includes the AVCHD files produced by most popular
> camcorders today.
>
> --Ben
>
>

At least, last time I tried not long ago, mpeg-ts still didn't work
properly, so I documented this in
http://www.pitivi.org/manual/importingmpegts.html