Round the houses, Linux video editing
Since I've upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04, I figured this would be a good time to play with video editing, which is something I've been wanting to play with for a while. I suspect that video editing could be a killer app for Linux, and there are a few packages to chose from. Kdenlive looked to be the most feature rich, but I'm afraid I found it buggy and prone to crashing, so I settled on OpenShot, which has a clean, simple interface and didn't crash on me once.
Here's the video I put together:
If you know the answer, please don't post it straight away – to give others a chance to figure it out…
No audio in Flash on Ubuntu 10.04
Upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 went remarkably smoothly, with the exception that audio in Flash was erratic. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Since I use my PC as an entertainment system, this was pretty much a deal-breaker.
Googling for it got me no where. Apparently “no audio in flash” is the Ubuntu equivalent of “i have a headache” – it's a vague symptom that has multiple possible causes. Long story short, the problem was that I had both Flash 9 and Flash 10 installed. Firefox appeared to pick one at random (as far as I could tell), but audio only worked with 10. The solution was to delete Flash 9 – which I couldn't do from the package manager, because it turned out I had Flash 9 installed locally.
If this sounds familiar, type about:plugins in to the Firefox address bar. If you see two entries for Flash, then give the following a try:
rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
This is probably the result of some tinkering I did before upgrading to 10.04. I doubt this will be a problem with a fresh install.
