Thanks for the information Clint v14 is now working, and and at far greater speed than before.
I'll post the video thumbnail probs under such a title, for all to see. Thanks again Mark On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 12:48 -0700, Clint Rogers wrote: > Good afternoon Mark, > > > It sounds like you may have been bitten by > http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/6618, and we apologize for this. > Fortunately, there's a workaround: > 1) Add the following PPA to your system: > https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa (this page contains > instructions on how to do this if you're unfamiliar) > > 2) Remove, then reinstall Shotwell (this should grab the PPA version, > which should, in turn, pull in the required version of libgexiv2) > > > As for the video problem, when you say 'failing to display', do you > mean that Shotwell couldn't create thumbnails for them, or that they > wouldn't play when double-clicked? > > Thumbnails not working may indicate that your system doesn't have > GStreamer plugins for those formats - do you get thumbnails for the > affected video files in your file manager? If you're simply not seeing > thumbnails, it's likely a missing codec, and installing something like > gst-plugins-bad1.0 would help. > > If videos won't play when double-clicked, though, it may be that > Shotwell is having trouble launching an external media player. When > you try to open one of the affected videos from the file manager, what > happens? > > > Please let us know. > > Cheers, > -c > > > > On 9 May 2013 07:43, Mark Sheriff <[email protected]> wrote: > I since decided to remove shotwell thru software center. > I then re-installed, but no joy. > Typing shotwell in terminal still produces this: shotwell: > error while > loading shared libraries: libgexiv2.so.2: cannot open shared > object > file: No such file or directory > > > > On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 16:14 +0200, Mark Sheriff wrote: > > Upgrade problems 12 to 14 ubuntu > > > > Shotwell was failing to display videos (mp4 and ASF), even > though they > > had been imported, and placed in the correct folder. > > So I checked the Yorba site and discovered, my version was > out of date. > > > > I entered the following 3 commands: > > > > $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa > > $ sudo apt-get update > > $ sudo apt-get install shotwell > > > > Note I didn't remove the earlier version, cos the Yorba site > did not > > instruct me to do do so. > > > > Result: > > > > Clicking the shotwell icon does not launch the app. > > Typing shotwell, or./shotwell in terminal doesn't work. > > > > I ran $ sudo apt-get install shotwell again..... terminal > reported: > > shotwell is already the newest version > > > > Tried launching from dash, but this doesn't work. > > Loaded software centre, and this informs me shotwell is > installed, > > offering the option to remove it. > > > > tried inserting an SD card with pics, to get the 'load > shotwell' > > command. > > Clicked the command but only got a lot of hard disk activity > for a > > period. > > > > What is my best course of action? > > > > What, if any, changes should be made to the install > instructions, to > > ensure this does not happen to future users? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Shotwell mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > > > > > -- > --------------------------- > "I don't know what (b² - 4ac) equals, and I don't care," Tom said > indiscriminately. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
