Ardour and harvid opening video fails

Installation & Configuration Linux
#1

I’m guessing this is a set up or incompatibility issue.

The system and software:
Ardour 6.9-5
ffmpeg 2:5.0-4
harvid 0.8.3-3
Manjaro 21.2.4
Xjadeo 0.8.10-4

When I attempt to open a video I get this warning in the Ardour log:

Parsing video file info failed. Is the Video Server running? Is the file readable by the Video Server? Does the docroot match? Is it a video file?

If I open the harvid server in a browser window the file I selected is shown and it’s info is accessible. (I’ve not found a way to determine if harvid can respond to play it or how to test if harvid is actually working.)

It appears I need to start harvid from a terminal window. Maybe a clue?

Do I have a mismatch of software?

#2

Your version of ffmpeg is too new and not [yet] supported.

see also Can't import/play videos (anymore) - #2 by x42

#3

Thanks!

I was afraid that was going to be the answer.

Arch/Manjaro strikes again.

I have yet to figure out how to back something like that out of Manjaro…

Oh well.

#4

Chances are that upcoming Ardour 7.x will be compatible with ffmpeg 5.0.
You can meanwhile just use the video tools provided by ardour.org.

Easiest by running the video-tools install script as show in the manual. Or alternately by manually exacting http://ardour.org/files/video-tools/harvid-x86_64-linux-gnu-v0.8.3.tgz and copying ffprobe_harvid to $HOME/bin or /usr/local/bin.

#5

Hmm…Yesterday I did try the “sh -c “$(curl -s -L http://git.io/tVUCkw)”” and it failed, sorry, I forget the error.

After reading your last post I attempted to put ffprobe_harvid into $HOME/bin, but the home bin directory did not exist, so I put it in /usr/local/bin. Ardour got the same errors as before.

So, I ran install_video_tools.sh. That worked once I figured out that it wanted /usr/bin as an argument.

Then Ardour seems to find a open the video and display it. But, it doesn’t seem to extract the audio. Not sure if that is a set up issue…

#6

If was a frame rate issue with the sample I was testing with…

Looks like it’s actually work!

Thanks again!!

#7

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