[Shotwell] Problem importing videos

[Adam Dingle]

Horst,

On 01/20/2011 12:57 PM, stone keeper wrote:
> hi Jim
> the import does not pause on the same video each time. I guess it has
> something to do with quantity of photos and/or videos.
>
>
> i just tested the following:
>
> a) started shotwell with loglevel=1
>
> b) importet ALL avi videofiles (about 250) without any problems (only avi
> videos)
>
> c) tried to import only mpg (about 300)  files and after some videos import
> stops,
>
> I have attached the logfile hopefully you will find anything in it ;-) In
> fact i can not identify the video that stops the import process. All
> mentioned files in the log seems to be imported, even the last video visible
> on importscreen (mov07858.mpg)
>
> A little bit confusing: after importing all avi video files a lot of events
> are doubled (e.g. shotwell displays event "Die 3.Aug,2010" four times!) -
> maybe some metadata information is wrong here.
>
> best regards
> Horst
>
> ps: how can i send you the log file - it seems that my last email was
> blocked because of the attached zip?

You can do either of the following:

1. Upload it to a file-sharing service, then post the URL here.
2. Email the log file to the Shotwell team at shotwell at yorba.org.

We'll look at the log file and see whether it yields any clues.

adam