Video Stamp · early access

Video Stamp for Chromebook

The same Video Stamp, running on your Chromebook through ChromeOS’s built-in Linux. The free trial is the full app; every video it produces carries a “TRIAL” watermark until you add a license.

Download for Chromebook

Most Chromebooks use an Intel or AMD processor; some use an ARM processor (MediaTek or Qualcomm). The button picks the right one for your Chromebook when it can.

Download Video Stamp (trial)

Intel / AMD: videostamp_1.2.1_amd64.deb
ARM: videostamp_1.2.1_arm64.deb

Not sure which you have? Open Settings → About ChromeOS → Diagnostics: the CPU name says Intel, AMD, MediaTek or Qualcomm. If installing says the package is for the wrong architecture, use the other file.

What you need

A Chromebook with Linux development environment available (most personal Chromebooks; some school or work Chromebooks have it switched off by the administrator)
About 400 MB of free space in Linux, plus room for your stamped copies
No internet connection needed to stamp

Chromebooks encode video more slowly than most Windows PCs, so long or 4K clips take longer to stamp.

Installing

Turn on Linux (once): open Settings → About ChromeOS → Developers, and next to Linux development environment choose Set up. Follow the prompts; it takes a few minutes.
Download Video Stamp with the button above. It lands in your Downloads folder.
Install it: open the Files app, double-click the .deb file, and choose Install.
Start Video Stamp from the Launcher (look in the Linux apps folder). The first time it starts, it asks to download the free OpenH264 video codec directly from Cisco (about 1 MB, needs an internet connection once). After that it works offline.
Let it see your videos: Linux apps can only open files in Linux files and in folders you share. In the Files app, right-click the folder that holds your videos (for example Downloads) and choose Share with Linux. It then appears in Video Stamp’s file browser under /mnt/chromeos. Stamped copies are saved next to the original unless you choose another folder.

Optional: check the download. Drag the .deb file into Linux files in the Files app, open the Terminal app, run sha256sum videostamp_*.deb and compare the result with:
Intel / AMD: 4d1852b88e6eccfec980ed9237d021a66af0142e6a1d1de5b495f19e7048948c
ARM: c875e4b7a827b1aef0fc2d78862496af780095860fde0697bbae6a3a2ae38be8

To uninstall, right-click Video Stamp in the Launcher and choose Uninstall. Your videos and stamped copies are not affected.

Activating your license

Licenses work the same as on Windows: each covers the number of computers you bought, and your Chromebook counts as one. Click Enter License, then choose the .vslic file from your license email (save it to a shared folder first) or paste the license text.

Updates

Video Stamp checks for a new version when it starts. When there is one, it offers to open this page so you can download and install the new version the same way.

OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc. You can turn it off or on again in About; Video Stamp can’t read or write video while it is off.

Early access

The Chromebook version is new. If anything doesn’t work as described, contact us and tell us your Chromebook model; we’ll fix it.

To help us confirm it works on real Chromebooks, the early-access version stamps a built-in 10-second test clip once per version (never your videos; tried again if it failed or could not be sent) and sends us whether it worked and how fast, along with the processor and ChromeOS version. No file names, videos or names are sent, and the check stops for good once Chromebooks like yours have confirmed it works. Details and how to turn it off are in the privacy policy.