<div dir="ltr"><div>Besides having supported video codec in gstreamer 1.0 series of plugins you also need the runtime dependent package libqt5multimedia5-plugins (or equal package name on your linux distribution) to have libqt5multimedia5 connect to the gstreamer codec plugins to play video in digikam 5.<br><br></div>/Philip<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Maik Qualmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:metzpinguin@gmail.com" target="_blank">metzpinguin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">You must install the additional gstreamer packages from Packman repository.<br>
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Maik<br>
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On Mittwoch, 28. September 2016 23:02:12 CEST Hamnes Aaberge wrote:<br>
> I still have the problem with no ability to play videos in Digikam. I'm now<br>
> using the digikam from Opensuse in the repository KDE-Extra. It says that it<br>
> is compiled with QT Multimediasupport. If i rightclick the tumbnail and<br>
> open it iv VLC (which is set as default) it plays perfectly in a sseperate<br>
> vindow. It also played perfectly in Digikam 4. In Digikam 5 I get the<br>
> message (translated): "It happened something wrong with the mediaplayer".<br>
> If I play MP4-files nothing happens (except for the message), with<br>
> avi-files I can hear the sound but no video. As suggested I have tried to<br>
> remove all gstreamer-0_10 and just keep the gstreamer 1.8.3, including the<br>
> plugins base,good, bad, ugly, qt and qt5 with the same result. I've had the<br>
> same problem in Digikam 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2. So if anyone has maneged to get<br>
> it to work I would be really glad to hear suggestions about what to do.<br>
><br>
> Svein H.A<br>
><br>
> onsdag 27. juli 2016 11.22.26 CEST skrev Stuart T Rogers:<br>
> > Well there was an openSUSE Tumbleweed update for digikam today which is<br>
> > just a re-compile basically so I installed it and you've guessed it my<br>
> > videos now play OK as they should. I have no idea exactly what was dne<br>
> > in the recompile but now it works!<br>
> ><br>
> > Stuart<br>
> ><br>
> > On 27/07/16 10:43, Stuart T Rogers wrote:<br>
> > > Following Robert Zellers advice on Leap I have installed Digikam V5<br>
> > > successfully and now have both Digikam V5 from a private repo and a copy<br>
> > > installed from Leap repos. No matter which one I start both run fine and<br>
> > > both play my videos exactly as I was expecting. This obviously means I<br>
> > > have to start digging into my Tumbleweed system to try to find the<br>
> > > differences which must be causing the issue I have on that system.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Stuart<br>
> > ><br>
> > > On 25/07/16 11:12, Stuart T Rogers wrote:<br>
> > >> OK to answer both Gilles and jdd<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> To open the video I do what I always did in V4 which is double click on<br>
> > >> it and it expect it to open and play in the preview part of the main<br>
> > >> display which is what it has always done in V4 - in V5 it plays the<br>
> > >> video sound but the preview window shows all the thumbnails not the<br>
> > >> video.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> Secondly the openSUSE version did not have the correct compile options<br>
> > >> for QT5Multimedia so once that was corrected the proper thumbnails<br>
> > >> appeared for the video clips and the video should play. One of the<br>
> > >> openSUSE forum members confirmed that for him he can get the video to<br>
> > >> play, although it is not clear exactly how he did this as he does not<br>
> > >> normally use digikam and just tested it for me.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> If I right click on the video thumbnail and use open with and choose a<br>
> > >> video player then the video plays but externally to digikam in that<br>
> > >> players own window.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> Now unless V5 has changed how it works I expected the video to play in<br>
> > >> the preview part of the digikam window.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> Stuart<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> On 25/07/16 10:48, Gilles Caulier wrote:<br>
> > >>> 2016-07-25 11:40 GMT+02:00 jdd <<a href="mailto:jdd@dodin.org">jdd@dodin.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jdd@dodin.org">jdd@dodin.org</a>>>:<br>
> > >>> Le 25/07/2016 à 11:12, Stuart T Rogers a écrit :<br>
> > >>> I have been doing a little more digging and apparently<br>
> > >>> gstreamer-0_10<br>
> > >>> seems quite old and I was able to un-install it with no<br>
> > >>> problems<br>
> > >>> so now<br>
> > >>> I have only gstreamer 1.8.2 installed with all the appropriate<br>
> > >>> plugins<br>
> > >>> etc and yet I still have the problem in digikam.<br>
> > >>><br>
> > >>> So I guess I still need some help in debugging this if anyone<br>
> > >>> has any<br>
> > >>> ideas please?<br>
> > >>><br>
> > >>> two things:<br>
> > >>><br>
> > >>> * for what I understand from the Gilles answer, digikam have to be<br>
> > >>> compiled with special options to connect to gstreamer.<br>
> > >>><br>
> > >>> No. Only Qt5::Multimedia depend of GStreamer under Linux. That all.<br>
> > >>><br>
> > >>> The only option in digiKam is about to support Qt5::Multimedia.<br>
> > >>><br>
> > >>> Gilles Caulier<br>
> > >>><br>
> > >>><br>
> > >>><br>
> > >>><br>
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Gruß Maik<br>
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