<div dir="ltr">In this case digiKam is not compiled with video support. It's a packaging problem.<div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-02-26 20:32 GMT+01:00 Jim Gomi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gomi@mailup.net" target="_blank">gomi@mailup.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thank you, that's just want I needed.<br>
Indeed, the list of components does not mention LibQtAV, and it also<br>
says that Media player support is disabled, which seems like a bad<br>
choice too.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 17:45 +0100, Philip Johnsson wrote:<br>
> Jim, <br>
> you can check if your version of digikam is built with video support<br>
> if you open digikam and check in the menu under Help > Components<br>
> Information. For Digikam 5.0-5.3, if you in the list of components<br>
> have QtMultimedia and some version number (what ever version of it<br>
> was used when being compiled) and for Digikam 5.4 and newer instead<br>
> check for LibQtAV and some version number for that. If they are not<br>
> listed with versions for either version of Digikam then you have no<br>
> support for video enabled in digikam with the build you are using. If<br>
> not there then Digikam needs to be rebuilt with it enabled to make<br>
> the feature available what ever you try to install on your system<br>
> after to get the feature.<br>
><br>
> /Philip<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Jim Gomi <<a href="mailto:gomi@mailup.net">gomi@mailup.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Can I get digikam to tell me whether it was compiled with the video<br>
> > support option?<br>
> ><br>
> > I want to be sure this is the problem before filing a bug.<br>
> ><br>
> > On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 14:38 +0100, Gilles Caulier wrote:<br>
> > > This is not enough.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > digiKam video support is optional at compilation time. Probably<br>
> > the<br>
> > > is turned off by your Linux packager. Contact your distro team to<br>
> > > turn on this option while packaging.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Note AppImage Linux bundle has this option turned on, of course.<br>
> > > Using the bundle is the most faster way to have this feature on<br>
> > your<br>
> > > computer...<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Gilles Caulier<br>
> > ><br>
> > > 2017-02-23 23:53 GMT+01:00 Andrey Goreev <<a href="mailto:aegoreev@gmail.com">aegoreev@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> > > > Try installing QtAV<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > ><br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > -------- Original message --------<br>
> > > > From: Jim Gomi <<a href="mailto:gomi@mailup.net">gomi@mailup.net</a>><br>
> > > > Date: 2017-02-23 3:50 PM (GMT-07:00)<br>
> > > > To: <a href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org">digikam-users@kde.org</a><br>
> > > > Subject: Re: Video thumbnails - what does it need? (I<br>
> > forgot...)<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > I have Digikam 5.4.0 (Fedora 24) and video thumbnails are not<br>
> > > > working<br>
> > > > for me either. They used to work...<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 15:58 +0100, NeiNei wrote:<br>
> > > > > Hi Daniel,<br>
> > > > > you may notice this: <br>
> > > > > <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834131" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-<wbr>bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834131</a> --><br>
> > > > last <br>
> > > > > posting bei Simon Frei.<br>
> > > > > As far as I understand it, it should be fixed in DK 5.4.<br>
> > > > > HTH,<br>
> > > > > NeiNei<br>
> > > > > <br>
> > > ><br>
> > > ><br>
> > ><br>
> ><br>
><br>
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