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<p>Hi, you might remember me, I was the original developer of
KPhotoAlbum, but then life happened to me - two daughters and a
change to use a Surface Pro as my only computer (Hint I can't run
Linux on it - yes I tried).</p>
<p>Ever since I switched to use Windows 10 as my default platform
I've fought hard to try and get KPA back in my life. I obviously
tried compiling it on windows, but failed. Second I tried running
it under the linux subsystem on window, which worked OKish, but
not that reliable in the end, and now I'm using VirtualBox with a
Linux inside it. <br>
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<p>That works, except for one thing: Video Playback.</p>
<p>Whatever I tried, I simply couldn't get it to play reliably, and
would either freeze or be very jerky....</p>
<p>So in the end I wrote a very simply windows app which listens for
a connection from KPA, and once the two are connected, KPA will
tell the windows app to play videos for it.</p>
<p>If you want to try it out, you need to fetch the branch <b>feature/remote-video-player</b>.
Once you have compiled KPhotoAlbum from there, go to
settings->Viewer, and check the checkbox labeled <b>Use
external viewer for videos. <br>
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<p>Next you need to compile the application in the <b>RemoteVideoPlayer
</b>subdirectory, and run that on your windows machine.</p>
<p>Once you open a video file, KPA will connect to your windows
machine and it will play it natively on windows.</p>
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<p>Cheers<br>
Jesper.<br>
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