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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>If you are using KPA from git, then please fetch the lastest
version and give it a try.</p>
<p>I've reworked the video backend, so it now can use one of Phonon,
QtAv, and VLC</p>
<p>Here is the motivation for this change:</p>
<p>There are unfortunately no video player which just works out of
the box for everyone.<br>
KPhotoAlbum therefore comes with three different back-ends, choose
the one that works the best for you<br>
<br>
<b>VLC</b> seems to be the best supported video player back-end,
meaning it can play most video formats. <br>
It has one drawback though, it requires X11. <br>
If you use Wayland, then you will find that the videos shows up in
a window of their own, and in this case <br>
VLC is likely not a very good fit for you. If on the other hand
you do use X11 then VLC is likely your best choice.<br>
<br>
Traditionally KPhotoAlbum has been using <b>Phonon</b> as the
video player back-end. We've unfortunately seen it crash <br>
on many different video formats - possibly because our system
wasn't correctly configured. <br>
If this is the case for you (and you can't use VLC), then try the
<b>QtAV</b> back-end, <br>
which seems to support a lot of formats (everything we threw at
it). <br>
<b>QtAV</b> unfortunately also has a drawback - it seems to get
slightly out of sync between video and audio.<br>
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<p>Cheers<br>
Jesper.<br>
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