Video is mostly broken for me

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi Robbins,

Yes, there is something to experiment, at least outside digiKam, and
if all is fine, it's to replace the current internal QtAV.

Look this project in gihub:

https://github.com/valbok/QtAVPlayer

This code is a fork more and less of QtAV with plenty of classes
dropped or replaced. It's compatible with Qt5 and Qt6. Look if this
implementation work with your video files (here it works with mine).

Best

Gilles

Le dim. 2 juil. 2023 à 21:45, Steven Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> a écrit :
>
> Hello,
>
> Last year I tried to get video playing with ffmpeg 5 working, but eventually
> arrived at an impasse due to (I believe) a fundamental mis-design of qtav.
>
>   https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-devel/2022-October/112327.html
>
> Then events in real life took over and I dropped out of digikam development.
> Now that digikam 8.0 is out and Debian is no longer frozen, I build DK 8 for
> Debian the other day, with video re-enabled.  Most of my videos do not play
> and many of them will crash digikam outright.  I'm wondering about others'
> experience.  Am I an outlier?  If not, is there a path forward to fixing video
> playback?
>
> Last November, Maik and Gilles suggested to look at Qt Multimedia, but I think
> there was a desire to only use with Qt6 because of some deficiency in the Qt5
> implementation.
>
>   https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-devel/2022-November/112333.html
>
> Is this an accurate summary?  Is the solution therefore to wait for Qt6
> Multimedia?  If there's something I can do to help out, let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> -Steve