[Digikam-users] Browsing Videos plays sound, but no picture

[Dotan Cohen]

On 22/06/07, Arnd Baecker <arnd.baecker at web.de> wrote:
> I would suspect, that it is not a digikam problem, but
> more a KDE one.
> Isn't the programm which is connected with AVI's defined
> on the KDE level?
> See:
> kcontrol:KDE Components: File Associations:video
> There you should be able to make mplayer your first choice.

That's one of the first things that I do when I reinstall.

> Do you have the same problem, if you try to watch the film from konquerer?
>
> Best, Arnd

No, mPlayer works fine from konqi.

The suggestion to simply right-click the video and to choose a
different program is impractical for two reasons:
1) Digikam is used by the wife and the mother in law. If this needs
explanation, then no explanation will do.
2) We often fall on the videos when browsing the picture view, not the
thumbnail view. So, whoop, there it is, nobody expected that the next
file would be video.

Here, I bugzilla'ed a solution (for me at least), to simpy keep the
videos in a separate folder:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147073

Dotan Cohen

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