[Digikam-users] Digikam not playing video

[Gilles Caulier]

2008/1/5, Arnd Baecker <arnd.baecker at web.de>:
>
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, cotcot wrote:
>
> > Bugzilla from arnd.baecker at web.de wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, cotcot wrote:
> > >
> > >> I am running digikam 0.9.2 in ubuntu gytsy with the kipi plugins.
> > >> When i click on a icon of a video (mpeg, avi, mov ..) i get the
> message
> > >> 'no
> > >> media player available'.
> > >> What is wrong ?
> > >> I cannot find in the configuration option any tool to point to a
> player
> > >> for
> > >> these mime types. Or does this only work for a KDE environment ?
> > >
> > > You might have to use
> > >   kcontrol
> > > on the command line to specify a player for the KDE environment.
> > > Your problem should not be specific to digikam,
> > > i.e., for example for konquerer you should get the same.
> > > (Note that I don't use KDE myself, but FVWM, and here
> > > it works ...;-)
> > >
> > > HTH, Arnd
>
> [...]
>
> > Thanks for replying.
> > I installed kcontrol. I guess that the player is to be specified under
> > KDEcomponents --> File associations --> video ? I have put there on top
> for
> > .avi .mpeg ... VLC media player but digikam still gives the same error.
> > When i start digikam from the command line i get this error :
> > Cannot load metadata using Exiv2  (/home/catweazle/... .mpeg: The file
> > contains data of an unknown image type)
> > Same for .MOV or .mov extentions.
>
> These warnings/errors can be ignored
> (exiv2 just does not know about these).
>
> > These files can normally be opened from
> > nautilus with vlc and other players.
>
> I just tried it with a .avi on my installation.
> Interestingly, with konquerer noatun is used
> to display the video externally.
>
> For digikam, the video is displayed inside of the view.
> On the command-line one gets the message:
>
> digikam: Search a KPart to preview MVI_1865.AVI (video/x-msvideo)
> digikam: Find KPart library libkaboodlepart
>
> Do you see something similar?
>
> Gilles, does digikam respect the kcontrol settings,
> or can one configure the player for videos somewhere
> inside of digikam?



not exactly. digiKam scan all shared plugin available to display the video
and take the first one available.

The list of plugins available is given in kcontrol. But the way to parse
this list in digiKam cannot respect the order given in KControl (this depand
of KDE API rules i think)

Personally, i use kaffeine plugin to display video (Xine frontend). It's
certainly the better one.

Gilles
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