[Digikam-users] No default movie player?

[Arnd Baecker]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Gilles Caulier wrote:

> 2008/1/22, Arnd Baecker <arnd.baecker at web.de>:
> >
> > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Yan Seiner wrote:
> >
> > > Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 2008/1/20, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com <mailto:yan at seiner.com>>:
> > > >
> > > >     Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > > >     > Yan.
> > > >     >
> > > >     > I have fixed this problem in 0.9.3 release.
> > > >     Great!
> > > >
> > > >     updated, problem fixed. Thanks!
> > > >
> > > >     One minor question:
> > > >
> > > >     How do I go back from the player to the thumbnails?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Press ESC or unlock "View" button from toolbar
> > > >
> > >
> > > Great, thanks.  One minor bug in the internal player:
> > >
> > > occasionally when the video stops, a 60 Hz buzz continues from the
> > > speakers.  (Maybe in Europe it's a 50 Hz buzz?)
> > >
> > > This occurs rarely and I haven't found a good way to reproduce this.
> > > I'll post a video clip when I find one that I can make public.
> >
> > Ok. Please open a new bug report for this then.
> > (Otherwise it will get lost ....)
>
>
> Wait a minute : there is no internal movie player in digiKam core. We use a
> plugin from KDE core for that (as Kaffeine for ex.)
>
> If something go wrong here about sound or video, this is not digiKam
> fault...

Sorry, you are right Gilles - we already
have too many bugs in the digikam bug tracker
essentially caused by other software .... ;-)
((Of course, this is not always easy to see for the user
whom he should blame ... ;-))

Best, Arnd