[Digikam-users] Re: AVI files in digikam when not running in KDE

[Chris G]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:43:43AM +0200, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Movies are managed by KDE Phonon component in digiKam. You need to be
> sure that Phonon plugin to display movies is installed, typically Xine
> plugin.
> 
I seem to have all possible bits of Phonon installed but I'm not quite so
sure about Xine.  I do have phonon-backend-xine and various xine
libraries, does that sound about right?

Running digikam from the command line when I open an album that has AVI
files I see (for each AVI file) :-

    digikam(14399)/digikam (core) Digikam::ThumbnailCreator::createThumbnail: Cannot create thumbnail for "/home/chris/pictures/working/Movies/DSCF3443.AVI" 
    digikam(14399)/digikam (core) Digikam::ThumbnailCreator::load: Thumbnail is null for  "/home/chris/pictures/working/Movies/DSCF3443.AVI" 

Then, if I click on one of the AVI files I get (rather small) a blue
left arrow, a blue right arrow and a little icon of some sort in the top
left corner of my album display pane.  The tooltips for them are 'back',
'forward' and 'back to album'.  'back' and 'forward' do nothing but
'back to album' does get me back to the album.  Until I click on 'back
to album' digikam is frozen and the album window isn't being refreshed. 

Nothing else appears, just the three small icons.

When I click on 'back to album' the following appears in the terminal
window:- 

    ERROR: backend MediaObject reached ErrorState after  1 . It seems a KioMediaStream will not help here, trying anyway. 

> Gilles Caulier
> 
> 2010/9/29 Chris G <cl at isbd.net>:
> > I run digikam 1.2 on an xubuntu 10.04 system, obviously all the required
> > KDE libraries are present but there's not a KDE desktop.
> >
> > If I double click on an AVI file in Digikam nothing at all happens, is
> > there anything I can do to get Digikam to load an appropriate
> > application to display the movie?
> >
> > Also, what sort of thumbnail should Digikam show for an AVI file?  What
> > I get is a film 'clapper' graphic.
> >
> > --
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Chris Green