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

[Gilles Caulier]

to create video thumbs, install mplayerthumbs package and run
mplayerthumbsconfig gui

Gilles Caulier

2010/9/30 Chris G <cl at isbd.net>:
> 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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