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

[Chris G]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 02:09:23PM +0200, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> to create video thumbs, install mplayerthumbs package and run
> mplayerthumbsconfig gui
> 
Well that's the first problem fixed, I now have thumbnails for the AVI
files. Thanks! Obviously mplayerthumbs isn't listed as a dependency for
digikam in ubuntu. 

I'm still not able to see the AVI files playing , it is trying a bit
harder now though.

When I click on one of the AVI thumbnails I get the 'Back', 'Forward'
and 'Back to Album' icons as before but in addition I get the 'playing'
time bar sort of thing at the bottom of the album pane and the slider
runs across as if the video is playing.  However I don't actually get to
see the video, either the thumbnails just sit there or the album pane is
black depending on where I started from.

No messages in the terminal window at all.

Clicking 'Back' and 'Forward' moves me through the AVI files (I assume,
nothing to show me what's happening) and each one 'plays' (i.e. the
slider moves across the bottom of the album pane).

By the way installing mplayerthumbs brought in quite a few dependencies
like mplayer and some libraries.

Thanks for the help so far.

> 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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