[Digikam-users] Thumbnails for videos

[Sjoerd]

Looks like there-s a (confirmed) bug report for this already :

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/digikam/+bug/890059

Same issue with KDE 4.7.4

Cheers,
Sjoerd

Quoting Vincent Barberet <vincent.barberet at gmail.com> at Tue, 27 Dec  
2011 15:18:58 +0100:

> Dear users,
>
> When I download videos (same behaviour with extension .mov or .mts), there
> is no thumbnails generated anymore.
> I just have in my albums the generic icon depicting a movie.
>
> It was working fine before latest updates, but I cannot tell you when the
> thumbnails generation of videos stopped working.
> I've checked that .MTS are well in the digikam configuration as extra
> extensions for videos. The fact that it does not work anymore for .MOV too
> (that is part of the extensions automatically recognised) let me think that
> it is not just linked with the digikam configuration.
>
> The same folder has correct thumbnails generation in konqueror and in
> dolphin.
>
> From command line, here is the kind of message I got:
> digikam(15986)/digikam (core) Digikam::ThumbnailCreator::createThumbnail:
> Cannot create thumbnail for
> "/media/video/VIDEO_VINCENT/Noel_2011/MVI_2449.MOV"
> digikam(15986)/digikam (core) Digikam::ThumbnailCreator::load: Thumbnail is
> null for  "/media/video/VIDEO_VINCENT/Noel_2011/MVI_2449.MOV"
>
> I'm using Digikam Version 2.4.1, with KDE 4.7.3
>
> What can I do to have this feature back ?
>
> regards
>
> Vincent