[Digikam-users] How to work with AVCHD videos?

[Tim Jenness]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:58 PM, John Stumbles <john at stumbles.org.uk> wrote:
> On 23/08/12 20:47, Tim Jenness wrote:
>
>> Does dolphin show thumbnails for the MTS files?
>
>
> Yes, it shows generic movie-clapboard icons for the files (as it does for
> other video formats)
>

Something is a bit wrong since it's meant to show little thumbnails
from the movie like it does for photos rather than a generic
clapboard.

>
>> digikam can see MTS files fine for me but I can't remember whether I
>> had to add .MTS to a file extension list at some point.
>
>
> So how do you get your MTS files into digikam?
>

I just copy them into the file system and it picks them up
automatically. Unfortunately my gentoo system is being rebuilt at the
moment so I can't run up a quick test to see whether I changed
something but I do remember having to tell some part of KDE or digikam
that MTS was a video file.

-- 
Tim Jenness