Digikam 5.3.0 on windows does not show mov files

[Shlomi Vaknin]

Oh that is fantastic! Thank you so much!

Installed and it works perfect, thumbails, preview and all,

Thank you and a happy new year as well :)


On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 11:23 PM, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It's simple. To manage video as photo with digiKam, just use pre release
> 5.4.0. This one will have all relevant codecs to play MOV files. No need
> extra codecs to install as with 5.3.0.
>
> This version will arrive with more than 140 bug fixes :
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?f1=cf_versionfixedin&list_
> id=1411116&o1=equals&product=digikam&product=kipiplugins&
> query_format=advanced&v1=5.4.0
>
> A precompiled installer for Windows is available in GDrive here :
>
> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWelRJenM
>
> Note that 5.4.0 is able to generate as wel all video thumbnails under
> Windows (and OSX), 5.3.0 was unable to do it, even if extra codecs are
> installed on your computer.
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/31572654722/in/dateposted-public/
>
> 5.4.0 Windows installer will also include Exiv2 library version 0.26 which
> arrive with more than 200 bug fixes, This version is not yet released.
>
> http://dev.exiv2.org/projects/exiv2/roadmap
>
> This library used to manage metadata from files in low level, will be able
> to handle better video files.
>
> Voilà... Happy new year.
>
> My best.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
>
>
> 2016-12-27 4:32 GMT+01:00 Shlomi <shlomivaknin at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am normally a linux user, so I feel a real urge to apologize for
>> opening a
>> windows question. a little embarrassed even..
>>
>> I have installed digikam on my wife's new laptop, so she could arrange her
>> photos etc. Our camera generates "mov" files for videos, and on digikam
>> they
>> have no thumb, and when focusing on a mov file, all I am seeing is "an
>> error
>> has occurred with the media player".
>>
>> I did see some messages back saying something about a crash. I dont
>> experience any crashes, just cant play them.
>>
>> Is there some way of fixing it? even to be able to open an external player
>> on the file (dont even care about thumb so much) would be helpful.
>>
>> I tried to first google it and also searched on nabble, I hope I didnt
>> miss
>> some obvious solution, dont mean to spam this list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shlomi
>>
>> Using:
>> KDE Frameworks 5.27.0
>> Qt 5.7.0 (built against 5.7.0)
>> The windows windowing system
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>
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