[Digikam-users] Playing videos in V5

[Stuart T Rogers]

Following Robert Zellers advice on Leap I have installed Digikam V5 
successfully and now have both Digikam V5 from a private repo and a copy 
installed from Leap repos. No matter which one I start both run fine and 
both play my videos exactly as I was expecting. This obviously means I 
have to start digging into my Tumbleweed system to try to find the 
differences which must be causing the issue I have on that system.

Stuart

On 25/07/16 11:12, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
> OK to answer both Gilles and jdd
>
> To open the video I do what I always did in V4 which is double click on
> it and it expect it to open and play in the preview part of the main
> display which is what it has always done in V4 - in V5 it plays the
> video sound but the preview window shows all the thumbnails not the video.
>
> Secondly the openSUSE version did not have the correct compile options
> for QT5Multimedia so once that was corrected the proper thumbnails
> appeared for the video clips and the video should play. One of the
> openSUSE forum members confirmed that for him he can get the video to
> play, although it is not clear exactly how he did this as he does not
> normally use digikam and just tested it for me.
>
> If I right click on the video thumbnail and use open with and choose a
> video player then the video plays but externally to digikam in that
> players own window.
>
> Now unless V5 has changed how it works I expected the video to play in
> the preview part of the digikam window.
>
> Stuart
>
> On 25/07/16 10:48, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>>
>>
>> 2016-07-25 11:40 GMT+02:00 jdd <jdd at dodin.org <mailto:jdd at dodin.org>>:
>>
>>     Le 25/07/2016 à 11:12, Stuart T Rogers a écrit :
>>
>>         I have been doing a little more digging and apparently
>>         gstreamer-0_10
>>         seems quite old and I was able to un-install it with no problems
>>         so now
>>         I have only gstreamer 1.8.2 installed with all the appropriate
>>         plugins
>>         etc and yet I still have the problem in digikam.
>>
>>         So I guess I still need some help in debugging this if anyone
>>         has any
>>         ideas please?
>>
>>
>>     two things:
>>
>>     * for what I understand from the Gilles answer, digikam have to be
>>     compiled with special options to connect to gstreamer.
>>
>>
>> No. Only Qt5::Multimedia depend of GStreamer under Linux. That all.
>>
>> The only option in digiKam is about to support Qt5::Multimedia.
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>>
>>
>>
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