[Digikam-users] Playing videos in V5

[Stuart T Rogers]

Well there was an openSUSE Tumbleweed update for digikam today which is 
just a re-compile basically so I installed it and you've guessed it my 
videos now play OK as they should. I have no idea exactly what was dne 
in the recompile but now it works!

Stuart

On 27/07/16 10:43, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
> 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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