[Digikam-users] Playing videos in V5

[Hamnes Aaberge]

I still have the problem with no ability to play videos in Digikam. I'm now 
using the digikam from Opensuse in the repository KDE-Extra. It says that it 
is compiled with QT Multimediasupport. If i rightclick the tumbnail and open 
it iv VLC (which is set as default) it plays perfectly in a sseperate vindow. 
It also played perfectly in Digikam 4. In Digikam 5 I get the message 
(translated): "It happened something wrong with the mediaplayer". If I play 
MP4-files nothing happens (except for the message), with avi-files I can hear 
the sound but no video. As suggested I have tried to remove all gstreamer-0_10 
and just keep the gstreamer 1.8.3, including the plugins base,good, bad, ugly, 
qt and qt5 with the same result. I've had the same problem in Digikam 5.0, 5.1 
and 5.2. So if anyone has maneged to get it to work I would be really glad to 
hear suggestions about what to do.

Svein H.A




onsdag 27. juli 2016 11.22.26 CEST skrev 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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