[Digikam-users] Playing videos in V5

[Maik Qualmann]

You must install the additional gstreamer packages from Packman repository.

Maik

On Mittwoch, 28. September 2016 23:02:12 CEST Hamnes Aaberge wrote:
> 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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Gruß Maik