[Digikam-users] Playing videos in V5

[Maik Qualmann]

I use for the digiKam development openSUSE Tumbleweed, all video formats play 
fine. No settings for this in digikam. But first with the gstreamer-plugin-libav 
(ffmpeg).

Maik

On Donnerstag, 29. September 2016 17:58:37 CEST Philip Johnsson wrote:
> Besides having supported video codec in gstreamer 1.0 series of plugins you
> also need the runtime dependent package libqt5multimedia5-plugins (or equal
> package name on your linux distribution) to have libqt5multimedia5 connect
> to the gstreamer codec plugins to play video in digikam 5.
> 
> /Philip
> 
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > 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


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Gruß Maik