[Digikam-users] Playing videos in V5

Thu Sep 29 22:42:19 BST 2016

Hi,
just a short question - a little OT - sorry:
I never could play videos directly from digikam. I am on Windows (8.1). 
Is there something I can do about this?
VLC is installed.

Thanks.
Best
Fabian

Am 29.09.2016 um 18:32 schrieb 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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