[Digikam-users] Playing videos in V5

Fri Sep 30 05:15:21 BST 2016

Install extra codec required by Qt5::Multimedia framework as explained in
welcome page from Windows Installer.

Look the section about video support in digiKam handbook :

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-movieformats.html

Gilles Caulier

2016-09-29 23:42 GMT+02:00 Fabian Frank <fabianfrank at greenmail.cc>:

> 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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