Video thumbnails - what does it need? (I forgot...)

[Jim Gomi]

Thank you, that's just want I needed.
Indeed, the list of components does not mention LibQtAV, and it also
says that Media player support is disabled, which seems like a bad
choice too.

On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 17:45 +0100, Philip Johnsson wrote:
> Jim, 
> you can check if your version of digikam is built with video support
> if you open digikam and check in the menu under Help > Components
> Information. For Digikam 5.0-5.3, if you in the list of components
> have QtMultimedia and some version number (what ever version of it
> was used when being compiled) and for Digikam 5.4 and newer instead
> check for LibQtAV and some version number for that. If they are not
> listed with versions for either version of Digikam then you have no
> support for video enabled in digikam with the build you are using. If
> not there then Digikam needs to be rebuilt with it enabled to make
> the feature available what ever you try to install on your system
> after to get the feature.
> 
> /Philip
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Jim Gomi <gomi at mailup.net> wrote:
> > Can I get digikam to tell me whether it was compiled with the video
> > support option?
> > 
> > I want to be sure this is the problem before filing a bug.
> > 
> > On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 14:38 +0100, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > > This is not enough.
> > >
> > > digiKam video support is optional at compilation time. Probably
> > the
> > > is turned off by your Linux packager. Contact your distro team to
> > > turn on this option while packaging.
> > >
> > > Note AppImage Linux bundle has this option turned on, of course.
> > > Using the bundle is the most faster way to have this feature on
> > your
> > > computer...
> > >
> > > Gilles Caulier
> > >
> > > 2017-02-23 23:53 GMT+01:00 Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com>:
> > > > Try installing QtAV
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> > > >
> > > > -------- Original message --------
> > > > From: Jim Gomi <gomi at mailup.net>
> > > > Date: 2017-02-23 3:50 PM (GMT-07:00)
> > > > To: digikam-users at kde.org
> > > > Subject: Re: Video thumbnails - what does it need? (I
> > forgot...)
> > > >
> > > > I have Digikam 5.4.0 (Fedora 24) and video thumbnails are not
> > > > working
> > > > for me either. They used to work...
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 15:58 +0100, NeiNei wrote:
> > > > > Hi Daniel,
> > > > > you may notice this: 
> > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834131 -->
> > > > last 
> > > > > posting bei Simon Frei.
> > > > > As far as I understand it, it should be fixed in DK 5.4.
> > > > > HTH,
> > > > > NeiNei
> > > > > 
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > 
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