Update 5.4.0 on Windows : no sound with all my videos

[Maik Qualmann]

I think a working XAudio2 backend is the best. Please install the official 
digiKam-5.4.0 installer. You have Windows7, please install the latest 
DirectX11 runtime from Microsoft. This should solve the problem.

Maik

On Dienstag, 24. Januar 2017 09:56:05 CET Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 2017-01-24 9:14 GMT+01:00 nonobio <nonobio at gmail.com>:
> > Hi :)
> > 
> > I installed the Maik Qualmann version : as usual, the installer ask me to
> > uninstall my actual version, i did it from installer and then it installed
> > the new version.
> > 
> > I tried a first video : there is sound :) , but.. when i stop playback
> > either by clicking on "thumb" button or "Echap", the last sound is
> > repeated
> > in loop : "oop oop oop oop oop oop oop oop .... ;)". I can only stop this
> > looping sound by playing a new video or leaving Digikam.
> > 
> > Also, when i start a video for the second time, the sound is here but not
> > good anymore, it is like a old disk with dust.
> > 
> > Voilà for the video issue.
> > 
> > I have anothers issues since i installed this new version 5.5 : i lost my
> > custom toolbar (the most annoying) and a lot of settings are not
> > translated
> > in my language (french).
> 
> This can be a simple packaging problem. Typically, the translations are
> bundled if digiKam is compiled with translations files extraction from KDE
> svn server. This is configurable. translation extraction is very long, and
> to speed up we can pass this stage. Perhaps Maik has commented this option.
> 
> Gilles Caulier