DigiKam 5.8: AVCHD (.mts) video thumbnails missing

[NeiNei]

Thanks for the feedback and further details.

Meanwhile I did some research on the missing QtAV on the Ubuntu 
derivatives. It seems so that QtAV support will be part of the Ubuntu 
derivatives from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic) onward. See: 
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=qtav&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
Whether there will be any backport to Xenial seems to be unclear.

So, as long there is no official QtAV support on the *bunut Xenial 
platform I could not expect Video support in a native DigiKam 5.8 
package on these platforms or I have to switch to one of the 
alternatives Remco mentioned below. I found with Gecko Linux (an 
OpenSuse Spin) and OpenSuse two distros which already offer QtQV support.

Thanks for helping me to find out these details,
NeiNei

On 21.01.2018 08:33, Remco Viëtor wrote:
> On samedi 20 janvier 2018 21:14:29 CET NeiNei wrote:
>> Dear Gilles, Maik and Andrey,
>>
>> I tried with no luck:
>>   > digikam from Philip Johnsson 's PPA.
>>
>> There is no DigiKam 5.8 available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial)
>>
>>   > gstreamer codec bundles good bad ugly
>>
>> "good" was installed by default, installing "ugly" etc. did not change
>> the situation
>>
>> I tried with success:
>>   > try the appimage and see if the issue is still ther
>>
>> With the DigiKam 5.8 AppImage it is working
>>
>> DigiKam 5.8 64bit on Windows 8.1 works, too
>>
>> So do I now run out of options to get the native Digikam 5.8 package to
>> work?
> Yes.
> 
> If the packagers who make the "native" digikam 5.8 package refuse to include
> QtAV support when compiling, there's nothing you can do to get it working, as
> it's a hard-coded part of the program, not a plugin.
> 
> So you can:
> use the appimage, or
> compile digikam yourself, or
> switch to a distro that has everything you need compiled in their packages.
> 
> Remco
>