DigiKam 5.8: AVCHD (.mts) video thumbnails missing

[Gilles Caulier]

or, to forget official package, and use the Linux universal AppImage that
we provide. This open as QtAV support of course...

Gilles Caulier

2018-01-24 10:34 GMT+01:00 NeiNei <neinei at gmx.net>:

> 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=na
> mes&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
>>
>>
>
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