DigiKam 5.8: AVCHD (.mts) video thumbnails missing

[Andrey Goreev]

I think Cannonical ships a wrong ffmpeg in their repository. The project split into ffmpeg and Libav (I think) one day and them both used name ffmpeg in the beginning.Anyways, you can just compile ffmpeg yourself using this guide: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu
I am no programmer at all and I have done it few times.
So if you don't like appimages and don't want to switch to another distro this might be way to go.
I am on openSUSE and sometimes  it is a bit of pain in the a$$ compare to debian/ubuntu.  Or at least it was in the beginning. 
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-------- Original message --------From: Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> Date: 2018-01-24  2:50 AM  (GMT-07:00) To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org> Subject: Re: DigiKam 5.8: AVCHD (.mts) video thumbnails missing 
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=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








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