[digiKam-users] How to disable/replace default video player on Windows

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi all,

Video support in digiKam is not a hack. It include a full feature video
player named QtAV based on powerfull ffmpeg codec/API. We pass a lots of
time to include QtAv in digiKam...

https://www.qtav.org/

The problem reported Adam about poor performance with 4K or H265 video
media is relevant of codec included in ffmpeg while crooss compiling with
MXE. The options to compile codecs is important where some platform
dependent settings can be missing while building the bundle. So for
optimisations, we need time to report this problem to MXE team, perform
tests, and rebuild the bundles in the right way.

To respond to the question about to use the target platform video player
instead the embedded QtAv version, the response is no. QtAv is a
multi-platform video player with one common code for all, and using ffmpeg
codecs in background, also available de facto everywhere. The gain is to
reduce the complexity to developers, packagers, and users, as no extra
codecs needs to be installed in target computer as for the QtMultimedia
solution which is a big puzzle. For this last point we receive a lots of
reports in bugzilla because the video player do not work at all. At least
with QtAv is work but it's not yet perfect and improvements need to be done.

 Best

Gilles Caulier

Le lun. 30 sept. 2019 à 17:23, Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com> a écrit :

> I think one can compile digiKam without a video support.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Digikam-users <digikam-users-bounces at kde.org> On Behalf Of
> jdd at dodin.org
> Sent: September 30, 2019 8:50 AM
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] How to disable/replace default video player
> on Windows
>
> Le 28/09/2019 à 13:52, Boz Avram a écrit :
> > Hello,
> > The brilliant functionality of digiKam is ruined by the stuttering
> > performance of the built in video player
>
> notice digikam is in no way a video application. Viewing video is only a
> hack...
>
> jdd
>
>
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