[digiKam-users] digikam does not show videos with ".h264"

[Maik Qualmann]

Are you sure you put it in the line for ->Video<- mime types? And not in image 
mime types?

Otherwise send a short video file to my email.

Maik

Am Freitag, 6. Mai 2022, 17:13:49 CEST schrieb Tonio Kroeger:
> Thanks, I found the option, but digikam was not happy with the h264-Files:
> 
> h264  (Error # 11 :  [...]/2021-04-20_15-54-20_972p.h264: The file contains
> data of an unknown image type"
> /tmp/.mount_digiKaHS4PKJ/AppRun: line 177: 2077785 Segmentation fault
>      (core dumped) digikam $@
> 
> Seems I must dig deeper into that...
> 
> - Tonio
> 
> On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 12:24 PM Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Add "h264" as possible video mime type in digiKam Settings-> View-> Mime
> > Types.
> > 
> > Maik
> > 
> > Am Freitag, 6. Mai 2022, 10:24:04 CEST schrieb Tonio Kroeger:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I am running digikam 7.7 and I am very happy with it!
> > > 
> > > I am recording a vast number of videos with my rasperry pi and the
> > 
> > software
> > 
> > > "motion". I store the "raw" h264-streams as "videofilename.h264" and I
> > > do
> > > not want to convert them into something like mp4.
> > > 
> > > Digikam seems not to know anything about the suffix ".h264" and even
> > > does
> > > not show these files. I wonder whether it is possible to introduce this
> > > filetype in some settings, so digikam will show the files or even play
> > 
> > them.
> > 
> > > Any hints?
> > > 
> > > Thanks a lot!
> > > 
> > > Tonio