No sound on videos?

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi Todd,

I saw your post on Reddit, but I haven't yet taken time to respond. Sorry.

I also use a macbook pro M1 (not M3) to store video and photos. My
video comes from an Iphone 15 pro, and the sound is played well.

Check in DK/Setup/Misc/System which décoding backend is used to render video :

https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/miscs_settings.html#system-settings

Ffmpeg must be the default backend, but with problematic format, the
AVFoundation can be used instead (Apple framework). It can require 3rd
party codecs to install on the system (ffmpeg as all in one).

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le mar. 22 avr. 2025 à 15:46, Todd Smith <toddsmth301 at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> Hi all I posted the below on Reddit, but didn't manage to get any help, so just posting here too in case somebody has some advice and can help.
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> Hi, Im loving Digikam for organising my photos and I now just started to try using it with a Mac as I am looking for a central place to manage everything. I imported a bunch of videos and was about to start tagging them when I noticed all of them have no sound. I checked the files in finder and there the sound is ok, but in Digikam everything plays without sound.
> Have I missed something? Any idea what is wrong??
> Thanks for reading :-)
> Todd
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> I would be so grateful for any help as I am trying to organise my library before my daughter's graduation and I have thousands of files to go through...
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