Digikam does not start any more

[Maik Qualmann]

The video encoding must also be disabled via an environment variable.

You can test the changes with the next AppImage.
Simply delete your ~/.config/digikam_systemrc to activate the new settings.

Maik

Am Dienstag, 18. Februar 2025, 20:55:25 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieben 
Sie:
> Whether disabling the video hardware acceleration via environment variable
> helps remains to be seen, as Qt Multimedia still searches for hardware:
> 
> qt.multimedia.ffmpeg: Using Qt multimedia with FFmpeg version 7.1 nonfree
> and unredistributable
> qt.multimedia.ffmpeg: Available HW decoding frameworks:
> qt.multimedia.ffmpeg:      vaapi
> qt.multimedia.ffmpeg:      vdpau
> 
> Maik
> 
> Am Dienstag, 18. Februar 2025, 20:39:11 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit
> schrieben
> Sie:
> > Hi Gilles,
> > 
> > I also think that we should disable it by default, for software OpenGL I
> > would also suggest that it is used.
> > 
> > Maik
> > 
> > Am Dienstag, 18. Februar 2025, 20:34:32 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit
> > schrieb> 
> > Gilles Caulier:
> > > Hi Maik,
> > > 
> > > These settings turned off by default now in the application ?
> > > 
> > > Gilles
> > > 
> > > Le mar. 18 févr. 2025 à 18:36, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> a
> > > 
> > > écrit :
> > > > Hi Alberto,
> > > > 
> > > > Try the digiKam-8.6.0 AppImage first.
> > > > Edit the ~/.config/digikam_systemrc
> > > > 
> > > > Set Video Hardware Acceleration to false. If the entry doesn't exist,
> > > > create it:
> > > > 
> > > > [System]
> > > > enableHWTConv=false
> > > > enableHWVideo=false
> > > > 
> > > > Maik
> > > > 
> > > > Am Dienstag, 18. Februar 2025, 12:00:01 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit
> > > > schrieben
> > > > 
> > > > Sie:
> > > > > > The debug output in the terminal would be interesting with the Qt
> > > > > > debug
> > > > > > variable active:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > export QT_LOGGING_RULES="digikam*=true"
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Maik
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hi Mike,
> > > > > 
> > > > > here my output:
> > > > > ----
> > > > > qt.multimedia.ffmpeg: Using Qt multimedia with FFmpeg version n7.1
> > > > > GPL
> > > > > version 3 or later
> > > > > qt.multimedia.ffmpeg: Available HW decoding frameworks:
> > > > > Errore di segmentazione (core dump creato)