[digikam-doc] digikam: adjust documentation about video support with last replacement of Qt5Multimedia by QtAV framework
Gilles Caulier
null at kde.org
Sun Dec 18 08:39:59 UTC 2016
Git commit 67eff8ef334ee22dbc5d5ecee54edf900cbd0aae by Gilles Caulier.
Committed on 18/12/2016 at 08:39.
Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'.
adjust documentation about video support with last replacement of Qt5Multimedia by QtAV framework
M +16 -10 digikam/intro-movieformats.docbook
https://commits.kde.org/digikam-doc/67eff8ef334ee22dbc5d5ecee54edf900cbd0aae
diff --git a/digikam/intro-movieformats.docbook b/digikam/intro-movieformats.docbook
index 1cca914..e8b114b 100644
--- a/digikam/intro-movieformats.docbook
+++ b/digikam/intro-movieformats.docbook
@@ -5,16 +5,16 @@
<para>
Many digital cameras support taking of short movie clips.
- These clips are usually stored in AVI or MP4 format.
+ These clips are usually stored in AVI, MOV, or MP4 format.
&digikam; understands metadata from these formats and will generate
thumbnails for the movie files.
</para>
<para>
However, &digikam; is not a movie editing application and it does not have any
- built-in movie viewing or editing capabilities.
+ built-in movie editing capabilities.
If you double click on a movie file &digikam; you can preview video
- or choose a viewing application through your desktop settings.
+ or choose a dedicated viewing / editing application through your desktop settings.
</para>
</sect2>
@@ -23,19 +23,25 @@
<title>Video Formats</title>
<para>
- &digikam; relies on <ulink url="http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/multimediaoverview.html">Qt5 Multimedia framework</ulink> to handle video files.
- You must take a care to have installed all parts of this frameworks on your computer, and especially the multimedia plugins interface.
- This framework will able to play video files depending on the availability of video codecs
- installed on your system. &digikam; do not include extra video codec. These codecs are loaded on demand at running time.
+ &digikam; relies on <ulink url="http://www.qtav.org/">QtAV Multimedia framework</ulink> to handle video files.
+ In background, QtAV use the powerfull <ulink url="https://ffmpeg.org/">FFmpeg</ulink> video tool-kit, witch include
+ all codecs that digiKam needs to play video files.
</para>
<para>
- On &Linux; desktop, this framework will use GStreamer backends. You need to install GStreamer plugins named "Good", "Bad" and "Ugly",
- to be sure that all video formats will be handled by Qt5 Multimedia interface.
+ FFmpeg codec is available under &Linux; desktop, MacOS, and Windows. You will don't need to install extra video codec on your computer.
</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Video Features</title>
+
<para>
- On other desktop operating system, you will need to install extra video codecs, as KLite Codec Pack for <ulink url="http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm">Microsoft Windows</ulink> or for <ulink url="http://www.techisky.com/tips/k-lite-codec-pack-for-mac.html">Apple MacOS</ulink>.
+ With &digikam;, you will be able to read video metadata, as movies length, video frames per seconds, video size, and encoding options,
+ in goal to populate the database at scanning and to perform searches on your collection about video properties.
+ You will be able to play video in embeded preview mode, and while a slide-show. This include to preview video from your camera device before
+ downloading (only with USB Mass Storage connexion mode).
</para>
</sect2>
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