[digikam-doc] digikam: add more explaination about video support
Gilles Caulier
caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 10:00:42 UTC 2016
Git commit 0efbde8e33f3769677e5f1baaa3e0991643ea61d by Gilles Caulier.
Committed on 04/09/2016 at 10:00.
Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'.
add more explaination about video support
M +33 -20 digikam/intro-movieformats.docbook
http://commits.kde.org/digikam-doc/0efbde8e33f3769677e5f1baaa3e0991643ea61d
diff --git a/digikam/intro-movieformats.docbook b/digikam/intro-movieformats.docbook
index 899bdb5..5955d6d 100644
--- a/digikam/intro-movieformats.docbook
+++ b/digikam/intro-movieformats.docbook
@@ -1,34 +1,47 @@
<sect1 id="using-movieformats"> <title>Supported Movie Formats</title>
- <sect2> <title>Introduction</title>
-
- <para>
- Many digital cameras support taking of short movie clips.
- These clips are usually stored in AVI or MP4 format.
- &digikam; understands metadata from these formats and will generate
- thumbnails for the movie files.
- However, &digikam; is not a movie editing application and it does not have any
- built-in movie viewing or editing capabilities.
- If you double click on a movie file &digikam; you can preview video
- or choose a viewing application through your desktop settings.
- </para>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Introduction</title>
+
+ <para>
+ Many digital cameras support taking of short movie clips.
+ These clips are usually stored in AVI 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.
+ If you double click on a movie file &digikam; you can preview video
+ or choose a viewing application through your desktop settings.
+ </para>
</sect2>
- <sect2> <title>Video Formats</title>
+ <sect2>
+ <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 expecially 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. This codecs are loaded on demand at running time.
+ </para>
<para>
- &digikam; relies on Qt5Multimedia framework to handle video files.
- This framework will able to play video files depending on the availability of video codec
- installed on your system. &digikam; do not include extra video codec.
- On Linux desktop, this framework will use GStreamer backend.
- On other desktop operating system, you will need to install extra video codecs.
+ 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.
</para>
-
+
+ <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>.
+ </para>
+
</sect2>
</sect1>
-
+
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