[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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