[KPhotoAlbum] Problems playing videos

[Constantin Orăsan]

Hi Johannes,


> Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2020, 00:29:36 CEST schrieb Constantin Orăsan:
> > I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 and kphotoalbum 5.6.1. Everything works
> > fine, except playing videos in the program. I have ffmpeg installed and
> > kphotoalbum generates the thumbnails from videos without a problem. I can
> > play the videos if I open them individually using a media player. Do you
> > have any suggestions what I am missing? What does kpa use to play videos?
>
> KPhotoalbum uses Phonon for playing videos. Maybe choosing a different
> phonon
> backend could help? Does the video play fine in e.g. kphononplayer?
>
>
Thank you for the prompt reply. I managed to make it work after I
installed kmplayer and phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer. The latter also
removed a package phonon4qt5-backend-null which probably caused the
problems. Who knew ubuntu comes with something like this? :)

Best wishes,

Constantin
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