Bug 188335

Summary: slideshow shows video as "cannot show picture "xyz.mov"
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Edwin Schepers <yez>
Component: Plugin-Generic-SlideShowAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: caulier.gilles, nikenier
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.10.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Microsoft Windows   
OS: Microsoft Windows   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 1.5.0

Description Edwin Schepers 2009-03-28 13:47:05 UTC 
Version:           0.10.0-rc2 (using 4.2.00 (KDE 4.2.0), MS Visual Studio 2005 SP1)
Compiler:          cl.exe
OS:                Microsoft Windows (i686) release 5.1 (XP Professional)

Hi,
I think for the slideshow viewer (me included) it's irrelevant to show the message "cannot show picture xyz.mov". I have multiple movies in a directory, and the only thing I see for one minute is this message.

Keep up the good work!

Regards,
Edwin
Comment 1 Andi Clemens 2009-06-07 18:04:42 UTC 
The question is should we skip those files completely, or should we display the movies if possible?
I would vote for skipping them.

Andi
Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2009-06-07 18:10:44 UTC 
I'm agree too

Gilles Caulier
Comment 3 Edwin Schepers 2009-06-09 19:22:17 UTC 
I wouldn't mind to view the movies (if I were able to). Why not make it configurable ?
Comment 4 Andi Clemens 2010-07-17 13:22:49 UTC 
*** Bug 222319 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Andi Clemens 2010-09-26 09:36:04 UTC 
SVN commit 1179729 by aclemens:

Do not load items if they are other types than DatabaseItem::Image.
Right now the slideshow is not capable to display non-image types like movies,
so we should skip them completely, to avoid an annoying error message for every
single item.

In the future, we should consider to add these type of items, too.

CCBUG: 188335

 M  +2 -2      NEWS  
 M  +4 -0      digikam/digikamview.cpp  
 U             utilities/slideshow/slideshow.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1179729
Comment 6 Andi Clemens 2010-09-26 09:37:03 UTC 
I will close this one now, please file a wish (if not already existent) for supporting all media in the slideshow.