Bug 336791

Summary:	Add same features for video files than image files
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	eagle08 <rstoecklin1>
Component:	Database-Schema	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles
Priority:	NOR
Version:	3.5.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	5.4.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description eagle08 2014-06-27 11:16:54 UTC

it would be nice to include the same features for camcorders;
thumbnails for MTS format camcorders (Sony, Panasonic);
use of metadata and GPS positionning
montage features;
transcoding to popular formats;

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2014-06-27 14:00:03 UTC

DigiKam 4.0.0 is able to manage video as photo, especially about metadata. You just need to update Exiv2 shared lib to last 0.24 (and recompile whole digiKam of course).

About video thumb, it's delegate to KDE video thumbnailers, based on a backend as GStreamer, or ffmpeg. Install right package to support video thumbs (same kioslave is used with Dolphin.

Gilles Caulier

Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2016-12-22 13:37:03 UTC

digiKam 5.4.0 bundles will use QtAV framework instead Qt5Multimedia to thumb
and play video. The Slideshow tool will also support video as well.

QtAV use ffmpeg codecs. It's multi-platform and will always available in
OSX, Windows and Linux bundles that digiKam team provide.

For Linux packagers, you will need to turn on video support at compilation time
and solve QtAV dependencies...

The screenshot here :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/30886133553/in/dateposted-public/

... is based on pre-release of AppImage 64 bits Linux bundle, just recompiled
and post to GDrive for testing.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWelRJenM