Bug 375399

Summary: No preview of video files
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Jim Shipman <JimShip>
Component: Preview-VideoAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: caulier.gilles, nucleo, rdieter
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.4.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In: 5.5.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Jim Shipman 2017-01-22 04:47:24 UTC 
My System - Fedora 25
After upgrade to 5.4.0-1 from the standard fedora 25 repository, I no longer get previews of video files (any type).
1) Pressing the fullscreen button on the thumbnails give the fullscreen viewer with an error message.  It works fine with photos.
2) All video formats play perfectly with every player installed on my system.
3) I have install QtAV and the qtav-player works perfectly with my videos.
4) Qt = 5.7.1, EXIV2 = 0.25
5) Component list shows "Media Player Support = no". All other components are yes or a version number.
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2017-01-22 05:24:47 UTC 
Well, video support is a compilation option. Report this problem to Fedora maintainer as DOWNSTREAM problem.

Note : you can use AppImage universal Linux bundle. Video support is enabled. The pre version 5.5.0 is available at this place :

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

Gilles Caulier
Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2017-01-27 21:13:09 UTC 
See also
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GillesCaulier/posts/L2Q2ke8h6Ze

Where I explained why fedora cannot legally enable this feature
Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2017-01-27 21:14:24 UTC 
*** Bug 375357 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2017-01-27 21:59:14 UTC 
Rex,

You don't want to depend on ffmpeg with fedora (for obscur reasons...). No problem, use libav fork of ffmpeg. QtAv is compatible with both...

https://libav.org/

Gilles Caulier