Bug 96133

Summary:	digiKam to play video
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	markus
Component:	Preview-Video	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.7.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	5.4.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description markus 2005-01-01 23:17:37 UTC

Version:           0.7 (using KDE 3.3.1,  (3.1))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-3)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.9

My digital camera (Nikon 5200) can record movies. I would like digiKam to call a movie application such as KPlayer in order to play it in the same way as normal images are displayed in the Image Editor. 

It needn't be a movie editor, but just a component to view it. 

And in the album such movies are dosplayed with a blank page. What about grabbing the first frame and using it instead?

Comment 1 lan 2005-01-02 05:25:41 UTC

I have installed mplayer on my SuSE 9.1 system and I have setuped it as default player for movies (via konqueror). When I click on AVI file from my camera, digikam launches mplayer and play movie.

But idea with first frame as preview is instresting, but I am not sure it will be easy to grab first frame.

Comment 2 Cyrill Helg 2005-01-02 14:11:53 UTC

I have here a gentoo system and use the latest cvs version of digikam, And it shows excatly what you want. The movies have the first frame as a preview and when I click on it they are played with the default movie player.

Comment 3 Mikolaj Machowski 2005-01-02 19:49:20 UTC

> But idea with first frame as preview is instresting, but I am not sure
> it will be easy to grab first frame.

KDE (Konqueror) can do this so I don't see the reason to be able to do
this in digiKam. In fact it should be already available - just a matter
of preview settings in KDE Control Center/Konqueror.

Comment 4 markus 2005-01-03 03:41:39 UTC

I think both my issues work now. 

a) use the first frame as thumbnail is OK
b) use the default movie player is also OK. 

I close the ticket as resolved. 

Thanks for your comments!

Comment 5 caulier.gilles 2016-12-17 16:33:37 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. The 32bits version is under process and will be
available at the same place today evening.

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