Bug 330112 - No Thumbnails for video files - ffmpegthumbnailer works perfectly outside of digikam
Summary: No Thumbnails for video files - ffmpegthumbnailer works perfectly outside of ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: digikam
Classification: Applications
Component: Thumbs-Video (show other bugs)
Version: 4.0.0
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Digikam Developers
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Reported: 2014-01-18 05:18 UTC by Jim Shipman
Modified: 2017-07-27 10:58 UTC (History)
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Version Fixed In: 5.4.0
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Description Jim Shipman 2014-01-18 05:18:33 UTC 
Fedora 20 Gnome - digikam compiled from source 4.0.0-beta2 tarball with debugfull.
ffmpegthumbnailer works perfectly in a terminal for all my video formats.  Photos thumbnail correctly.  Nautilus correctly thumbnails all video files.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start digikam
2. Look for video thumbnails (or run maint->thumbnailer)
3. 
Actual Results:  
No Thumbnails for video files

Expected Results:  
I expect to see thumbnails for my video files
Comment 1 Jekyll Wu 2014-01-18 05:34:51 UTC 
already reported as bug 330111
Comment 2 Jim Shipman 2014-01-19 03:14:57 UTC 
I have done some more checking.  It looks like I am getting thumbnails for most of my video files (it seems to have taken some time for them to show up), but not for the AVI (mjpeg inside) files from an old camera that I had.  These AVI files play perfectly, but ffmpeg says that they contain invalid data and doesn't do anything with them.  The problem seems to be with ffmpeg (or a missing codec) and not with digikam.
Jim Shipman
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2014-01-19 08:15:19 UTC 
Yes, there is no video preview extractor in digiKam. All is delegate to KDE video thumbnailer.

Best

Gilles Caulier
Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2016-12-15 11:15:09 UTC 
digiKam 5.4.0 will have a video thumbnailer based on QtAV framework. We do not use KDE video thumbnailer anymore...

Gilles Caulier