digikam 5.4.0 in the latest KDE neon user edition does not play video. Are there any compile options or dependencies missing? Afaik digikam has changed the video backend from QtMultimedia to QtAV which means that they are using ffmpeg now. I've got this on the console: ->digikam.general: Video support is not available ffplay is able to play the video without problems, so it isn't a ffmpeg or codec problem.
Same problem here on Gentoo with digikam 5.5.0.
> Are there any compile options or dependencies missing? > Afaik digikam has changed the video backend from QtMultimedia to QtAV which > means that they are using ffmpeg now. > Unfortunately neither debian [1] nor ubuntu [2] currently ships QtAV, which is why digikam can't play videos even if ffmpeg works perfectly. Not sure about gentoo. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737016 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/digikam/+bug/1676484
Gentoo also hasn't got QtAV so far: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613146
Since Ubuntu Bionic ships QtAV, why the current digiKam 6.1.0 (installed deb package) in KDE Neon does not play video either?
The digikam built in Neon probably has to be adapted to compile against the QtAV dependency. 'ldd' on the libdigikamcore.so can show if it was built with QtAV dependency.
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Should be fixed in 6.3.0 in neon
Created attachment 122839 [details] Digikam 6.3.0 components information (In reply to Jonathan Riddell from comment #8) > Should be fixed in 6.3.0 in neon I can not confirm, unfortunately. (screenshot) I have both digiKam (6.3.0-0xneon+18.04+bionic+build30) and libqtav1 (1.12.0+ds-4build3) packages installed from KDE Neon repos. Do I need to install/setup anything else?
It looks like digikam isn't built using -DENABLE_MEDIAPLAYER=ON
Three years later... any possibility to have QtAv support in KDE Neon in the upcoming digiKam 7.0? https://www.digikam.org/documentation/releaseplan/
You use official digiKam AppImage or Flatpak linux bundles which are both compiled with QtAV support... for AppImage, current 7.0.0 release candidate can be downloaded here : https://files.kde.org/digikam/ for Flatpak, use Plasma Discover and FlatHub repository: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/tree/master/project/bundles/flatpak Gilles Caulier
Thank you for the info about the Flatpak package, Gilles! I still hope in the upstream solution, though. The KDE Neon packagers might fix this.
qtav is a very special beast, trying to get it compiling in kde neon now..
try the version of digikam in neon today 4:7.1.0-0xneon+20.04+focal+build13 that was built with qtav again
Unfortunately, still no luck. Even with digiKam 4:7.1.0-0xneon+20.04+focal+build13 Do I need to install/setup additional packages? I have installed libqtav1 1.13.0+ds-1build2
i can confirm that this bug occurs for me too in digiKam 4:7.1.0-0xneon+20.04+focal+build13 Using the appimage for now, but display of fonts is a little blurry and its not as neatly integrated into plasma. but it works as a temporary solution.
I can confirm too. QTAV is available and installed, QMLPlayer works. Videos do not work in digikam Neon.
To get it working, simply add the ffmpeg dev libraries in the build dependency list and rebuild the package : libavcodec-dev, libavfilter-dev, libavformat-dev, libavutil-dev, libswscale-dev, libavdevice-dev, This has been made in the lates ubuntu packages, but not in neon yet.
Any chance this will be solved? Please? :-) I'm on testing, and at the moment we get an updated version but still no video support.
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Dear KDE Neon packagers, since the digiKam version 7.4 is almost ready <https://www.digikam.org/documentation/releaseplan/>, would be possible to add the ffmpeg dev libraries in the build dependency list, as mentioned in comment #19?
Version 7.5 is around the corner. Would be nice to have video support enabled. btw. the digikam appimage has video support but doesn't integrate very well: wrong fonts, wrong theme, ...
I think the build is missing ffmpeg libraries, I've added those in now https://invent.kde.org/neon/neon-packaging/digikam/commit/d1125437e8dc699a7e21cf111e6ebbd12107fcde
Now in user edition
(In reply to Jonathan Riddell from comment #25) > Now in user edition I confirm that video works now in kde user edition. Thanks!
Any chance this could be fixed for testing too? Thanks!
voila https://build.neon.kde.org/view/2%20stable%20%E2%98%A2%20git%20stable/job/focal_stable_neon-packaging_digikam/
Thank you!!!