hello, I am a Debian v9 user, with digikam 5.3.0-1. Digikam does not display video thumbnails on my setup. The FAQ says to install packages libarts1-xine and/or libxine-extracodecs, but these packages are no longer available on recent Debian or Ubuntu distributions. Which package should I install? thanks, Damien
Which FAQ ? from the Web Site ? video thumbnail => we use qtAv => you need ffmpeg codecs. video support is optional at compilation time. Check in Help/Components Info dialog if this feature is listed. If not, report this problem as UPSTREAM to Debian team. NAyway, you want video thumbnails support in all case. Forget the DK from your system, and use the AppImage Linux bundle that we provide in download page. Gilles Caulier
Here is the FAQ url: https://www.digikam.org/documentation/FAQ/
As far as I understand, ffmpeg codecs are properly installed on my system. Or do I miss another package? $ dpkg -l ffmpeg* Souhait=inconnU/Installé/suppRimé/Purgé/H=à garder | État=Non/Installé/fichier-Config/dépaqUeté/échec-conFig/H=semi-installé/W=attend-traitement-déclenchements |/ Err?=(aucune)/besoin Réinstallation (État,Err: majuscule=mauvais) ||/ Nom Version Architecture Description +++-=========================-=================-=================-======================================================= ii ffmpeg 7:3.2.10-1~deb9u1 amd64 Tools for transcoding, streaming and playing of multime un ffmpeg-doc <aucune> <aucune> (aucune description n'est disponible) ii ffmpegthumbnailer 2.1.1-0.1+b3 amd64 fast and lightweight video thumbnailer ii ffmpegthumbs 4:16.08.3-1 amd64 video thumbnail generator using ffmpeg Here are the components listed from the Components info dialog in the Help menu: ----------------------------- digikam version 5.3.0 CPU cores: 4 Eigen: 3.3.0 Exiv2: 0.25 Exiv2 can write to Jp2: Oui Exiv2 can write to Jpeg: Oui Exiv2 can write to Pgf: Oui Exiv2 can write to Png: Oui Exiv2 can write to Tiff: Oui Exiv2 supports XMP metadata: Oui KF5: 5.27.0 LensFun: 0.3.2-0 LibCImg: 130 LibJPEG: 62 LibJasper support: Non LibLCMS: 2070 LibLqr support: Oui LibPGF: 7.15.32 LibPNG: 1.6.26 LibRaw: 0.18.0-Beta1 LibTIFF: LIBTIFF, Version 4.0.6 Copyright (c) 1988-1996 Sam Leffler Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Marble: 0.25.2 (stable release) Parallelized demosaicing: Oui Qt: 5.7.1 AkonadiContact support: Oui Calendar support: oui DBus support: Oui LibGphoto2: 2.5.16 LibKipi: 5.1.0 LibOpenCV: 2.4.9.1 Modules externes KIPI: 5.3.0 Moteur de base de données: QSQLITE Panorama support: oui Prise en charge de Baloo: Oui QtMultimedia support: Oui -----------------------------
I have downloaded version 5.8.0 in the AppImage Linux bundle, and video support works fine. I will report the issue to the Debian team. Thank you Gilles for your feedback, and thank you all for the hard work on this very nice application!
FYI, Issue already reported here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834131 thanks
Git commit c445cf90a4a287a8cb58855da139aa97bbbd41ed by Gilles Caulier. Committed on 14/02/2018 at 19:37. Pushed by cgilles into branch 'dev'. Fix FAQ about video thumbs support plus more fixes FIXED-IN: 5.9.0 M +10 -27 content/documentation/FAQ.md https://commits.kde.org/websites/digikam-org/c445cf90a4a287a8cb58855da139aa97bbbd41ed
Note : since DK > 5.3.0, we left QtMultimedia + GStreamer in favors of QtAV + FFMpeg. This last one is more portable and do not have plenty of run-time dependencies. All codecs are provided de facto...