When viewing short videos/GIFs within Digikam they tend to play quickly once and then go to a black preview window until you manually restart the animation. I propose adding in a toggle to allow the user to toggle if the current video/animation they are viewing loops or if it ends after it is done it's current playthrough.
Git commit 146609c32e61e7138eba8cf61c4cfdd1524d567e by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 04/03/2019 at 19:20. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. add button for loop video playback FIXED-IN: 6.1.0 M +2 -1 NEWS M +28 -2 core/libs/video/player/mediaplayerview.cpp M +1 -0 core/libs/video/player/mediaplayerview.h M +4 -2 core/libs/video/player/slidevideo.cpp https://commits.kde.org/digikam/146609c32e61e7138eba8cf61c4cfdd1524d567e
Note: The QtAV framework we use for playback has a repeat function for videos. But it can come to a brief dark phase and this may not look good when playing GIF files. This may also depend on the FFmpeg version used. Maik