ENVIRONMENT SETUP: A recently reinstalled Windows 11 Home, digikam 8.8 2 monitors connected to a dedicated GPU. STEPS: Starting in an album view. double click a video file. RESULT: The file plays for a second. Digikam window closes. There are no errors. ISSUE DETAILS When opening any of the same files via Explorer, the same files play just fine, using "mpc-be64.exe". The issue may be limited to certain video files. 100% reproducible for those same files. After each test-crash, ProcessExplorer shows a set of processes still running: C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\exiftool.exe C:\Windows\System32\conhost.exe C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\exiftool\tools\exiftool-13.33_64\exiftool.exe
Experiment with the video settings in the digiKam system settings. If you have an AMD GPU, disable color conversion; otherwise, try disabling video acceleration completely. Note that a digiKam restart is required after each change. These crashes are still caused by incompatibilities with video acceleration and FFmpeg and need to be resolved there. Maik
One more thing: you don't seem to be using ExifTool from digiKam. You should change that. Maik