Version: 0.7 (using KDE 3.3.1, (3.1)) Compiler: gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-3) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.9 My digital camera (Nikon 5200) can record movies. I would like digiKam to call a movie application such as KPlayer in order to play it in the same way as normal images are displayed in the Image Editor. It needn't be a movie editor, but just a component to view it. And in the album such movies are dosplayed with a blank page. What about grabbing the first frame and using it instead?
I have installed mplayer on my SuSE 9.1 system and I have setuped it as default player for movies (via konqueror). When I click on AVI file from my camera, digikam launches mplayer and play movie. But idea with first frame as preview is instresting, but I am not sure it will be easy to grab first frame.
I have here a gentoo system and use the latest cvs version of digikam, And it shows excatly what you want. The movies have the first frame as a preview and when I click on it they are played with the default movie player.
> But idea with first frame as preview is instresting, but I am not sure > it will be easy to grab first frame. KDE (Konqueror) can do this so I don't see the reason to be able to do this in digiKam. In fact it should be already available - just a matter of preview settings in KDE Control Center/Konqueror.
I think both my issues work now. a) use the first frame as thumbnail is OK b) use the default movie player is also OK. I close the ticket as resolved. Thanks for your comments!
digiKam 5.4.0 bundles will use QtAV framework instead Qt5Multimedia to thumb and play video. The Slideshow tool will also support video as well. QtAV use ffmpeg codecs. It's multi-platform and will always available in OSX, Windows and Linux bundles that digiKam team provide. For Linux packagers, you will need to turn on video support at compilation time and solve QtAV dependencies... The screenshot here : https://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/30886133553/in/dateposted-public/ ... is based on pre-release of AppImage 64 bits Linux bundle, just recompiled and post to GDrive for testing. The 32bits version is under process and will be available at the same place today evening. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWelRJenM