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#1 2010-01-05 11:00:27

alphazo
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[SOLVED] [DidiKam] How can I get video thumbnails?

I use DigiKam 1.0 from Extra under Xfce and it works fine. However it doesn't show video thumbnails.

According to http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/143, DigiKam should be able to handle it:

Digikam uses KDE to generate thumbnails and KDE rely on aRts to do that.
So, you should check your aRts configuration. ARts can use xine plugin for video files, so try if xine is able to play your video files. You may have to use additional codecs (eg libxine-extracodecs on debian/ubuntu if you already have libarts1-xine) for that.
Try also to play your video files using xine (if libarts1-xine is installed).
Remember that if it doesn't work in konqueror, it won't work in digikam...

I couldn't find anything related to aRts in Yaourt. I installed xine but that didn't help.

Is there a simple way to add video thumbnails on DigiKam when running XfCE?

Alphazo

Last edited by alphazo (2010-01-05 14:05:08)

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#2 2010-01-05 12:14:15

registeringsucks
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Registered: 2009-04-27
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Re: [SOLVED] [DidiKam] How can I get video thumbnails?

this part on their website is terribly outdated. ARts was used for KDE3, KDE4 uses Phonon. Do you have mplayerthumbs installed?

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#3 2010-01-05 13:33:50

alphazo
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Re: [SOLVED] [DidiKam] How can I get video thumbnails?

You are the man!  cool

pacman -S kdemultimedia-mplayerthumbs

did the trick. I can now see the thumbnails. Now when I right click on one thumbnail I can select a video player and play the movie fine. However if I left click on a video I get an error message from the built-in video player?

Is there any additional package to add in order to use the built-in media player for AVCHD Lite movies?

Thanks again.
Alphazo

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#4 2010-01-05 13:56:00

registeringsucks
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Re: [SOLVED] [DidiKam] How can I get video thumbnails?

Did you select the phonon-xine backend in systemsettings?

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#5 2010-01-05 14:04:51

alphazo
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Re: [SOLVED] [DidiKam] How can I get video thumbnails?

I don't think I have KDE system settings on my XfCE machine. However

sudo pacman -S phonon-xine

worked!  I have now video thumbnails and built-in media player.

Thank you very much for the quick answers
Alphazo

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#6 2010-01-05 14:36:22

registeringsucks
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Re: [SOLVED] [DidiKam] How can I get video thumbnails?

you might not hava a menu entry, however you could just run "systemsettings" in a terminal.
Anyway, glad it helped

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