Bug 1415498 (digikam_qtav)

Summary:	Media support not enabled
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	nicofo <nicofo>
Component:	digikam	Assignee:	Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	24	CC:	alekcejk, bugzilla, camico, flo, gomi, me, rdieter, smparrish, than, thomas.schnetzer
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Description nicofo 2017-01-22 17:11:40 UTC

Description of problem:

Digikam 5.4 has been released for Fedora, but the Media support is not enabled for Fedora 24.
In Help > Component Information, "Media Player Support" is "No".
From this version, Digikam now uses QtAV framework for video support.
Video support is a compilation option.

(same problem for Fedora 25: see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375399 )

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2017-01-22 18:39:57 UTC

Cantfix unfortunately, upstream choice of using qtav (and nonfree dependencies) prevent s the feature being in Fedora

Comment 2 nicofo 2017-01-23 22:09:41 UTC

Hi,
could you give please more information about this ("qtav prevents the feature being in Fedora") ? I see that qtav is a free project.

Providing only a part of Digikam, without video capabilities, makes it not very interesting for a lot of people. What is the alternative to have a full version of Digikam on Fedora ?

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2017-01-24 01:11:50 UTC

See this post:
https://plus.google.com/+GillesCaulier/posts/L2Q2ke8h6Ze

where I commented that their reliance on a patent-encumbered library (ffmpeg), makes this feature not shippable in many distros (including fedora)

Comment 4 nicofo 2017-01-25 19:41:31 UTC

OK, thanks for the info.
Would it be possible to provide digikam from rpmfusion repository (that already provides ffmpeg and qtav) ?

(Probably it is not the right place to ask this. But providing a limited version of digikam is of course not a nice solution. Something must well be done otherwise Fedora will loose a great software).

Comment 5 Rex Dieter 2017-01-25 19:52:10 UTC

possible maybe... practical... not sure if it's worth all the extra work just for this single feature.

Now, if digikam provided that feature as an easy-addon plugin that could be installed extra... easy peasy.  (but I'm pretty sure that is not how it is currently implemented).

I encourage you to direct your (hopefully constructive) feedback to digikam upstream... I have given them mine in the thread above already.

Comment 6 Rex Dieter 2017-01-27 21:16:55 UTC

*** Bug 1415586 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Rex Dieter 2017-02-27 00:10:29 UTC

*** Bug 1426955 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Rex Dieter 2018-02-19 03:21:24 UTC

*** Bug 1546456 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Rex Dieter 2020-07-06 15:24:04 UTC

*** Bug 1854143 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Florian Achleitner 2023-03-19 07:57:38 UTC

A simple workaround is installing digiKam through flatpak. I just tried that with 7.9.0 and media support is enabled in this build.