Git commit 0efbde8e33f3769677e5f1baaa3e0991643ea61d by Gilles Caulier. Committed on 04/09/2016 at 10:00. Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'.
add more explaination about video support M +33 -20 digikam/intro-movieformats.docbook http://commits.kde.org/digikam-doc/0efbde8e33f3769677e5f1baaa3e0991643ea61d diff --git a/digikam/intro-movieformats.docbook b/digikam/intro-movieformats.docbook index 899bdb5..5955d6d 100644 --- a/digikam/intro-movieformats.docbook +++ b/digikam/intro-movieformats.docbook @@ -1,34 +1,47 @@ <sect1 id="using-movieformats"> <title>Supported Movie Formats</title> - <sect2> <title>Introduction</title> - - <para> - Many digital cameras support taking of short movie clips. - These clips are usually stored in AVI or MP4 format. - &digikam; understands metadata from these formats and will generate - thumbnails for the movie files. - However, &digikam; is not a movie editing application and it does not have any - built-in movie viewing or editing capabilities. - If you double click on a movie file &digikam; you can preview video - or choose a viewing application through your desktop settings. - </para> + <sect2> + <title>Introduction</title> + + <para> + Many digital cameras support taking of short movie clips. + These clips are usually stored in AVI or MP4 format. + &digikam; understands metadata from these formats and will generate + thumbnails for the movie files. + </para> + + <para> + However, &digikam; is not a movie editing application and it does not have any + built-in movie viewing or editing capabilities. + If you double click on a movie file &digikam; you can preview video + or choose a viewing application through your desktop settings. + </para> </sect2> - <sect2> <title>Video Formats</title> + <sect2> + <title>Video Formats</title> + + <para> + &digikam; relies on <ulink url="http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/multimediaoverview.html";>Qt5 Multimedia framework</ulink> to handle video files. + You must take a care to have installed all parts of this frameworks on your computer, and expecially the multimedia plugins interface. + This framework will able to play video files depending on the availability of video codecs + installed on your system. &digikam; do not include extra video codec. This codecs are loaded on demand at running time. + </para> <para> - &digikam; relies on Qt5Multimedia framework to handle video files. - This framework will able to play video files depending on the availability of video codec - installed on your system. &digikam; do not include extra video codec. - On Linux desktop, this framework will use GStreamer backend. - On other desktop operating system, you will need to install extra video codecs. + On Linux desktop, this framework will use GStreamer backends. You need to install GStreamer plugins named "Good", "Bad" and "Ugly", + to be sure that all video formats will be handled by Qt5 Multimedia interface. </para> - + + <para> + On other desktop operating system, you will need to install extra video codecs, as KLite Codec Pack for <ulink url="http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm";>Microsoft Windows</ulink> or for <ulink url="http://www.techisky.com/tips/k-lite-codec-pack-for-mac.html";>Apple MacOS</ulink>. + </para> + </sect2> </sect1> - + <!-- Local Variables: mode: sgml
