Comment 5 for bug 1982775

Hi Erich,

The solution for you is to use 7.x as well. If ffmpeg 5.x is present, the Media Player support will be disabled at configuration time. Of course you will not able to play with video files (aka thumbnails and preview will be unavailable).

For 8.x, the plan is to release before end of this year and if projects advance well, to include the both GoSC 2022 tasks in this release. We will see.

https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2022/Ideas#digiKam

8.x will be also compatible with Qt 6, but i do not recommend to use Qt6 for the moment. 8.x will be compatible with Qt5 LTS, so this version rock well.

About the 8.x pending list bugs, we have the famous Media Player code to finalize with ffmpeg 5.x, and other regression checks to verify. For ex, we will progressively switch metadata write operations to ExifTool instead Exiv2, as this last library break regression tests more and more. ExifTool write feature have been introduced in 8.x only. We need to check performances and suitability.

Don't forget the bundles that we provide, as AppImage which still compiled with ffmpeg 4.x. There are 2 versions: one build by the team, other one build with KDE infrastructure.

The first one is provided since a very long time and is very powerful and complete. It's based on 7.x code.

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

The second one need to be finalized as it do not support Mysql/mariadb database. It based on 8.x code. Some links:

https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/AppImage/job/Digikam_Nightly_appimage-centos7/

Best

Gilles Caulier