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1. tadzik (tadzik@social.tadzik.net)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 17:50:57 JST tadzik

   I’m trying to view my pictures and videos from vacation on Linux. This is apparently too much to ask.

   I want a viewer that give me a slideshow-like experience with pictures and videos. This is very non-obvious apparently.

   Shotwell can do that apparently. I install it, run it, nothing happens. Before I start investigating, “Loading Shotwell pops up”. 0%, for minutes. Then 1%, then 2%. Surely it’s not…

   Yes it is. By default it indexes everything it can find, and it was crawling through my /mnt/nfs/ according to its sqlite3 database. Over wifi. Whose idea was this!?

   Let’s try digiKam instead. It’s KDE, so it should be better.

   On startup, it starts a too long configurator asking tons of questions. At least one of them is “import location”, so we have that. I finish the configurator… it crashes. I start it from the console. It crashes on trying to… load my keymap. What? Why are you trying to load the keymap at all!? Fuck digiKam.

   Let’s try shotwell again, this time I unmount NAS and all external drives. It starts up. It has a confusing preferences screen that does not include where to import from (it’s still “from everywhere” apparently!?), you can specify where to import to (what!?). The winning formula is a new empty directory called “test” as an “import photos to” (don’t worry, it will stay empty), and then manually import a directory you want to go through. Success, it loaded something! Both photos and videos!

   But when you enter the slideshow view, it only shows the photos. It skips the videos.

   Linux sucks.

   • Kuba Orlik (kuba@toot.kuba-orlik.name)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 17:50:55 JST Kuba Orlik

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     @tadzik Kodi is amazing for this task, highly recommend you give it a try!

   • Kuba Orlik (kuba@toot.kuba-orlik.name)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 18:31:46 JST Kuba Orlik

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     @tadzik the Pictures section handles videos just fine

   • tadzik (tadzik@social.tadzik.net)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 18:31:47 JST tadzik

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     • Kuba Orlik
     @kuba I see separate Pictures and Videos sections. Is there a way to go through both at once somehow?
   • Arkadiusz Wieczorek (arek@mastodon.internet-czas-dzialac.pl)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 04:55:39 JST Arkadiusz Wieczorek

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     @tadzik xnviewmp, I know it's not open-source but this is only thing which can handle my heavy RAW files on Linux

   • Arkadiusz Wieczorek (arek@mastodon.internet-czas-dzialac.pl)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 06:35:18 JST Arkadiusz Wieczorek

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     • brie

     @brie totally agree, I don't play with imports, it's a waste of time. Just viewing files @tadzik

   • brie (brie@venera.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 06:35:19 JST brie

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     • Arkadiusz Wieczorek

     @tadzik Bait post ;)

     Geeqie. No ”imports”, no database, just viewer (raws by embedded miniature only, videos as thumbnails, playable in external player). I use it to cull images, then import remaining ones to darktable do to the heavy lifting. And, @arek , its homepage features Smena ;)