libqtav opt >= 1.12.0 http://www.qtav.org To play video and audio (ENABLE_MEDIAPLAYER=on)
libffmpeg opt >= 3.3.x http://www.ffmpeg.org To play video and audio (ENABLE_MEDIAPLAYER=on), libavformat, libavutil, libavcodec used to extract video metadata
ffmpeg can't be packaged for Fedora official packages.
digikam can be built with qtav/ffmpeg for audio/video mediaplayer support.
Fedora doesn't ship FFMPEG, so their digikam package doesn't use it.
yes & yes.
digikam is currently built for Fedora 35/36:
but, @ spec
explicitly DISABLES mediaplayer support,
required for video/audio thumbnail/player support
digikam's MEDIAPLAYER support requires
optional deps of
libqtav
&libffmpeg
ffmpeg
can't be packaged for Fedora official packages.but is already available/installed
from