found 834131 digikam/4:5.2.0-3 thanks Hi Steven,
now I get: digikam.general: scan mode: ScanDeferredFiles digikam.general: total scan value : 47779 digikam.database: items to tag () digikam.database: Complete scan took: 1060 msecs. digikam.general: Event is dispatched through a passive pop-up QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to QWidget "", which already has a layout digikam.metaengine: Cannot load metadata from file (Error # 11 : /[…]/MVI_somenumber.AVI: The file contains data of an unknown image type digikam.general: Trying to load Embedded preview with libraw digikam.rawengine: Failed to load embedded RAW preview digikam.general: Trying to load half preview with libraw digikam.general: Trying to load Embedded preview with Exiv2 digikam.metaengine: Cannot load metadata using Exiv2 (Error # 11 : /[…]/MVI_somenumber.AVI: The file contains data of an unknown image type digikam.dimg: "/[…]/MVI_somenumber.AVI" : QIMAGE file identified digikam.dimg.qimage: Can not load " "/[…]/MVI_somenumber.AVI" " using DImg::QImageLoader! digikam.general: mimetype = "" ext = "AVI" digikam.general: Cannot create thumbnail for "/[…]/MVI_somenumber.AVI" digikam.general: Thumbnail is null for "/[…]/MVI_somenumber.AVI" digikam.general: Request to get thumbnail for "/[…]/MVI_somenumber.AVI" digikam.general: Video monitoring is not available. digikam.general: Failed to extract video thumbnail for "/[…]/MVI_somenumber.AVI" for the thumbnail and digikam.general: Stacked View Mode : 6 digikam.general: Error: "Das QMediaPlayer-Objekt hat keinen gültigen Dienst" digikam.metaengine: Cannot load metadata from file (Error # 11 : /[…]/MVI_somenumber.AVI: The file contains data of an unknown image type digikam.general: Trying to load Embedded preview with libraw digikam.rawengine: Failed to load embedded RAW preview digikam.general: Trying to load half preview with libraw digikam.general: Trying to load Embedded preview with Exiv2 digikam.metaengine: Cannot load metadata using Exiv2 (Error # 11 : /[…]/MVI_somenumber.AVI: The file contains data of an unknown image type digikam.dimg: "/[…]/MVI_somenumber.AVI" : QIMAGE file identified digikam.dimg.qimage: Can not load " "/[…]/MVI_somenumber.AVI" " using DImg::QImageLoader! digikam.general: mimetype = "" ext = "AVI" digikam.general: Cannot create thumbnail for "/[…]/MVI_somenumber.AVI" digikam.general: Thumbnail is null for "/[…]/MVI_somenumber.AVI" digikam.general: Request to get thumbnail for "/[…]/MVI_somenumber.AVI" digikam.general: Video monitoring is not available. digikam.general: Failed to extract video thumbnail for "/[…]/MVI_somenumber.AVI" digikam.general: Stacked View Mode : 6 digikam.general: Error: "Das QMediaPlayer-Objekt hat keinen gültigen Dienst" when I click the video for playing it. "Das QMediaPlayer-Objekt hat keinen gültigen Dienst" means "the qmediaplayer object does not have a valid service". I don´t know whether there is some package missing: martin@merkaba:~> dpkg -l | grep qt | grep multimedia | cut -c 1-72 ii libphonon4qt5-4:amd64 4:4.9.0-4 ii libphonon4qt5-dev 4:4.9.0-4 ii libqt5multimedia5:amd64 5.6.1-2 ii libqt5multimediaquick-p5:amd64 5.6.1-2 ii libqt5multimediawidgets5:amd64 5.6.1-2 ii phonon4qt5:amd64 4:4.9.0-4 ii qml-module-qtmultimedia:amd64 5.6.1-2 ii vlc-plugin-qt:amd64 2.2.4-7 Thank you, -- Martin