[KDE4 Dolphin] Video previews

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#1

I’ve installed KDE4.1 from Factory repo (working fine), however I cannot get dolphin to generate video thumbnails.
I also tried to install mplayerthumbs: MPlayerThumbs KDE-Apps.org
which I use it on KDE3 (great app), but it doesn’t seem to be working at all (compilation and installation went fine).

#2

Hello,
please try the following:

Extract mplayerthumbs and change to that directory, in my case /Desktop/mplayerthumbs-1.1 and change the path of the last command


horst@linux:~/Desktop/mplayerthumbs-1.1> export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt4                                                               
horst@linux:~/Desktop/mplayerthumbs-1.1> export KDEDIR=/usr    
horst@linux:~/Desktop/mplayerthumbs-1.1> export KDEDIRS=$KDEDIR
horst@linux:~/Desktop/mplayerthumbs-1.1> export KDE_BUILD=$KDEDIR                                                                  
horst@linux:~/Desktop/mplayerthumbs-1.1> export DBUSDIR=$KDEDIR
horst@linux:~/Desktop/mplayerthumbs-1.1> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$KDEDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH                            
horst@linux:~/Desktop/mplayerthumbs-1.1> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$DBUSDIR/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig                          
horst@linux:~/Desktop/mplayerthumbs-1.1> export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH                                                  
horst@linux:~/Desktop/mplayerthumbs-1.1> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDEDIR -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release /home/horst/Desktop/mplayerthumbs-1.1

then run make and make install.

Output should look like this (x86-64):

linux:/home/horst/Desktop/mplayerthumbs-1.1 # make install

 60%] Built target mplayerthumbsconfig
[100%] Built target videopreview
Linking CXX shared module CMakeFiles/CMakeRelink.dir/videopreview.so
Install the project...
-- Install configuration: "release"
-- Installing: /usr/lib64/kde4/videopreview.so
-- Installing: /usr/share/kde4/config.kcfg/mplayerthumbs.kcfg
-- Installing: /usr/share/kde4/services/videopreview.desktop
-- Installing: /usr/share/kde4/apps/videothumbnail/sprocket-small.png
-- Installing: /usr/share/kde4/apps/videothumbnail/sprocket-medium.png
-- Installing: /usr/share/kde4/apps/videothumbnail/sprocket-large.png
-- Installing: /usr/bin/mplayerthumbsconfig
linux:/home/horst/Desktop/mplayerthumbs-1.1 #

Hope that helps

#3

I already found out that I was using old prefix, just forgot to post the solution here.

It works superb (very fast thumbnail generation)!

#4

Do you have the information panel enabled in dolphin ?

The preview in that panel is really slow here, but i think that’s related to dolphin.

#5

@MonsterM: no, preview panel makes dolphin freeze on videos.
If you know how to fix this / or just disable video previews in that panel, please tell.

#6

Should be fixed in 4.1

‘Re: preview in dolphin is slow with many pictures’ - MARC](http://lists.kde.org/?l=kfm-devel&m=121233060925690&w=2)

#7

Bug was caused by strigi and is fixed with the latest update.

Very cool to see random previews in the info panel …