No Video & Picture Thumbnails

smithark · February 4, 2012, 7:18am

hello,
I had installed the “kdemultimedia4 - kdemultimedia base package” to enable the thumbnails for video. But now, the thumbnails does not appear for both pic and video files. i checked the settings in Dolphin, previews have been enabled and i have entered the max file size as ‘9004 MB’. I checked the repo and the above mentioned package seems to have disappeared. I can find only “kdemultimedia4-thumbnailers”. will this package reappear in the repo? or is there any other way to enable thumbnails?

caf4926 · February 4, 2012, 8:33am

in dolphin > settings > general > previews

Do you have check box ticked there for thumbs?

martin_helm · February 4, 2012, 2:48pm

For me it works, I have kdegraphics-thumbnailers and kffmpegthumbnailer
installed.

smithark · February 4, 2012, 6:39pm

yup. see my 'configure dolphin window:

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@ martin_helm,
is your setting different?

martin_helm · February 4, 2012, 7:07pm

Am 04.02.2012 18:46, schrieb smithark:
> @ martin_helm,
> is your setting different?
>
Only difference is I have not 9999 set but less. Your setting looks ok.
No idea why it works here (I checked on 12.1) but not for you. Did you
check that your codecs and ffmpeg are from packman?

caf4926 · February 4, 2012, 8:13pm

yup. see my 'configure dolphin window:
I only have either or of those checked, not both.

martin_helm · February 4, 2012, 8:22pm

Am 04.02.2012 20:16, schrieb caf4926:
>
>> yup. see my 'configure dolphin window:I only have either or of those checked, not both.
>
>
Ooops, how could I miss that both are checked in that image, in 12.1 I
have not even the Mplayer thumbnailer installed, I focused too much on
the checkbox for the ffmpeg thumbnailer.

smithark · February 5, 2012, 3:24am

ok, it worked! i uninstalled the mplayer thumb and installed kffmpegthumbnailer (only kdegraphics-thumbnailers was installed) and logged out and back in. thanks a lot caf4926 & martin_helm

smithark · February 5, 2012, 3:46am

sorry, but one more doubt. the thumbnails i have at present is different. in the one i used to have, preview used to change on mouse hover (like a slideshow), but not in this one. which package should i install for that? that was way much more cool.
i am posting a screenshot of the related packages currently installed in my system:
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caf4926 · February 5, 2012, 5:20am

I’m seeing that same issue
Also if you have the Information panel in dolphin, when you have a video in focus you should get a mini mplayer control to play the video in the panel, but it’s not there.

My videos don’t cycle thru frames on hover either.

smithark · February 6, 2012, 5:26am

do you know what happened to the “kdemultimedia4 - kdemultimedia base package”? i really miss that cycle through frame feature and there was much more elegance in thumbnail presentation when compared to “kffmpegthumbnailer”

caf4926 · February 6, 2012, 5:34am

No.

I will look in to this though

smithark · February 6, 2012, 8:38am

thank you. waiting for your reply…

caf4926 · February 6, 2012, 10:46am

I’m working through the mailing list so don’t hold your breath

weighty_foe · February 6, 2012, 12:24pm

Subbing in

caf4926 · February 6, 2012, 3:09pm

I might see the problem
Go to software Management and try switching on Packman. One of the dependency issues is the thumbs package, amongst others.
The packman packages are built to the 12.1 kde release 4.7.2 not 4.8 - Hence the issue think.

smithark · February 21, 2012, 2:13am

@ caf4926,
did you try the above? has there been any other improvement?

caf4926 · February 21, 2012, 6:06am

Thanks for reminding me. There is still an issue with this. At least I don’t see it working properly. Thought the ‘Play’ in the ‘Information’ panel is back. But not the frame cycling on hover.
However, the biggest issue I see is. If I open dolphin on a dir with lots of videos (and hence thumbnails) the HD goes in to spaz mode and takes about 10 seconds to calm down as all the thumbnails refresh.
Theoretically, all the thumbnails (except new ones to the mix) should be cached. And I do see them in the hidden .thumbnails
A complication to this is, that the severity is usually greatest at first boot and first use of dolphin or if the machine has been left for some hours running but unused. \Open dolphin in either of these cases and it has it’s little moment.

smithark · February 21, 2012, 9:56am

thanks for the reply. i will wait till the issue is solved.