No video previews in konqueror

yapp · 03-09-2005, 04:14 PM

I noticed SuSE doesn't display thumbnails for video files, but I also can't find the option to enable this. How can I enable this feature in SuSE 9.2? Other distro's seam to have it available out of the box.

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 03-09-2005, 05:47 PM

Have a look under View-->Preview and place a check mark against Video Files

yapp · 03-10-2005, 01:59 AM

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Originally posted by {BBI}Nexus{BBI}
Have a look under View-->Preview and place a check mark against Video Files

That's exactly the point.. That option doesn't exist at my system!

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 03-10-2005, 01:28 PM

I'm not sure if you have a Control Center in SuSE, if you do try looking at Components-->File Manager, options for Previews & Metadata are there.

yapp · 03-10-2005, 02:16 PM

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Originally posted by {BBI}Nexus{BBI}
I'm not sure if you have a Control Center in SuSE, if you do try looking at Components-->File Manager, options for Previews & Metadata are there.

That's not the problem. I have previews for images, text files, even sound files! The missing option is "Video files" other distro's have that kfile_ plugin installed by default, I don't know what package I need to install to get it working in SuSE.

SaguratuS · 03-17-2005, 05:55 PM

Same problem here, just got kde3.4, and rebuilt my entire system. Everything was working nicely with 3.3

Anyone have any ideas?

SaguratuS · 03-19-2005, 01:58 AM

Well, I tracked it back to videothumbnail, which seems to be included with kde 3.3, but not with 3.4.

Solution:
If you have an old kde 3.3 installation -
cp /usr/kde/3.3/lib/kde3/videothumbnail* /usr/kde/3.4/lib/kde3/
cp -R /usr/kde/3.3/share/apps/videothumbnail /usr/kde/3.4/share/apps/
cp /usr/kde/3.3/share/services/videothumbnail.desktop /usr/kde/3.4/share/services/

Hope this helps, working nicely here.

OhMyAchingGut · 04-13-2005, 07:26 AM

I had the same exact problem. After being told by several people that grabbing the old versions made no sense, i checked my Yast sources. Sure enough, I'd forgotten and only left the DVD as a source. Libxine wasn't installed because it couldn't find Speex...so no video in konqueror, as it was using those libaries.

Added an online and updated official SuSE repository, alone with Packman, and sure enough it found Speex, installed libxine, and i've got the video previews option back!

yapp · 04-13-2005, 04:04 PM

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Originally posted by OhMyAchingGut
I had the same exact problem. After being told by several people that grabbing the old versions made no sense, i checked my Yast sources. [...]

Added an online and updated official SuSE repository, alone with Packman, and sure enough it found Speex, installed libxine, and i've got the video previews option back!

I have speex and libxine1 installed from packman too, but no video previews..

I didn't have video previews in KDE 3.3 either.

Amon80 · 10-28-2005, 12:04 PM

I had the same problem with SUSE 10.0. The solution, for me, was very simple.

Using YAST, install the package kdemultimedia3-video-xine. It's the one used to generate the thumbnails.

Hope it works for you too.

malcom80 · 07-25-2006, 05:07 AM

Thank you Amon80.
I have fixed the problem in Suse + kde,
but i have still no video preview in Ubuntu + gnome.
Do you know the package to install in Ubuntu-gnome for video previews??

Thanks

malcom

Amon80 · 09-07-2006, 08:26 AM

I don't now. In my Dapper Drake this feature worked out-of-the-box. Do you use totem-gstreamer or totem-xine?

Btw, look at this page. Maybe it is useful, even if it is a bit old:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=3307

Bye!