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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.
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.
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/
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!
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..
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??
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