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sumeet inani 02-27-2009 12:42 AM
thumbnail for video files
 
Hello,
I am using openSUSE 10.3.I play my video files using mplayer which I installed from tarball & necessary codecs.I can play my video files from command line nicely.Only one problem there are no thumbnail of any video file.Does anybody which software should I install so that thumbnail appear for video file in my nautilus file browser.The default player for GNOME desktop environment is totem which require internet connection to play file while my computer has no internet connection that is why I don't do anything with totem as it always says particular codec needed to play any audio or video file.

jay73 02-27-2009 12:56 AM
Thumbnails are created by totem. If you don't want/need totem, you can install ffmpegthumbnailer as an alternative; it works well but does not seem capable of handling all the formats that totem can.

sumeet inani 03-04-2009 12:21 AM
to jay73,
I unzipped the ffmpeg-checkout-snapshot.tar.bz2 in /home/lxuser then did ./configure,make & make install and no errors occured.

When I ./configure for ffmpegthumbnailer then following error occurs

checking for FFMPEG... no
configure: error: +Could not find ffmpeg. Please update PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point at location of ffmpeg pkgconfig files directory.

when I run ffmpeg i get following output
FFmpeg version SVN-r17747, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration:
libavutil 49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
libavcodec 52.20. 0 / 52.20. 0
libavformat 52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
built on Mar 3 2009 22:17:16, gcc: 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)
At least one output file must be specified

So what Should I do?

jay73 03-04-2009 01:48 AM
Try running export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=path_to_ffmpeg_pkgconfig before ./configure (you'll need to determine the exact path yourself, I cannot help you there).

sumeet inani 03-06-2009 12:02 AM
As mentioned before I had extracted ffmpeg tarball in directory /home/lxuser/.
so configure file is present in /home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03
then I ran
export PKG_CONFIG=/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03
echo $PKG_CONFIG --to verify
./configure still gave this error

checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... ./configure: line 15989: /home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03: is a directory
no
checking for FFMPEG... configure: error: +Could not find ffmpeg. Please update PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point at location of ffmpeg pkgconfig files directory.

Where I am going wrong?

jay73 03-06-2009 12:45 AM
Pkg_config_path

Edit: the above needs to be all uppercase; for some reason uppercase gets converted to lowercase when my message is submitted. ????

sumeet inani 03-16-2009 11:43 PM
AS YOU HAVE SAID i DID
linux-goap:/home/lxuser/ffmpegthumbnailer-1.3.0 #export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03"
linux-goap:/home/lxuser/ffmpegthumbnailer-1.3.0 # echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
STILL NOW
./configure of ffmpegthumbnailer gave following error
/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03
checking for FFMPEG... no
configure: error: +Could not find ffmpeg. Please update PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point at location of ffmpeg pkgconfig files directory.
QUESTION
I have given the path of folder where I unzipped the tarball.
I also tried export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/bin".Still error remains.

sumeet inani 03-23-2009 01:22 AM
Asking everybody
 
I am using openSUSE 10.3.
I have extracted ffmpeg tarball in /home/lxuser/ffmpeg-0.5/ directory and installed it successfully.
here is the error I get when I run "./configure" for ffmpegthumbnailer

checking for FFMPEG... no
configure: error: +Could not find ffmpeg. Please update PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point at location of ffmpeg pkgconfig files directory.
QUESTION
What should I give in PKG_CONFIG_PATH for thumbnailer.
NOTE
(1)I have tried export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-0.5
(2)I have tried export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PATH

sumeet inani 04-03-2009 07:21 AM
I am asking the above question again titled 'asking everybody'.
PLEASE somebody give an answer.

jay73 04-03-2009 08:13 AM
Check /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib to find out whether a pc file was created during compilation.

sumeet inani 04-23-2009 01:04 AM
/usr/lib & /usr/local/lib contain lot of .pc files but none of them start with ff
The folder in which ffmpeg tarball was extracted has
/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libavcodec/libavcodec.pc
/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libavcodec/libavcodec-uninstalled.pc
/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libavformat/libavformat.pc
/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libavformat/libavformat-uninstalled.pc
/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libavfilter/libavfilter-uninstalled.pc
/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libavfilter/libavfilter.pc
/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libswscale/libswscale.pc
/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libswscale/libswscale-uninstalled.pc
/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libavutil/libavutil-uninstalled.pc
/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libavutil/libavutil.pc
/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libavdevice/libavdevice.pc
/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libavdevice/libavdevice-uninstalled.pc
/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libpostproc/libpostproc.pc
/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libpostproc/libpostproc-uninstalled.pc
So I gave following command
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libavcodec:/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libavformat:/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libavfilter:/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libavutil:/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libswscale:/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libavdevice:/home/lxuser/ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03/libpostproc
Then make './configure' gave no error but 'make' gave following error
moviedecoder.cpp:28:28: error: ffmpeg/swscale.h: No such file or directory
moviedecoder.cpp: In member function ‘void MovieDecoder::convertAndScaleFrame(int, int, bool, int&, int&)’:
moviedecoder.cpp:306: error: ‘SwsContext’ was not declared in this scope
moviedecoder.cpp:306: error: ‘scaleContext’ was not declared in this scope
moviedecoder.cpp:308: error: ‘SWS_BICUBIC’ was not declared in this scope
moviedecoder.cpp:308: error: ‘sws_getContext’ was not declared in this scope
moviedecoder.cpp:320: error: ‘sws_scale’ was not declared in this scope
moviedecoder.cpp:321: error: ‘sws_freeContext’ was not declared in this scope
make[2]: *** [moviedecoder.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/lxuser/ffmpegthumbnailer-1.3.0/src/libffmpegthumbnailer'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lxuser/ffmpegthumbnailer-1.3.0/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

jay73 04-23-2009 12:44 PM
Is that a brand new version of ffmpeg you downloaded. Looking at the error messages, I get the impression that it is a coding issue.

sumeet inani 04-25-2009 01:07 AM
Asking everybody
 
ASKING EVERYBODY
Can anybody tell me the version of ffmpegthumbnailer which you have installed & had no problem also tell the value of variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH alongwith the version of ffmpeg you installed.

repo 04-25-2009 01:16 AM
Just a thought, did you enabled preview in nautilus ?

sumeet inani 04-26-2009 08:12 AM
Actually
I have installed ffmpeg successfully but there is no file called ffmpeg.pc but there are few .pc files in extracted tarball so I gave them in PKG_CONFIG_PATH and './configure' reported no errors but make gave errors told above.

repo 04-26-2009 08:24 AM
Quote:
SO IS THERE ANYBODY WHO HAS INSTALLED FFMPEGTHUMBNAILER WITH TARBALL?IF YES,PLEASE SEE MY QUESTION IN PREVIOUS POST ON THIS THREAD.
With this attitude you will be ignored.

sumeet inani 05-27-2009 05:55 AM
Sorry, I was neither desperate nor furious just I wanted to highlight my question (that is why in CAPITAL , didn't know it meant screaming) and was searching for one who has installed it from tarball.
I wanted to simply ask that
How to see thumbnail for video in nautilus file browser of GNOME in openSUSE 10.3.For example I came to know that mpg123 is needed for music preview of audio files using which when i hover my mouse over audio file it begins to play till mouse remains over it.So what is needed for thumbnail preview of video files.

sumeet inani 05-28-2009 05:54 AM
to jay73,
Can you tell which version of ffmpegthumbnailer you have used and while installing from tarball what steps have to be executed.

sumeet inani 05-31-2009 10:37 PM
I got ffmpegthumbnailer rpm from http://gnupg.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/Linux...suse/10.3/src/
Then I ran following command
#rpm -i ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.2-0.pm.1.src.rpm
Output was
warning: 10.3ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.2-0.pm.1.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 9a795806
Does this mean that ffmpegthumbnailer has been installed ?

repo 06-01-2009 01:32 AM
To install a src.rpm
Code:
rpm --rebuild ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.2-0.pm.1.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPM/
rpm -iv ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.2-0.pm.1.rpm

sumeet inani 06-03-2009 11:12 PM
As told I ran
#rpm --rebuild 10.3ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.2-0.pm.1.src.rpm
OUTPUT --rebuild: unknown option
Then from 'rpm --help' I came to know that '--rebuilddb means rebuild database inverted lists from installed package headers'
QUESTION)Is this same as rebuild you have suggested
When I run
#rpm -iv --nosignature --nodigest 10.3ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.2-0.pm.1.src.rpm
OUTPUT ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.2-0.pm.1
But there is no file named 'ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.2-0.pm.1.rpm' on whole system.
I found tarball present within rpm(because when I double click on this .src.rpm it opens like a zip file & shows a tarball..spec file present inside.) inside folder /usr/src/packages/SOURCES .
QUESTION)What shoud I do?

repo 06-03-2009 11:26 PM
try
Code:
rpmbuild --rebuild pakagename

sumeet inani 10-14-2009 08:20 AM
To jay73
Can you tell me how to instruct nautilus to create thumbnail for video files using ffmpegthumbnailer.


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