Hello guys,
I'm using kde 4.2 on ubuntu 4.2. I would like to have thumbnail video preview of my video using dolphin but I cannot get nothing running.
I've take a look at mplayerthumbs but I cannot compile it. I get this error msg:MakeFiles/videopreview.dir/videopreview.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTI12VideoPreview[typeinfo for VideoPreview]+0x18): undefined reference to `typeinfo for ThumbCreator'

Is there any "official" way to get video preview in dolphin ?

Thanks a lot

Bye Marcello

Try out the application "mplayerthumbs"

The KDE4 version of mplayerthumbs isn't available for Intrepid via the normal repos. You can get it from my PPA though:
https://launchpad.net/~echidnaman/+archive/ppa

JontheEchinda wrote:The KDE4 version of mplayerthumbs isn't available for Intrepid via the normal repos. You can get it from my PPA though:
https://launchpad.net/~echidnaman/+archive/ppa

Thanks a lot
following your suggestion now I've my video preview

Thanks again

Works here too

Works on Jaunty also Is in the default repo

For those with Mandriva:
http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=72134
For those with Arch:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=5870
For those curious about the issue:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162024

The KDE4 version of mplayerthumbs isn't available for Intrepid via the normal repos. You can get it from my PPA though:
https://launchpad.net/~echidnaman/+archive/ppa

Thanks for the Intrepid package... I am delighted to have my video previews back. I am wondering why a phonon plugin has not yet been developed for dolphin, however. Phonon's VideoWidget in KDE 4.2 added support for taking snapshots, so I would assume it would be easy to implement the plugin thumbnailer. The mplayer workaround is definitely usable, but it would be nice to see 100% KDE integration.

can anyone change /usr/bin/mplayerthumbsconfig to another name?
so it doenst compete with mplayer binary, if this is for kde.. why not kdethumbsconfig
its really annoying...

It uses MPlayer for its backend, hence it is called "mplayerthumbs" since it doesn't do anything KDE specific ( it simply produces an image which KDE then grabs and displays I think )