In KDE 4 i would install ffmpegthumbnailer and kffmpegthumbnails or something like that. and I could get video previews I install ffmpegthumbnailer and when I try to install kffmpegthumbs I get an error no kde workspace dependencies not resolved. Honestly I shouldn't have to install anything to get this. Its should be a feature built in. however the developers were short sighted in this. I have tons of video files and not being a to preview them is very disheartening and about to make me search for a new desktop environment.

Currently running Fedora 22 with KDE 5 is there anyway I can get my previews?

Using Dolphin fm

Are you using the KDE4 Dolphin or the KF5 Dolphin ?
If you are using the KF5 Dolphin - Have you tried the ffmpegthumbs frameworks version ?

The KDE video thumbnailer (ffmpegthumbs) has been ported to the KF5:

- https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118545/
- http://marc.info/?t=140191905200083&r=1&w=2
- https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/k ... frameworks

It should, at here it does, work with the frameworks Dolphin.

With the Kubuntu & Dolphin frameworks: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthrea ... post367642

KDE preview plugins: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthrea ... -thumbnail

thefrogargedion wrote:Honestly I shouldn't have to install anything to get this. Its should be a feature built in. however the developers were short sighted in this. I have tons of video files and not being a to preview them is very disheartening and about to make me search for a new desktop environment.

I understand that you are unhappy about the user experience, but please note that the distribution is responsible for selecting the packages which are installed by default. Dolphin itself does not contain thumbnailers for anything. Without additional packages, you will not even get thumbnails for images, and there isn't much that KDE can do about this without help from your distro.

I hope that the suggestions from the previous comment help you to find the necessary packages (if they don't, then you might want to ask in a forum for your distribution). If you want to improve the user experience for future users, you might want to ask your distro to include the necessary thumbnailers by default in the packages that are installed for KDE users.

Thanks for the info apparently ffmpegthumb did not show up in my repo's when I looked via command line but it did show in the graphical box so thanks for the great info I was unware of some of the info. I apologize

Got my thumbnails so I'm happy now

again thanks for your time and support