I'm using openSUSE 12.2 with KDE 4.8.5. After installing the restricted formats from the packman repository (to play mp3, mp4, avi, mpeg and other video formats) I wanted to make Dolphin able to display thumbnails for all of them when Preview is enabled. For some reason it fails however. Restricted formats aren't the only ones, since ogv videos also don't generate previews.

What I read I should do is installing a library called ffmpegthumbnailer which I did. I then went to Configure Dolphin - Previews and looked for mp4 / avi / mpeg in the list. The website said those options should be there, but I'm not seeing them. How do I get Dolphin to communicate with this library and allow me to enable thumbnails for video files?

I'm also more issues of this sort; I wanna see the icons of exe files like in Windows (prettier and more clean). In Configure Dolphin - Previews, I enabled the Microsoft Windows Executables checkbox, but that didn't get it working. Anything else I should be doing here? bmp and tga aren't workint either... can they also be fixed?

is Dolphin -> View -> Preview checked?

Do you see previews for any file types?

google01103 wrote:is Dolphin -> View -> Preview checked?

Do you see previews for any file types?

Sure, previews are enabled. I see them well for png jpg and gif images, but that's the only thing they work for currently.

do you have libffmpegthumbnailer4 installed? should have been installed with ffmpegthumbnailer

you can also try kde-mplayer-thumbnailer

google01103 wrote:do you have libffmpegthumbnailer4 installed? should have been installed with ffmpegthumbnailer

you can also try kde-mplayer-thumbnailer

I have libffmpegthumbnailer4 installed. kde-mplayer-thumbnailer doesn't appear in my repositories.

could be that it was not included in the repos until 4.9, but it is the 4.9 desktop repo

google01103 wrote:could be that it was not included in the repos until 4.9, but it is the 4.9 desktop repo

Not sure. I included them from the Packman repository, mpeg being a restricted format and all. But from what I understood installing that package should have made the option appear in the preview settings of Dolphin. Can it be fixed until the new KDE / Dolphin versions?

I was referring to kde-mplayer-thumbnailer, I don't see it in the Packman repo

is this a new install or an upgrade? if upgrade is ~/ from a previous install?

can you try as a new user?

google01103 wrote:I was referring to kde-mplayer-thumbnailer, I don't see it in the Packman repo

is this a new install or an upgrade? if upgrade is ~/ from a previous install?

can you try as a new user?

I see it in repository http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_12.2 If you mean upgrade, I have upgraded from openSUSE 12.1 to 12.2 last week, currently at KDE 4.8.5. If it requires a new user I might try later if anything... maybe I'll try a fresh Dolphin configuration (new settings folder).

before you upgraded did you have the issue with thumbnails not showing? it helps to know if the problem was caused by the upgrade

creating a new user shows that the problem is or isn't caused by something in your current config

If it still does not work under a new user, can you try running Dolphin from a terminal and providing the output here to see if it reveals anything relevant about why the thumbnail loading is failing.

I haven't used openSUSE a lot till upgrading, and don't think I tried this till then. So I don't know. And I'll look for a console output soon if that helps, sure.

You should be able to find a application called "Konsole" which will launch a terminal. In that, run "dolphin". Please make sure you don't have any other Dolphin windows open first.

Once you have run that command, Dolphin should open - at which point you should use it normally, then close it. Finally, copy and paste the output here.

I opened Dolphin from a console and navigated to a folder containing both ogv and avi videos. I enabled and disabled Preview there, then went to a folder with exe files that have icons and did the same. No relevant output (it complains about some other things), but if it still helps here it is:

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mircea@linux-qz0r:~> dolphin
dolphin(6992) KSambaSharePrivate::testparmParamValue: We got some errors while running testparm "Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Loaded services file OK.
ERROR: pid directory /var/run/samba does not exist
"
dolphin(6992) KMimeTypePrivate::ensureXmlDataLoaded: Missing <comment> field in "application/x-msdownload.xml"
mircea@linux-qz0r:~>

Okay, nothing too relevant was output there. Can you please try running "kdebugdialog" and make sure everything is enabled?
Then run in the terminal "tail -f ~/.xsession-errors" and start Dolphin as you normally would. Use it until you have reproduced the issue, then close it and copy and paste the output from the tail command above here?

(You may wish to change the name of personal files, which will likely be included in the output).