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Monday, February 12th 2007, 10:40am

Icon Previews

In Suse 10.2 I would like to enable showing desktop icon previews for video files. Going into KDE control center/Desktop/Behaviour tab file icons there are tic boxes, but none for video files. In other distros there is. Going into the Preview tab of the icons it is grayed out.

Is there a files somewhere that I could edit, or is there a program I can install to get this feature?

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Monday, February 12th 2007, 11:57am

i think you should install MplayerThumbs
it is available from the packman source for openSUSE
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Monday, February 12th 2007, 1:48pm

Thanks Rinse. Have downloaded the MplayerVideoThumbs and will attempt to install it. However, I don´t think that is what I am looking for, which I believe is a KDE program or KDE config file. When I hold the mouse over the icons, I do get a preview with various file information but I only see the standard icon.

What I am looking for is the preview icon, which for mpeg files is a shapshot few seconds into each movie. Actually, SuSE Gnome has it, so why not SuSe KDE? Actually Gnome also had icons for powerpoint slideshows.

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Monday, February 12th 2007, 2:03pm

well, on my system, mplayerthumbs creates the icons for movie files.
There are other libraries that can do that ( i guess gnome uses gstreamer for it), but afaik mplayerthumbs is the fastest available for creating preview icons and tooltip previews.

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mplayerthumbs is a thumbnail generator for video files on Konqueror.
Unlike the original konqueror plugin, it does not depend neither on xine nor
arts, instead it uses only mplayer.
You can take advantage of this on x86_64 systems, where you can use a 32bit
mplayer to load win32codecs. To configure the location of your mplayer binary
launch mplayerthumbsconfig.
Also it's faster than the xine plugin, since it can seek and play only a
limited number of frames.
It catches a random frame from 15% to 70%, checking also how contrasted is the
image, and dropping bad frames.



I was mistaken about mplayerthumbs being provided by packman, its provided by guru.

For installation of software on suse linux, i'd like to suggest to use yast for searching and installing software, in stead of looking on the internet for applications and trying to figure out how to install them.
mor information about installing software with yast can be found on
http://en.opensuse.org/Add_Package_Repositories_to_YaST
http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories


about powerpoint previews, i had that in konqueror as well, dunno which plugin is needed for that (don't have any ppt-files at the moment to check this)
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Monday, February 12th 2007, 4:54pm

Thanks you were right of course. The tar-ball I had downloaded and could not install was called mplayer-video-thumb. Anyway the mplayerthumbs from Guru installed fine. Thanks again for your help!

Krister