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digitalone

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Registered: 2011-08-19

Posts: 346

[SOLVED] Can't play video media in Dolphin thumbnail.

Hello everyone.
I remember that I could play video files in the thumbnail preview located in the right bar of Dolphin when I had KDE4 and the old laptop.
Then I got a new laptop and installed Plasma 5. I couldn't even see image previews in the thumbnail.

After installing some extra packages and enabling image/video preview in Dolphin configuration, now I can see the preview.
But when I select a video file and click on the play button (just under the thumbnail in the bar), nothing happens, the video in not shown in the preview box.
That's not very significant, I can play the video opening it with mpv player, but I was able to do that in KDE4 and it was very comfortable to me. Why is not working in Plasma?

I got all these stuffs installed:

[root@hp_255_g5_arch ~]# pacman -Qs thumb
local/ffmpegthumbnailer 2.1.1-1
local/ffmpegthumbs 16.12.0-1 (kde-applications kdemultimedia)
local/kdegraphics-thumbnailers 16.12.0-1
local/kdesdk-thumbnailers 16.12.0-1 (kde-applications kdesdk)
[root@hp_255_g5_arch ~]# pacman -Qs gst
local/gst-libav 1.10.2-1
local/gst-plugins-bad 1.10.2-1
local/gst-plugins-base 1.10.2-1
local/gst-plugins-base-libs 1.10.2-1
local/gstreamer 1.10.2-1
local/gstreamer0.10 0.10.36-4
local/gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.36-3
local/phonon-qt4-gstreamer 4.9.0-1
local/phonon-qt5-gstreamer 4.9.0-1

What am I missing? Thanks.

Last edited by digitalone (2016-12-28 14:43:36)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,657

Re: [SOLVED] Can't play video media in Dolphin thumbnail.

Afaik gst-plugins-good contains a few things phonon needs for that. While you are at it gst-plugins-ugly probably won't hurt either. FWIW it works just fine here.

digitalone

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Registered: 2011-08-19

Posts: 346

Re: [SOLVED] Can't play video media in Dolphin thumbnail.

Afaik gst-plugins-good contains a few things phonon needs for that. While you are at it gst-plugins-ugly probably won't hurt either. FWIW it works just fine here.

Thanks. Installed good and ugly packages and it works. Cheers.

Last edited by digitalone (2016-12-28 14:44:10)