Audio / Video Preview from file manager

[smirnoff76]

Hey all

Prior to coming to Ubuntu one of the previous versions of Linux I used had a facility where when you hung the mouse over an audio / video file you would get a preview of the file start playing.

Does anyone know what software is used to achieve this?

Thanks 8)

[toad]

Re: Audio / Video Preview from file manager

I wouldn't know about Dolphin, but in Konqueror you need to go into Settings - Configure Konqueror - Previews and Meta-Data.

Mind, it is probably similar in Dolphin...

[Rog131]

Re: Audio / Video Preview from file manager

As toad told: Konqueror > Settings > Configure Konqueror > Previews & Meta-Data (allow previews)

You may also need:

libarts1-xine aRts plugin enabling xine support
or
mplayerthumbs - thumbnail generator for video files on Konqueror (and Dolphin/KDE)


Note
There is a new version of the mplayerthumbs
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=41180

Changelog:
2008-06-20 MPlayerThumbs 1.0
* First stable release
* Porting to KDE 4
* Refactoring code, for more stability and speed
* Also KDE 4 adds for us a free feature, random thumbnail generation on
the preview on the information toolbar on each mouseover

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