video preview as icon?

[Mr. Mulder]

Awhile ago on a Mepis setup I had it were the icons for .avi's were preview stills from like 5mins in, can't remember how i did it though?

Thought it was in this screen where you right click on an avi then go ot properties then preview but that whole screen is greyed out?

edit: i go to desktop behaviour, click on file icons and there's no video box to put a tick in?

[Rog131]

Re: video preview as icon?

Do you have ?:

mplayerthumbs - thumbnail generator for video files on Konqueror (and Dolphin/KDE)

MPlayerThumbs is a thumbnail generator for video files on
Konqueror. Unlike the original konqueror plugin (libarts1-xine),
it depends on neither 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.

Homepage: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=41180

or

libarts1-xine aRts plugin enabling xine support

This package contains aRts' xine plugin, allowing the use of the xine
multimedia engine though aRts.

[mchuskie]

Re: video preview as icon?

This used to be in Kubuntu, it disappeared about a year ago and I hadn't been able to figure out how to get it back... libarts1-xine did the trick, thanks!

[MoonRise]

Re: video preview as icon?

Thanks for the info!! My Desktop evidently had that installed, but I wondered why my laptop never did that. Yeah!!!

[Mr. Mulder]

Re: video preview as icon?

libarts1-xine did the trick here too, installed it then a tick box became available under desktop behaviour > File icons

Cheers

[lowey23]

Re: video preview as icon?

libarts1-xine did the trick for me, too.

There's some easy fixes for problems if you have a bit of a look around, isn't there?