Video Previews

erfan arabfakhri wrote:
> KDE is a very good and advanced Desktop Environment 
but when KDE want's 
> to generate a thumbnail from video files it shows a
snapshot from the 
> first frames of the movie witch is always black ( like
windows previews 
> witch they are black too ), you can generate that
thumbnail from a frame 
> in middle of the video ( like gnome ) so it will become
very helpful, 
> when you want to find a video among others just by
looking at theme.

Although it might take a while to go through the first few
frames, it 
shouldn't be that hard to detect a black screen.

However, since it didn't used to display the black screen, I
suspect 
that this is a bug.  OTOH, I think that what was displayed
was the 
ratings screen.  Not much of an improvement.   It
shouldn't be that 
hard to detect that either since it is only two colors.

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On Friday 20 July 2007 16:05, erfan arabfakhri wrote:
> KDE is a very good and advanced Desktop Environment 
but when KDE want's to
> generate a thumbnail from video files it shows a
snapshot from the first
> frames of the movie witch is always black ( like
windows previews witch
> they are black too ), you can generate that thumbnail
from a frame in
> middle of the video ( like gnome ) so it will become
very helpful, when you
> want to find a video among others just by looking at
theme.
Thanks for your suggestion.

To avoid this being lost / forgotten before it is
implemented, can you please 
add this as a "wishlist" item on http://bugs.kde.org ?

Thanks again.

Brad

 
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For the record: There's a third-party thumbnailer
called "MPlayerThumbs" on KDE-Apps.org, based on
the MPlayer engine, which does just that. And it
doesn't need aRts, either.


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On 7/20/07, Brad Hards <bradhfrogmouth.net> wrote:
> On Friday 20 July 2007 16:05, erfan arabfakhri wrote:
> > KDE is a very good and advanced Desktop
Environment  but when KDE want's
> to
> > generate a thumbnail from video files it shows a
snapshot from the first
> > frames of the movie witch is always black ( like
windows previews witch
> > they are black too ), you can generate that
thumbnail from a frame in
> > middle of the video ( like gnome ) so it will
become very helpful, when
> you
> > want to find a video among others just by looking
at theme.
> Thanks for your suggestion.
>
> To avoid this being lost / forgotten before it is
implemented, can you
> please
> add this as a "wishlist" item on http://bugs.kde.org ?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Brad
>

Been reported for ages ;)
https://b
ugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124043
 
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