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kffmpegthumbnailer package

video thumbnails are not available in dolphin previews

Bug #1547745 reported by Jason Straight on 2016-02-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1505014: dolphin doesn't load video thumbnail services. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	kffmpegthumbnailer (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I assume this is the function of this package, to replace ffmpegthumbnailer, as it says, but no option exists in dolphin previews to enable video previews after installing this.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: kffmpegthumbnailer 1.1.0-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-6.21-generic 4.4.1
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-6-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Fri Feb 19 20:21:50 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-19 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160219)
SourcePackage: kffmpegthumbnailer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Jason Straight (jason-jeetkunedomaster) wrote on 2016-02-20:

Dependencies.txt Edit (19.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (16.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (98 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-03-03:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in kffmpegthumbnailer (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Tasev Nikola (tasev-stefanoska) wrote on 2016-03-03:

Hi,

This bug is still present in the new Kubuntu 16.04 Xenial build.
Recompiling ffmpegthumbs like suggested in bug :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dolphin/+bug/1505014 comment 14 still work's.

sudo apt-get install git build-essential cmake extra-cmake-modules kio-dev pkg-config libavformat-dev
libavcodec-dev libswscale-dev

git clone git://anongit.kde.org/ffmpegthumbs
cd ffmpegthumbs
git checkout origin/frameworks
mkdir -p builddir
cd builddir && cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DKDE_INSTALL_QTPLUGINDIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins
make
sudo make install

Close and reopen dolphin.

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Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2016-03-03:

hi,

even though this bug-report may cover the issue much better, in terms of package-releation, we wish to avoid too many open & unmaintained bug-reports. Thereas it's now marked as duplicate of #1505014 which fits better in terms of timeline.

Any responses from the KDE-bugtracking-system go there.

With regards to Xenial: More recent stage of KDE (Applications, Frameworks, Plasma) will arrive soon.

@ Tasev: Workarounds are great! ... but .... they don't solve the root of the cause, so they exclude a wider audience ot share a proper solution. Harald (Sitter) has pretty well described the source of the problem in the ([master]-bug-report) for finding an appropiate solution "anybody" can enjoy.