Bug 158072

Summary:	improving dolphin's preview feature
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	David <StormByte>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	angel_blue_co2004, finex, mail
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description David 2008-02-19 23:13:13 UTC

Version:           svn (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

Wish for dolphin in "preview" feature:
I suggest that dolphin could do like Windows Vista does (***I don't want to start a conversation against windows nor anything else, just to give an example of what I am saying***) with video files. This way, we could have a icon with some frame of the video instead of the generic video file icon.
Also, this is usefull to see rapidly if a video is playable or not (because it is damaged, or you lack the video codec, etc...) by looking if it has a generic icon or not.

How about implementing this?

Comment 1 Peter Penz 2008-02-21 10:36:41 UTC

I agree that this would be nice, but it is a task outside the scope of Dolphin. Dolphin only requests to get a preview of the current file; if the corresponding preview plugin is installed, it should be no problem that a preview of the video will be shown. AFAIK know Dragon Player - which will be available for KDE 4.1 - should be able to provide such a plugin. I still have set the bug to NEW and will set it to fixed as soon as such a plugin is available.

Comment 2 David 2008-02-22 17:27:23 UTC

I've been thinking in this issue, and I found a debatible question: which frame should be taken for preview?
 - First frame: I think it would have good performance, but, I think it will not be usefull because first frame is usually a black frame, so it owuld be useless in most cases
 - Frame from the middle: It sounds good, but how about performance impact?

Comment 3 Angel Blue01 2009-03-11 18:32:21 UTC

In 4.2 if you have mplayer-thumbnails installed it will show thumbnails for video files.

Comment 4 FiNeX 2010-08-14 17:37:17 UTC

As said by Angel Blue01, the video preview now displays multiple frames of the video and you can watch a preview on the information panel too.

Could this wish be considered as implemented?

Comment 5 Julian Steinmann 2018-03-09 17:29:02 UTC

Implemented in Dolphin 17.12.3. Closing because this wish has been fulfilled :)