Bug 73486

Summary:	Randomize frame from video preview
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kio-extras	Reporter:	Antonio Pérez <antonio>
Component:	Thumbnails and previews	Assignee:	Malte Starostik <malte>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	adawit, angel_blue_co2004, finex, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
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Description Antonio Pérez 2004-01-25 20:52:10 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.94)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:          Linux

Video thumbnail previews in konqueror are always made using the same video frame (and about the 1st minute of video).

Would be possible to get the frames for the thumbnails randomly (and maybe getting the frame between the 5th and 10th minutes)? 

I think nautilus behavior with video previews is correct at this.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 1 tmeedend 2006-04-20 15:09:31 UTC

i think the bug i have reported before is similar : Bug 124043 (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124043)

Comment 2 Angel Blue01 2009-03-06 04:14:18 UTC

This bug is very similiar to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124043 Regardless 4.x appears to always draw a random frame as a thumbnail.

Comment 3 FiNeX 2009-09-16 14:10:09 UTC

Currently KDE 4 + "mplayer thumb plugin" previews ever the same frame but hovering the icon, a sequence of frames taken from the video is displayed sequentially. I think this bug can be closed: the current behaviour looks good.

Comment 4 Dawit Alemayehu 2013-07-07 17:31:11 UTC

Based on feedback in comment #3.

Comment 5 FiNeX 2013-07-07 18:38:43 UTC

Hi, I've tested this bug again due the closing status and I've discovered that the sequence is no more shown... it is quite strange because I remember to have seen this behaviour recently. I've tried both kdemultimedia-mplayerthumbs and ffmpegthumbnailer and none works :-(

@Dawit: would you like to test this bug again? Thanks.

Comment 6 Dawit Alemayehu 2013-07-07 21:54:18 UTC

FiNeX, I did a quick test and I do not see any sequences either. Perhaps the mplayer thumbnail generator was the one doing that and not the ffmpeg one. Anyhow, I have changed the status back to CONFIRMED. Thanks for checking and reopening.