Preview Video content in Konqueror

[Greg Trounson]

Greg Trounson wrote:
>> Greg Trounson wrote:
>>>>> Greg Trounson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Up until recently I have been able to use Konqueror to preview all
>>>>>> sorts
>>>>>> of files, including video.  However since upgrading to FC4 I can no
>>>>>> longer do this.  Video previewing seems to have been totally removed
>>>>>> from Konqueror altogether (though it still works fine on my Debian
>>>>>> box).
>>>>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> It appears that recent builds of kdemultimedia and kdemultimedia-extras
>>> no
>>> longer include /usr/lib/kde3/videothumbnail.so, which I'm guessing is
>>> the
>>> key to previewing video files.
>> Looks like a buglet in kdemultimedia-extras.
>>
>> -- Rex
> 
> Possibly, but it looks like all versions of kdemultimedia-extras now have:
> # rpm -ql kdemultimedia-extras
> /usr/bin/mpeglibartsplay
> /usr/lib/kde3/kfile_mp3.la
> /usr/lib/kde3/kfile_mp3.so
> /usr/lib/kde3/kfile_mpeg.la
> /usr/lib/kde3/kfile_mpeg.so
> /usr/lib/libarts_mpeglib-0.3.0.so.0
> /usr/lib/libarts_mpeglib-0.3.0.so.0.0.3
> /usr/lib/libarts_mpeglib.la
> /usr/lib/libarts_mpeglib.so
> /usr/lib/libarts_splay.la
> /usr/lib/libarts_splay.so
> /usr/lib/libarts_splay.so.0
> /usr/lib/libarts_splay.so.0.0.0
> /usr/lib/libarts_xine.la
> /usr/lib/libarts_xine.so
> /usr/lib/libmpeg-0.3.0.so
> /usr/lib/libmpeg.la
> /usr/lib/libmpeg.so
> /usr/lib/mcop/MP3PlayObject.mcopclass
> /usr/lib/mcop/SplayPlayObject.mcopclass
> /usr/lib/mcop/xineAudioPlayObject.mcopclass
> /usr/lib/mcop/xineVideoPlayObject.mcopclass
> /usr/share/apps/videothumbnail
> /usr/share/apps/videothumbnail/sprocket-large.png
> /usr/share/apps/videothumbnail/sprocket-medium.png
> /usr/share/apps/videothumbnail/sprocket-small.png
> /usr/share/services/kfile_mp3.desktop
> /usr/share/services/kfile_mpeg.desktop
> 
> The actual videothumbnail library appears to have moved to something
> called kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree, which seems to be a recent
> development and I can't find on any yum repo.
> 
> The closest I've found is
> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2575176/com/kdemultimedia-nonfree-3.5.1-0.lvn.1.rh9.kde.i386.rpm.html
> which lists:
> libarts_mpeglib-0.3.0.so.0
> libarts_splay.so.0
> libarts_xine.so
> libkrecexport_mp3.so
> libmpeg-0.3.0.so
> libyafcore.so
> libyafxplayer.so
> videothumbnail.so
> kdemultimedia-nonfree
> 
> Incidentally, just copying videothumbnail.so from another distro to
> /usr/lib/kde3 doesn't fix it.  Is there some other file that's needed?
> 

I notice that kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree is now in the Livna repo for 
FC5, and restores the Video Preview feature correctly.

I guess it's just an FC4 bug,

Greg