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Since the new 15.10 release, the movie thumbnail is gone from dolphin. It was working before, I did an upgrade from 15.04 and suddely this option disappeard. Any idea how can I get it back ? Thank you!

Dolphin previews window

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  • Additional info : The kffmpegthumbnailer (video thumbnailer for KDE) is already installed :
    – rf2632
    Nov 3, 2015 at 13:36

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Thank you Palantir! There was indeed a workaround. This is what I did :

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

Downloading/compiling/installing:

git clone git://anongit.kde.org/ffmpegthumbs
cd ffmpegthumbs
git checkout origin/frameworks
mkdir -p builddir
cd builddir && cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$(kf5-config --prefix) -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DKDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS=ON
sudo make install

And when I restarted Dolphin I found this :

So it works :)

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  • Good to know. Will do that myself :D
    – Palantir
    Nov 3, 2015 at 14:15
  • Fantastic! Actually you send me the link :)
    – rf2632
    Nov 3, 2015 at 14:24
  • Didn't work for me, it said it had unmet dependencies :( Oct 7, 2018 at 14:39
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Unfortunately, this is a bug. You can find the bug report here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dolphin/+bug/1505014

There is no simple fix. Try reading the bug report if there are workarounds suggested.

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