[SOLVED] KDE3: Konqueror and video thumbnails

Hello everyone!
I have ArchLinux + KDEmod3 installed with the latest updates and I have a problem with the video thumbnails in Konqueror. By default it shows the first frame of video as preview and it is rather ugly. Most commonly it's just a black screen or something like that. I searched the Internet and found a solution - mplayerthumbs http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.ph … tent=41180. Package from AUR requires kdelibs from KDE4, so I decided to compile it from sources. It has been compiled and installed successfully. But here is the problem: Konqueror still shows previews made from the first frame! Even if I delete contents of ~/.thumbnails, the same previews will be generated. But article on kde-apps.org says that "It catches a random frame from 15% to 70%"
So how can I fix mplayerthums or is there any other way to get nice video previews in KDE3?
Thank you.
Last edited by robert_foster (2008-10-26 08:36:56)

I think solution from AUR package's page will help:
To resolve this, you have to edit the file "videopreview.cpp". Add "#include <stdlib.h>" at the top and the pakage works again.

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