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scm

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Registered: 2026-01-06

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Dynamic video file thumbnails

I'm looking for a way to implement dynamic video file thumbnails. Not static thumbnails. It worked for me under KDE5 but not under KDE6. And now not under XFCE. Is there a certain app or package I can install?
Thanks

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Dynamic video file thumbnails

I don't believe its supported by Thunar. Xfce tries to follow freedesktop specifications and the thumbnailing spec doesn't support dynamic or animated thumbnails.

That being said, Thunar does support custom actions that allow you to add a menu item to the context menu that you could use to create a preview of sorts of the video file using an app like mpv. You could create a custom action that will play a small short clip of the video file using a command like:

mpv --autofit-larger=200x200 --start=0 --length=10 --speed=2.0 %f

...and adjust any of those values to suit.

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