Dropping mplayerthumbs from 16.08

Andreas Scherf ascherfy at googlemail.com
Tue Mar 29 16:39:33 BST 2016


Hello, sure the speed was one of the main reasons for integrating
ffmpegthumbnailer into kde. And I think it is better to maintain one system
instead of two.

So thumb up for dropping mplayerthumbs.

Cheers
Andreas
Am 29.03.2016 09:22 schrieb "Michael Palimaka" <kensington at gentoo.org>:

> On 25/03/16 09:49, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El dimecres, 23 de març de 2016, a les 20:31:48 CET, Michael Palimaka va
> > escriure:
> >> Any thoughts about dropping mplayerthumbs from 16.08?
> >>
> >> It seems basically untouched for years, and I'm not sure if it's useful
> >> anymore now that dolphin is ported to KF5.
> >
> > Tehy could be ported to KF5 too, no?
>
> Sure, if someone is willing to do it.
>
> >
> > Any idea how these compare to ffmpegthumbnailers? Better, worse? thesame?
>
> In my experience ffmpegthumbs is a bit faster because it uses ffmpeg
> directly instead of having to call mplayer for each file.
>
> It looks like there was some interest in ffmpegthumbs replacing
> mplayerthumbs when it was introduced
> (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.general/61129/). Some
> distros such as Fedora appear to no longer ship mplayerthumbs too.
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