How to have video thumbnails in Rox file manager in Arch and Gentoo
ROX-Filer is a fast and powerful graphical file manager for the X Window System.
By default ROX-Filer has thumbnailing disabled, and when enabled only supports some basic image formats. The thumbnail suport can be expanded by using VideoThumbs which will allow ROX-Filer to generate and display thumbnails for most common video formats.
Firstly if you havn’t already done so, you must enable basic thumbnail display in ROX-Filer, right click on a black section of Rox, select Options>Filer windows>Thumbnail and make sure that “Show image thumbnails is selected”.
To install videothumbnail in Gentoo:
emerge rox-extra/videothumbnail
To install videothumbnail in Arch:
yaourt -Sy videothumbnail
( You must have rox-lib version 2 or higher ) and run Videothumbnail and install handlers.
OR install manually by: grabbing latest VideoThumbnails package at http://www.kerofin.demon.co.uk/rox/VideoThumbnail.html . Next change to the directory where you wish to install VideoThumbs (~/Apps or /usr/share might be good choices) and extract it:
tar zxvf VideoThumbnail-0.?.?.tar.gz
Once it is extracted you will need to install the handlers. Execute the AppRun file as the user you want to enable thumbnailing with and select the “Install handlers” button, then click “OK”. ROX-Filer should now be able to generate thumbnail images for most common video formats.
VideoThumbs is only configured to handle most common video files however it can eaiserly be modified to handle any video that mplayer can display. If you want to enable other video formats, edit the AppInfo.xml file and add the correct MIME-Types near the end, then reinstall the handlers. You can find the mime-type by right clicking on the file and selecting properties.
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