Dolphin video animated previews

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Hello,
I am using KDE with Garuda Linux. (I posted a help request at Garuda but no reply).
Before my last update I used to get an animated video preview (about 5 frames) when I hovered the cursor over a video file. Since the update I get a single image as a video preview.
How can I get the video animated previews again ?
I am not very Linux technical. Thanks for you help and patience.

System Info :
Operating System: Garuda Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.16.5-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.0 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics
Product Name: X570S PG Riptide

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Same problem here !

Operating System: KDE neon User Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.8.0-79-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 24 × AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
Memory: 32 Gio of RAM (31.2 Gio usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

3

Same here. Sometimes I can see 1 frame, but the 90% of times 0 frames.

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250829
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.16.3-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

Regards

4

Seems I have this issue as well. Previews are on, so I see all the video thumbnails, but hovering over any of them with the cursor does nothing.

Operating System: EndeavourOS
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.16.7-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7B58
System Version: 1.0

5

This feature worked in KDE5. According to Google AI, the devs decided to drop it because it was too resource intensive. It would be nice if it was an option. I really liked it and miss this feature.

6

It works for me in 6.5.2. Maybe trusting google AI was a mistake.

7

I don’t even own a cell phone

8

Indeed it is plain wrong.
LLMs will make things up when they don’t know.

It is not active in all context, notably network filesystems as this is very data intensive IIRC.

What format is the video using ? We might have some limitations regarding this.