I’m just trying to figure out if I can fix by myself the video previews that stopped working on Tumbleweed. Seems like there was some sort of recent carfuffle involving open-h264 packages that may be related, but I don’t know what Dolphin actually uses.
What it is and how?
On arch dolphin uses the “phonon-qt6-vlc / mpv / gstreamer” packages to achieve this functionality, I don’t know about suse
Hum… maybe the problem is because I removed VLC?
Will test this when I get home.
There’s also this [1] reported over at endeavouros forums. (Endeavouros is (almost) arch. )
[1] Phonon-qt6-mpv removed from the repos - #17 by dirn - Important notifications - EndeavourOS
I’m on fedora 42 and
dnf install phonon-backend-gstreamer
fixed playing videos in dolphin. I suspect I uninstalled it when I removed the bundled video player after installation. I don’t really need it but it’s good to have it working
That was really it.
After installing Tumbleweed I removed some “fat” and this was probably removed along with VLC.
FYI, next dolphin (25.08) release will use qmultimedia instead of phonon, but still gstreamer on the backend.
It should be a more common dependency with less chances of it missing.
fantastic. I’m a big fan of under the hood modernisation. my problem came from not paying attention to the list of things getting removed when uninstsalling an RPM, and then forgetting I did it.
UPDATE
A question: Video Previews on Information Panel on Dolphin is still not compatible with AV1?
Noticed that for videos that use this newer codec only the audio plays but the video doesn’t show.
Is this something that I can fix?
That’s a different question entirely.
Depends on your gstreamer support.
Whitout knowing anything about your distro, I can’t really help further apart from pointing to GStreamer - ArchWiki
Myself in Arch, I hadn’t any feature returned by gst-inspect-1.0 va.
Until I installed intel-media-driver for my intel laptop, see Hardware_video_acceleration.