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pomsky
Asked: 2017-10-15 09:56:32 +0800 CST

Thumbnail seeking feature in video players [duplicate]

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YouTube (and many other online video streaming websites) has a nifty feature. If you place the mouse cursor at any point on the video progress bar at the bottom of the video, a thumbnail pops up showing a preview of the frame of the video (approximately) at the second where the cursor is placed.

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I use SMPlayer and VLC to play videos and also have "Videos" (aka totem) installed by default.

  • Is there any settings/plug-ins/extensions/add-ons available for any of the above mentioned video players to enable a similar "thumbnail-seeking" feature?
  • Alternatively, is there a video playing application (free or non-free) available for Ubuntu which supports enabling this feature?
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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You may try ExMplayer, a graphical front-end for MPlayer. It comes with a thumbnail seeking feature.

    You can install ExMplayer from this PPA by running the following commands:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:exmplayer-dev/exmplayer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install exmplayer
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  2. There is such an application it is called ExMplayer. You can check out the page for the ppa Here. Also here is the link to the Website for Exmplayer

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