MPlayerThumbs

MPlayerThumbs is a video thumbnail generator for KDE file managers (Konqueror, Dolphin, ...) , now available also for KDE 4.
It needs mplayer (of course) to generate thumbnails, and it contains no linking to any library, so in a x86_64 system you can freely use the 32bit mplayer binary with win32codecs by configuring the application launching the mplayerthumbsconfig helper application.
It catches a random frame from 15% to 70%, checking also how contrasted is the image, and dropping bad frames.

2009-02-11 MPlayerThumbs 1.2
* Fixed build with kde 4.2 (thanks Pino Toscano)

2008-07-18 MPlayerThumbs 1.1
* Re-adding strips, and making them dynamically configurable
* Adding option to clear cache in mplayerthumbsconfig
* Optimizing the code to use an unique directory to store thumbs, to avoid
confusing thumbs for different files

2008-06-20 MPlayerThumbs 1.0
* First stable release
* Porting to KDE 4
* Refactoring code, for more stability and speed
* Also KDE 4 adds for us a free feature, random thumbnail generation on
the preview on the information toolbar on each mouseover ;)

2006-07-10 MPlayerThumbs 0.5b
* Fixed thumbnail generation when files have not an extension.
2006-07-01 MPlayerThumbs 0.5
* Adding -ao null option instead of -nosound
* Adding custom arguments configuration to mplayerthumbsconfig
* Cleaning code, removing check for local/remote files, and threating
all them as local, since kio already provides us a good support for
remote files.
* Option to add "blacklisted" extensions with mplayerthumbsconfig