Thumbnail seeking feature in video players

Question

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.

(video source)

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?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 17 '17 at 18:37

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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

edited Oct 17 '17 at 18:37

pomsky

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answered Oct 14 '17 at 18:21

tso

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I know ;) Why don't you expand your answer a bit? Maybe add the installation process too. – pomsky Oct 14 '17 at 18:34

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 14 '17 at 18:24

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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

answered Oct 14 '17 at 18:24

rstreeter78

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Thumbnail seeking feature in video players

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