thumbnail for videos in nautilus
Fedora 18, I can play mp4 files, nautilus not displaying thumbnails, what package(s) am I missing?
Fedora 18, I can play mp4 files, nautilus not displaying thumbnails, what package(s) am I missing?
Removing failed thumbnails located at ~/.cache/thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory works
In nautilus the image/video previews are generated by the app totem-video-thumbnailer Check if you have it install by running:
ls -l /usr/bin/totem-video-thumbnailer
Second, you need the proper codecs installed.
For 32 bit systems you need:
yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg
whereas for a 64 bit system you need:
yum -y install gstreamer1-libav gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-extras gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld gstreamer1-plugins-base-tools updates gstreamer1-plugins-good-extras gstreamer1-plugins-ugly gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-plugins-base gstreamer1
In order to install these codecs you need to install the RPM fusion repositories.
IIRC you need gstreamer-plugins-bad from RPMFusion
I found that the default maximum file size for generating previews was 1 MB on my system. Since many videos are bigger than that, I wasn't getting thumbnails for them. To solve this problem, go into the file manager, Edit> Preferences> Preview> Change "Only for files smaller than" to something bigger.
Asked: 2013-02-15 07:43:35 -0600
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Last updated: Jul 03 '13
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