Saw this recent post about switching from totem-video-thumbnailer to ffmpegthumbnailer and receiving a massive boost of speed: <a href="http://tuxcanfly.appspot.com/2010/05/ffmpegthumbnailer-vs-totem-video-thumbnailer">http://tuxcanfly.appspot.com/2010/05/ffmpegthumbnailer-vs-totem-video-thumbnailer</a> Though I should bring it to your attention here, perhaps this could be replaced as the default. I notice that thumbnailing is very slow in Ubuntu, and this is a massive improvement, so I think it's probably at least worth investigation. Just a thought, Rich