[ubuntu-in] preview icon for video files

[Onkar Shinde]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Alok Singh Mahor <alokmahor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> In Ubuntu 10.04 nautilus is not showing preview icon for video
> files(.avi,mpg etc). its not showing preview icon even for small files.
> I tried in nautilus Edit >> preference >> preview (tab) to enable preview
> for large file too. but its not show preview icon for any video files.
> please tell me how to enable preview icon for video files.
> thank you

The preview icons are generated with help of totem which in turn
depends on gstreamer for frame extraction form these video files. Make
sure you have appropriate gstreamer plugins installed. You can verify
this by trying to play the files with totem.


Onkar