[ubuntu-in] preview icon for video files

[Onkar Shinde]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Alok Singh Mahor <alokmahor at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> I have already installed gstreamer plugins as totem can play all video
> files.
> something strange is happening when I open the directory from home , it
> doesnt show thumnail, I also have created desktop shortcut for that video
> directory. when I open via shortcut on desktop nautilus shows the thumbnail.

Try this. Delete directory .thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/
in your home directory.
Command - rm -rf ~/.thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/


Onkar