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cdysthe

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Registered: 2009-11-20

Posts: 62

No movie previews for Samba shares in Nautilus.

Hi,

I am not able to get video preview in Nautilus for Samba shares mounted with gvfs in Nautilus. I have enabled and installed everything that should be needed but I am not getting previews. I am getting previews for local files and even cifs shares mounted in fstab. I have the exact same share mounted the exact same way in Nautilus on Ubuntu and I do get previews, so this is an Arch issue it seems. And to save time, yes I have enabled previews in Nautilus and I do have Totem installed. This has actually been an issue for me on Arch for quite some time on several different machines, so it's not related to one particular install either.

Last edited by cdysthe (2014-08-14 14:41:10)

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: No movie previews for Samba shares in Nautilus.

This sounds like it would be difficult to troubleshoot. Maybe Nautilus/gvfs can be run with logging enabled and/or in 'debug' mode. If nothing else, you could launch Nautilus from the console.

OTOH it could be a version issue, or maybe it only works on Ubuntu because of one or more 'in-house' patches.

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cdysthe

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Registered: 2009-11-20

Posts: 62

Re: No movie previews for Samba shares in Nautilus.

This sounds like it would be difficult to troubleshoot. Maybe Nautilus/gvfs can be run with logging enabled and/or in 'debug' mode. If nothing else, you could launch Nautilus from the console.

OTOH it could be a version issue, or maybe it only works on Ubuntu because of one or more 'in-house' patches.

I've done some troubleshooting and what I've found is that thumbs are generated but they are empty png's put in the ~/cache/thumbnails/gnome-thumbnail-factory/fail folder. I can see that folder being filled when I enter a remote directory with video files so Nautilus is trying but failing.  There's no output to the terminal either when I run it from there. I am having the same problem in Nemo which uses the same thumbnail generator as Nautilus. I have tried on Ubuntu, Sabayon and Fedora. It works on all of those, but for some reason not on Arch.