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Whenever I open a folder containing video files (all in mp4) in GNOME Files I am seeing no thumbnails, just icons designated to the files based on their file type. I have ffmpegthumbnailer installed and have opened preferences and gone to the "Search and Preview" tab and set the thumbnails settings to display them for all files under 4 GB. The video files I am looking at and hoping for a thumbnail for are far less than 4 GB in size.
EDIT: And if anyone is wondering if my system is up-to-date it is, I regularly run pacman -Syu. I opened GNOME Files long after ffmpegthumbnailer was installed just in case you're wondering if I need to close GNOME Files and re-open it. I've also rebooted several times since installed ffmpegthumbnailer.
Last edited by fusion809 (2017-06-28 17:54:21)
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Try to install totem.
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Totem is installed. I confirmed using:
pacman -S totem --noconfirm --needed
and it returned:
warning: totem-3.24.0-1 is up to date -- skipping
there is nothing to do
just to reassure ya that I have got it right, it is installed.
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Try clearing thumbnail cache by removing ~/.thumbnails. Also look up journal for any error related to ffmpegthumbnailer.
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It (ffmpegthumbnailer and thumbnails) works fine in Thunar. GNOME Files is the odd one out. I think you're wrong as to the folder mate, it's ~/.cache/thumbnails as removing ~/.thumbnails, re-opening GNOME Files and changing it into a directory with files to thumbnail causes no ~/.thumbnails folder to be created despite the thumbnails being rendered fine for non-video files. But if ~/.cache/thumbnails is deleted and GNOME Files is opened to a folder where files (like PDF files, for example) can be thumbnailed ~/.cache/thumbnails is re-created. I'm afraid deleting either folder does not result in any video thumbnails being generated properly. If I open a folder with video files in Thunar and it generates the thumbnails and then I open the same folder in GNOME Files I see the thumbnails that were generated in Thunar in GNOME Files. So it cannot be a problem with displaying the thumbnails, it's some issue of GNOME Files with generating them.
journalctl -xe | grep ffmpegthumbnailer
returns no results if you are still wanting me to check journal output for ffmpegthumbnailer errors.
Last edited by fusion809 (2017-07-02 17:24:44)
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Show output
ls /usr/share/thumbnailers/
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atril.thumbnailer gsf-office.thumbnailer
evince.thumbnailer librsvg.thumbnailer
ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer mate-font-viewer.thumbnailer
gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer.thumbnailer totem.thumbnailer
gnome-font-viewer.thumbnailer
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Does nautilus even use ffmpegthumbnailer? Try install the gst plugins (gst-libav gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-ugly).
P.S. nautilus package in Arch does not have _any_ optdep listed btw
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make sure you have it set to display thumbnails for sufficiently large files
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@HilmTye: seems like you didn't read my original post or you didn't understand it or you forgot what it said or you ignored it. I said and I quote:
have opened preferences and gone to the "Search and Preview" tab and set the thumbnails settings to display them for all files under 4 GB. The video files I am looking at and hoping for a thumbnail for are far less than 4 GB in size.
The files I am trying to thumbnail are ~ 100-200 MB in size, far less than the 4GB limit imposed by GNOME Files.
@tom.ty89 Shall give that it a go, thanks.
Last edited by fusion809 (2017-07-09 15:05:33)
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do you have an intel GPU? there's a warning on the wiki
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Ah thanks didn't see that. I have dual Intel and NVIDIA graphics cards.
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This can be solved by installing gst-libvav from extra repositories (you still need totem to be installed)
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Thanks for the answer Tairosonloa, but please do not necrobump old threads in the future.
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