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#1 2017-06-28 16:43:53

fusion809
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Video thumbnails are not being displayed in GNOME Files

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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#2 2017-07-02 15:30:52

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Re: Video thumbnails are not being displayed in GNOME Files

Try to install totem.

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#3 2017-07-02 15:50:46

fusion809
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Re: Video thumbnails are not being displayed in GNOME Files

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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#4 2017-07-02 17:14:00

adesh
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Re: Video thumbnails are not being displayed in GNOME Files

Try clearing thumbnail cache by removing ~/.thumbnails. Also look up journal for any error related to ffmpegthumbnailer.

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#5 2017-07-02 17:23:51

fusion809
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Re: Video thumbnails are not being displayed in GNOME Files

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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#6 2017-07-02 22:01:55

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Re: Video thumbnails are not being displayed in GNOME Files

Show output

ls /usr/share/thumbnailers/

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#7 2017-07-02 22:08:05

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Re: Video thumbnails are not being displayed in GNOME Files

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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#8 2017-07-09 04:50:00

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Re: Video thumbnails are not being displayed in GNOME Files

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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#9 2017-07-09 05:34:41

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Re: Video thumbnails are not being displayed in GNOME Files

make sure you have it set to display thumbnails for sufficiently large files

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#10 2017-07-09 14:50:34

fusion809
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Re: Video thumbnails are not being displayed in GNOME Files

@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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#11 2017-07-10 00:00:02

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Re: Video thumbnails are not being displayed in GNOME Files

do you have an intel GPU? there's a warning on the wiki

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#12 2017-07-10 00:04:04

fusion809
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Re: Video thumbnails are not being displayed in GNOME Files

Ah thanks didn't see that. I have dual Intel and NVIDIA graphics cards.

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#13 2018-09-10 22:11:31

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Re: Video thumbnails are not being displayed in GNOME Files

This can be solved by installing gst-libvav from extra repositories (you still need totem to be installed)

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#14 2018-09-10 22:49:12

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Re: Video thumbnails are not being displayed in GNOME Files

Thanks for the answer Tairosonloa, but please do not necrobump old threads in the future.

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#15 2018-09-10 23:15:29

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Re: Video thumbnails are not being displayed in GNOME Files


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