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Strider

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 110

Gnome 3.12 videos and thumbnails

After testing out the new gnome 3.12 videos application, I noticed the following glitch.
Whenever you open videos it shows you thumbnails of all your movies.
That is at least if they are stored in your home Videos directories.
I have made a specific partition to store all my videos in /videos (at root level).
Now I can add a video from this directory. It will appear in the list but only without thumbnail (I just get a rectangle with a small camera icon in the middle).

How can I solve this ?

Gnome btw does some similar with gnome music and gnome photos : it only looks in your home directory. And for music and pictures I also have two dedicated partitios : /music and /pictures.

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dlh

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Registered: 2010-11-26

Posts: 44

Re: Gnome 3.12 videos and thumbnails

I cannot reproduce with gnome 3.12.2

olantwin

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Registered: 2014-05-21

Posts: 33

Re: Gnome 3.12 videos and thumbnails

@Strider:

Concerning the second part: Gnome uses tracker to index music, videos etc. globally.
Which directories are indexed can be configured under system settings > search > [cog menu].
There you can add the /videos folder to the indexed folders.

I'm not sure whether this also solves the first problem.