thunar-thumbnailer not working suddenly-- not quite solved...

colbert · 2008-07-22 02:14:45

I use thunar as my file manager and after doing a pacman upgrade, even logged out and back in thunar-thumbnailers (plug-in for thunar that makes thumbnails quite well of any format I've run into--flv, png, mpg, avi, etc.) is not making thumbnails anymore. From its webpage (http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thunar … mbnailers/) it instructs to run this after installing, which I tried to do again as I figured it may be necessary after the upgrade:

/usr/libexec/thunar-vfs-update-thumbnailers-cache-1

But this is not found, instead it is now at:

/usr/lib/xfce4/thunar-vfs-update-thumbnailers-cache-1

I ran that with no errors, killed thunar daemon, even logged out and back in but still no thumbnails. Any ideas? TIA

Last edited by colbert (2008-07-27 21:26:56)

fwojciec · 2008-07-22 02:23:02

A while ago I had to manually rebuild ffmpegthumbnailer package -- try running ffmpegthumbnailer from the terminal and see if you get any errors. If you do rebuild it with ABS, that should fix it. You also might have to delete the contents of the ~/.thumbnails/fail directory before thunar thumbnailer will re-read files that it failed on previously.

Last edited by fwojciec (2008-07-22 02:24:23)

colbert · 2008-07-22 02:26:57

Thank you fwojciec, I received this error:

~ # ffmpegthumbnailer 
ffmpegthumbnailer: error while loading shared libraries: libx264.so.57: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have the package "x264" installed and working, though?? Should I just rebuild it via ABS??

EDIT: I have built ffmpegthumbnailer via ABS and all works now! Thanks so much fwojciec!!

Last edited by colbert (2008-07-22 02:32:07)

colbert · 2008-07-27 21:27:28

Well I've just noticed that thumbnails appear to work but for the .avi format, no videos make thumbnails in that format. MKV, JPG, PDF, they seem to work fine but not AVI?

tofu · 2008-07-28 04:25:45

oh hey. I experience the same issues as you. Yeah. Same here.... all work fine except avi... which is strange

SiD · 2008-07-28 07:11:10

I'm using thunar too. But there never were thumbnails for avi files.

colbert · 2008-07-28 18:30:11

I had thumbnails for avi files, it just seems not to work after some recent upgrade or something, I am unsure. Hopefully someone has a solution!

delacruz · 2008-07-29 18:10:29

i have the same problem. i agree with colbert that after some unknown update the thumbnails for my avi and wmv stopped making thumbnails. I am trying to find a solution but im not sure what to blame. anyone know what is causing this? xfce4? thunar? totem?

zodmaner · 2008-07-29 18:20:07

I believe this is an upstream issue with ffmpegthumbnailer (see this bug report).

Last edited by zodmaner (2008-07-29 18:21:03)

delacruz · 2008-07-29 18:40:46

this is what happens when i try the --help command on ffmpegthumbnailer

$ ffmpegthumbnailer --help
ffmpegthumbnailer: error while loading shared libraries: libx264.so.57: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

zodmaner · 2008-07-29 18:45:11

delacruz wrote:

this is what happens when i try the --help command on ffmpegthumbnailer
$ ffmpegthumbnailer --help
ffmpegthumbnailer: error while loading shared libraries: libx264.so.57: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What version of ffmpegthumbnailer are you using? The new version (1.2.6) just hit the repos a moment ago. Upgrade to the new version should fix this problem for you.

Last edited by zodmaner (2008-07-29 18:45:36)

delacruz · 2008-07-29 18:54:20

zodmaner wrote:

What version of ffmpegthumbnailer are you using? The new version (1.2.6) just hit the repos a moment ago. Upgrade to the new version should fix this problem for you.

do you mean the AUR package or the pacman packages? I update my pacman and the new 1.2.6 is not up yet.

zodmaner · 2008-07-29 19:01:15

delacruz wrote:

zodmaner wrote:
What version of ffmpegthumbnailer are you using? The new version (1.2.6) just hit the repos a moment ago. Upgrade to the new version should fix this problem for you.
do you mean the AUR package or the pacman packages? I update my pacman and the new 1.2.6 is not up yet.

I mean from the repo, using pacman.

I just upgrade to the new version on my i686 box. Maybe you might have to wait for your mirror to sync?

Also, the new version for x86_64 isn't out yet, so if you're using 64 bit, you'll need to wait a little longer.

colbert · 2008-07-29 19:03:55

I just upgraded via pacman and using newest ffmpegthumbnailer, issue is still unresolved

delacruz · 2008-07-29 19:04:35

zodmaner wrote:

Also, the new version for x86_64 isn't out yet, so if you're using 64 bit, you'll need to wait a little longer.

i am using 64 bit. i will have to wait.

for those using a 32 bit machine does the fix the problem?

zodmaner · 2008-07-29 19:09:57

colbert wrote:

I just upgraded via pacman and using newest ffmpegthumbnailer, issue is still unresolved

Like I said, the issue with the avi file appears to be an upstream one that haven't been solve yet.

Last edited by zodmaner (2008-07-29 19:21:49)

delacruz · 2008-07-29 19:27:51

zodmaner wrote:

Like I said, the issue with the avi file appears to be an upstream one that haven't been solve yet.

my avi and wmv do not produce thumbnails.

zodmaner · 2008-07-30 18:14:07

It seems that community repository for x86_64 is having problem at the moment:

http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-gene … 08188.html

So it looks like we will have to wait a while longer to get the new version, unfortunately.

PS. If you don't want to wait for the update, you can also recompile ffmpegthumbnailer using ABS.

Last edited by zodmaner (2008-07-30 18:14:31)

delacruz · 2008-08-06 19:38:51

after some updates SOME of the avi work but not all.

zodmaner wrote:

the issue with the avi file appears to be an upstream one that haven't been solve yet.

what exactly do you mean by upstream?

Last edited by delacruz (2008-08-06 19:39:07)

Perry3D · 2008-08-09 19:55:16

Same problem here. Some files work, some not.

I'm getting this error:

 $  ffmpegthumbnailer -i test.avi -o thumbnail.png
ffmpegthumbnailer: libavformat/avidec.c:1029: avi_read_seek: Assertion `st2->time_base.den == ast2->rate' failed.

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