[ubuntu-in] preview icon for video files

[Alok Singh Mahor]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Alok Singh Mahor <alokmahor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Alok Singh Mahor <alokmahor at gmail.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> > In Ubuntu 10.04 nautilus is not showing preview icon for video
> >> > files(.avi,mpg etc). its not showing preview icon even for small
> files.
> >> > I tried in nautilus Edit >> preference >> preview (tab) to enable
> >> > preview
> >> > for large file too. but its not show preview icon for any video files.
> >> > please tell me how to enable preview icon for video files.
> >> > thank you
> >>
> >> The preview icons are generated with help of totem which in turn
> >> depends on gstreamer for frame extraction form these video files. Make
> >> sure you have appropriate gstreamer plugins installed. You can verify
> >> this by trying to play the files with totem.
> >
> > I have already installed gstreamer plugins as totem can play all video
> > files.
> > something strange is happening when I open the directory from home , it
> > doesnt show thumnail, I also have created desktop shortcut for that video
> > directory. when I open via shortcut on desktop nautilus shows the
> thumbnail.
>
> Try this. Delete directory .thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/
> in your home directory.
> Command - rm -rf ~/.thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/
>
> thanks Onkar ,problem solved by deleting ~/.thumbnail

>
> Onkar
>
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