Graphical thumbnails of movies?

[Jeffrey Burns]

On Mon, 2005-21-02 at 19:03 -0500, Dan8827 wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> When I switched from FC1 to FC3, I found I didn't care for the default
> thumbnailer that FC3 used by default - think it was part of one of the
> gstreamer packages, or was it totem?

[jeff at bender ~]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/gst-thumbnail
nautilus-media-0.8.1-3

> [snip]
> 
> Anyway, because I went through all of that, I had to figure out how to
> tell Fedora to switch thumbnailers, and I think I can shed some light on
> the original question.  Thumbnail generation is handled in gconf, which
> you can edit via the applications menu - go to System Tools, then
> Configuration Editor.  Navigate to /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers.  For
> each media type, I have the value "totem-video-thumbnailer %u %o".
> Prior to installing totem-xine, it was something that I can't recall,
> but perhaps someone else on this list could provide.

My value is a bit different from yours. All but one of my video
thumnailing 'command' keys is set to:

/usr/bin/totem-video-thumbnailer -s %s %u %o.

The original thumbnail command is/was:

/usr/bin/gst-thumbnail %u %o.

This is still the thumbnailer for
'/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/video at msvideo' and the totem-xine package
appears to have added a 'video at x-msvideo' command key.

> Gnome keeps a record of what files it's tried and failed to thumbnail,
> and won't try again on files it's failed on.  Even after the
> thumbnailing is fixed, you may have to clear this to force it to try
> again.  What I do is I go to ~/.thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory,
> and delete all the files in that directory.

Thanks for the tip.

--
Jeff