Gnome’s file manager Nautilus does a great job of automatically thumbnailing all kinds of files including pretty much any video file.
But, in a fresh Arch Linux install you still need a few gstreamer packages to enable totem-video-thumbnailer to do its job…
1. Install necessary packages (as root):
pacman -Sy --needed totem gstreamer0.10-{{bad,good,ugly,base}{,-plugins},ffmpeg}
2. Delete old video thumbnails to force generation of new ones:
rm -rf ~/.thumbnails/fail
3. Browse a folder of video files in Nautilus:
In some cases you may need to restart Nautlius for the changes to take effect:
killall nautilus
…or simply log out and log in again.
System Info
- Arch Linux – Kernel 2.6.31-ARCH
- Gnome 2.28.0
- packages
gnome&gnome-extra
Source
It’s not necessary to remove the entire ~/.thumbnails directory. Doing that will remove the good thumbnails as well (for instance, the image thumbnails). A better way of doing this is:
rm -rf ~/.thumbnails/fail
Great point, I’ve updated the post with that tip.
Thanks, Sam
I found this article very useful!
thanks, marqz
Thanks! Fixed exactly what I wanted!