Before I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04, thumbnails on video files worked nicely, after the upgrade, thumbnails aren't generating on video files and only on video files, most of them are .mkv files. I have some .pdf files and they all have thumbnails. I have tried to clear the thumb cache, but no luck.
4 Answers
Please ensure that the necessary packages are installed by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly totem libxine1-ffmpeg
Also, please delete the thumbnails that failed to load by running the following command:
rm ~/.thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/*
In Ubuntu 13.10, the folder changes to: .cache/thumbnails, so you should delete those failed files instead:
rm ~/.cache/thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/*
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Just getting these packages worked for me, without no need to delete any thumbnails. Thanks! Aug 22, 2012 at 20:05
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I've done all this and I can't seem to get any thumbnail to show. Any, not just video. This happen after I deleted the .thumbnails folder, I see that they are being created inside that folder but nautilus is not showing them– FelipeSep 28, 2012 at 18:20
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1In 12.10 I have to install
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
to get it work with nautilus. Mar 11, 2013 at 7:55 -
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Last command (to remove thumbnails that failed to load) was my problem. Thanks– 842MonoJul 14, 2014 at 13:59
I followed the instructions in this forum and it worked perfectly.
Install libxine1-ffmpeg.
sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg
Then to force nautilus to generate new thumbnails execute
rm -r ~/.thumbnails/fail
rm -r ~/.thumbnails/normal
killall -9 nautilus
These commands will remove (delete) thumbnails from these folders.
Open nautilus again and you should be able to see thumbnails for all your videos.
I had to re install my ubuntu to get the video thumbnails working again, it was annoying. I couldn't fin any other way.
I installed ffmpegthumbnailer
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sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly totem libxine1-ffmpeg
It works in 13.10