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Video thumbnailers not working after upgrade from LMDE5 to LMDE6 #185
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All other thumbnailing appears OK.
ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer was missing its trailing semi-colon, but fixing this made no difference. I don't know which thumbnailer gets priority for a duplicated mime type? |
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Since the LMDE6 media didn't come with a So I'd probably call this a BUG fix - but note that since totem is a GNOME video player, the presence of a thumbnailer isn't that unexpected. |
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Xplayer has been retired except for translation updates for quite a while now, not sure why you still need it - there should be no conflict, just ffmpeg As far as I know, based on other similar types of plugins, the priority is based on the order the thumbnailer definition files are read from the disk - from the function that reads the dirs: This isn't something we can do anything about, as the mechanism can't know whatever it chooses is malfunctioning until it tries to use it. |
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I tried re-enabling Video thumbnailing didn't work.So I returned to the previous situation of using This worked correctly - note that whilst I have no xplayer installed, I do have |
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Since the LMDE6 media didn't come with a
totem.thumbnailerfile when it was loaded into a VM (and video thumbnailing works there), I tried disabling the totem.thumbnailer on the live machine - and video thumbnailing works again.So I'd probably call this a BUG fix - but note that since totem is a GNOME video player, the presence of a thumbnailer isn't that unexpected.