[SOLVED] No thumbnails for webm files in Debian 8 Stable (Jessie) using MATE.

linustalman · 10-29-2016, 06:05 AM

Hi.

In icon view, I have no thumbnail for webm files in Debian 8 Stable (Jessie) using MATE. It already has ffmpegthumbnailer installed.

Any fix?

Thanks.

linustalman · 11-01-2016, 04:09 PM

Anyone?

linustalman · 11-04-2016, 09:27 AM

Bump.

Jjanel · 11-05-2016, 01:08 AM

The little icons in Caja (not Nautilus); you don't run tumblerd ('nailer)? So, wrong-guess...
Edit: oooops, I think you already did this. Sorry, I don't 'do' GUIs. But I just learned a lot

This:? https://github.com/dirkvdb/ffmpegthumbnailer/issues/113

linustalman · 11-05-2016, 02:05 PM

I manually renamed a webm video to mkv and the thumbnail appeared right away.

Would it matter if I renamed all my .webm files to .mkv? Would there be a downside?

linustalman · 11-07-2016, 08:06 AM

Echoz on #debian helped me out.

In /usr/share/thumbnailers, add video/webm; to the file ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer.

linustalman · 11-07-2016, 01:49 PM

I also noticed that there were no thumbnails for .ogv video files. Adding 'ogg' like above solves that.

ondoho · 11-08-2016, 11:43 AM

thanks for posting the solution!

on my system /usr/share/thumbnailers is a directory with config files.
could you add the contents and exact names of the files you added?

linustalman · 11-08-2016, 01:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

thanks for posting the solution!

on my system /usr/share/thumbnailers is a directory with config files.
could you add the contents and exact names of the files you added?

Hi ondoho, you're welcome.

The 3 files are:
atril.thumbnailer
ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer
mate-font-viewer.thumbnailer

The only one I edited was ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer and this is the content of it:

Code:

[Thumbnailer Entry]
TryExec=ffmpegthumbnailer
Exec=ffmpegthumbnailer -i %i -o %o -s %s -f
MimeType=video/jpeg;video/mp4;video/mpeg;video/quicktime;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-wm;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-msvideo;video/x-flv;video/x-matroska;video/webm;video/ogg;