Re: Video thumbnails

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>]

William Lovaton wrote:
> Hi Jaap,
>
> El mar, 14-12-2004 a las 20:43 +0100, Jaap Haitsma escribió:
>
> > > > No they are all just sub directories of my home directory which is on my 
> > > > local harddisk
> > >
> > >
> > > Try deleting ~/.thumbnails
> >
> > Thanks that solves is.
> > Do you have an explanation for it, why it happened. Should a bug be filed??
>
>
> It is not a bug.  What happens is that nautilus caches all the info in
> ~/.thumbnails so it can process things faster after wards.
>
> If the file is modified in some way nautilus catch it and then
> regenerate the cache.  In your case the file was unmodified so it
> doesn't realize it can create a new thumbnail.
>
> For example, if nautilus can't generate video thumbnails it will show
> you the mime type icon corresponding to that file.  If then, you install
> totem, nautilus will use the info from the cache which is the icon not
> the thumbnail.
>
> So, in short... erase ~/.thumbnails every time you need.
In fact you only need to erase ~/.thumbnails/failed
So that for instance the disadvantage that Xavier is mentioning of that 
the GIMP has to regenerate the thumbnails.

The thing what happened with me is that when I put the video on my PC my 
thumbnailer was not working. After a few upgrades of gstreamer it 
started work but there was an entry in the failed directory.

So the only thing that should happen IMHO is that Nautilus should 
remove the ~/.thumbnails/failed every 3 months or so.

Jaap