Re: preview file bug?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 12:04 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> Niels Elburg wrote:
> > In Nautilus -> File Managment Preferences -> Preview,
> > there's a "Only for files smaller then : 5MB" option under
> > the frame 'Other Previewable Files'
> > 
> > However, on my Desktop I have a stash of video files
> > ( AVI ) with varying sizes, the smallest one beeing 300 MB
> 
> 
> That limit is not applied to video files. It is only applied to certain 
> types of image files, like jpegs. That is only obvious from reading the 
> source code, however.
> 
> I don't think there is any way to size-limit video thumbnailing.
> 
> There is a bug report about this somewhere, but I can't find it right 
> now... it was probably closed as "notabug".

Yeah, files like videos don't really take longer to thumbnail because
they are larger, so the size limit isn't applied.