Re: totem: thumbnails, nautilus properties, playback broken

[Tixy <debianuser@tixy.myzen.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 20:13 -0500, Daniel Armstrong wrote:
> Hi... I am currently running Debian testing upgraded with the latest
> Gnome and totem.
<snip>
> When I open Nautilus:
> 
> * totem-video-thumbnailer fails to create video thumbnails for almost
> all formats (only mpeg thumbnails are generated)
> * totem fails to play the files
> * Right-clicking on the file in Nautilus and choosing 'Properties'
> opens a "Creating properties window" and stops at that point...
> 
> Mplayer and xine *are* able to play the files... its only totem - and
> by extension Nautilus - that is having problems with these videos.
<snip>

I got something similar and discovered a Debian bug report which had a
reply indicating that the problem was with packages in the
debian-multimedia archive. Downgrading libavcodec52 and libavformat52 to
the ones in the Debian archive fixed the problems for me.

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Tixy