Re: totem: thumbnails, nautilus properties, playback broken

[Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>]

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 09:00 +0000, Tixy wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thought I'd just let people know that today's Testing update to
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg makes the debian-mutimedia libavformat52 package
work again.

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Tixy