Re: totem: thumbnails, nautilus properties, playback broken
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
Thanks Tixy... I removed the hold on the libav* and ffmpeg packages
and allowed aptitude to upgrade to the ones in debian-multimedia and
can confirm they work.
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