totem: thumbnails, nautilus properties, playback broken
Hi... I am currently running Debian testing upgraded with the latest
Gnome and totem. I have installed w32codecs and I think I have all the
required gstreamer plugins:
$ dpkg -l | grep gstreamer
ii gir1.0-gstreamer-0.10 0.10.25-4
Description: GObject introspection data for
ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.25-7
GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.9-2
FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer
ii gstreamer0.10-lame 0.10.13-0.1
GStreamer lame plugin
ii gstreamer0.10-nice 0.0.10-2
ICE library (GStreamer plugin)
ii gstreamer0.10-pitfdll 0.9.1.1+cvs20080215-1
GStreamer plugin for using MS Windows binary
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.17-1
GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.25-7
GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.17-1
GStreamer plugins from the "good" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad 0.10.17-0.1
GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.13-2
GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set
ii gstreamer0.10-tools 0.10.25-4
Tools for use with GStreamer
ii gstreamer0.10-x 0.10.25-7
GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pango
ii gstreamer0.10-x264 0.10.13-0.1
GStreamer x264 plugin
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 0.10.25-7
GStreamer libraries from the "base" set
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.25-4
Core GStreamer libraries and elements
ii totem-gstreamer 2.28.4-1
A simple media player for the GNOME desktop
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.
Searching online I have tried a few suggestions with no success. I
have confirmed in gconf that totem-video-thumbnailer is enabled and
that the program is installed. I have deleted the ~/.thumbnails/fail
directory to have Nautilus try to re-generate the thumbnails. I notice
that both 'totem-gstreamer' and 'totem-xine' are marked as
transitional packages... I have tried un-installing and re-installing
both of them but neither makes a difference.
Something must have changed in the last 2 weeks because I did a Debian
testing install on another box and installing 'totem-xine' had
everything working just fine.
Any help would be appreciated... Thanks!
--
Daniel Armstrong
http://wooush.com
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