Re: totem: thumbnails, nautilus properties, playback broken
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Tixy <debianuser@tixy.myzen.co.uk> 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.
Thank you Tixy for pointing me towards that bug report and a solution!
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557260
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Daniel Armstrong
http://wooush.com
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