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Posted by Invader on Oct 19 2005 @ 06:05  :: 3450 unique visits

Developer desktops

Fedora Core 4, Gnome, currently a Propaganda (anybody remember them?!? --> http://www.ibiblio.org/propaganda/) tiled background (cron job rotated every 30 minutes...sometimes tiles, sometimes images...keeps it interesting).  Nothing too awefully exciting.  :)

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1. On Oct 20 2005 @ 02:09 guest wrote:

I don't guess you can respond to me, but I'll still ask a question.  How did you get the thumbnail image you did on those AVI files?  Surely it's not just picking the first frame like Windows does, is it just a random frame from the middle or what?

2. On Oct 21 2005 @ 00:15 Invader wrote:

It's part of the Gnome desktop (Nautilus file manager).  If you open up the Gconf Editor (gconf-editor) and go desktop->gnome->thumbnailers you will get a list of MIME types.  Under each MIME type is the command to run and whether or not the thumbnailer is enabled.

Most of the video thumbnails are created by the app "totem-video-thumbnailer" which is part of Totem package (I'm running totem-1.0.4) and I think uses gstreamer (at least on my machine).  Of course, you can change it to use any application or script you want, but totem's app does an admirable job once the gstreamer audio/video plugins are up to date.

To answer your question...Nautilus runs the thumbnailer, and, in this case, totem-video-thumbnailer grabs a frame a little ways in to the video.  I haven't checked close enough to see if it's a certain % or time distance in...but the thumbnails are working 10 times better than in FC3 (which was buggy and took some setup to get everything working...like MP3 and MKV previewing).  Gnome 2.10 in FC4 has pretty straightforward thumbnailing that actually looks very clean...

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