Description of problem: Thumbnails of videos are simply the generic 'video' icon, stretched to the appropriate aspect ratio. This applies to videos of several different formats (including Ogg Theora) of videos previously imported. In fact, starting Shotwell for the first time after upgrading from Fedora 16, I did see the correct thumbnails: but they were replaced one by one by the generic icon as I watched. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): shotwell-0.12.3-1.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: 100%
FWIW, .shotwell/thumbs128/*.jpg are identical, as are .shotwell/thumbs360/*.jpg. Running shotwell-video-thumbnailer manually on one of the imported videos produces a correct PNG thumbnail.
This still happens in Fedora 18, shotwell-0.13.1-1.fc18.x86_64.
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FWIW, shotwell-video-thumbnailer by hand is no longer even producing correct thumbnails any more. Instead it says: Failed to play the file: couldn't get state. (Tried with avi, webm, and mp4 video files, which all play fine in totem)
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"yum install ffmpegthumbnailer" from rpmfusion will enable (fast) video thumbnails. For a good mesure I usually install also: gnome-xcf-thumbnailer raw-thumbnailer gnome-exe-thumbnailer gnome-nds-thumbnailer
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