The bug is years old without activity nor recent similar report, closing as deprecate. You can open a new bug if that's still an issue though
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1226212 Title: No video thumbnails on sftp Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 13.04 Release: 13.04 --- $ sudo apt-cache policy nautilus nautilus: Installed: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu16 Candidate: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu16 Version table: *** 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu16 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status --- Nautilus doesn't create video thumbnails on sftp since quantal (12.10) The following warning is thrown: (nautilus:32597): GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: Unable to create loader for mime type video/x-msvideo: Unrecognized image file format (nautilus:32597): GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: Error creating thumbnail for sftp://user@server/media/storage/file.avi: Unrecognized image file format Affects all video formats on sftp. Thumbnails are shown for local files and thumbnails are shown for images on sftp. All necessary codecs are installed on both machines. And they're both running ubuntu 13.04 (Issue first popped up after 12.10 upgrade) There appears to be a related bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/1084869 But the problem exists even if I switch to ffmpeg-thumbnailer To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1226212/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp