Hello Totem can both play them and Nautilus makes thumbnails. This worked in shotwell 13.1 from stable-ppa but stopped working when I upgraded to the daily-ppa.
So OK, issue 6452 created. http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/6452 Rgds//Thomas On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Lucas Beeler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > The general rule is this: take one of your video files and open it in > Totem. It Totem can play it, Shotwell should be able to thumbnail it > (since they're both wrappers around the underlying GStreamer > infrastructure). If Totem can't play the video, then that's a > GStreamer issue. If Totem can play a video but Shotwell can't > thumbnail it, then that's a Shotwell bug and you should definitely > open a bug ticket for it! > > Lucas > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Thomas Novin <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm just about to import 565 files/30GB video-files, if I do it now >> without getting any thumbnails, will these be created later when this >> is fixed or should I wait? >> >> Rgds//Thomas >> >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Thomas Novin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> Imported three other file types from three other cameras we have had. >>> >>> .wmv, .mov and .3gp-files. >>> >>> Neither got a thumbnail in Shotwell after import. >>> >>> I have *lots* of gstreamer packages. >>> >>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/5569204/ >>> >>> Rgds//Thomas >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Clint Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi Thomas, >>>> >>>> On behalf of the team here, I'm sorry you're encountering this. This >>>> is actually quite curious; it doesn't sound quite like anything we've >>>> ever had reported. >>>> >>>> Looking at the line in the error message, it looks like the video >>>> thumbnailer is producing invalid image data somehow, although why this >>>> might be the case is a mystery. Are you seeing it with all videos, or >>>> just videos of a certain format? Also, just for completeness' sake, >>>> what GStreamer plugins packages (if any) do you have installed? >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> -c >>>> >>>>> From: Thomas Novin <[email protected]> >>>>> Subject:Re: [Shotwell] [shotwell - Bug #3314] Wrong recognizing of Video >>>>> recoring date (3gp) >>>>> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:28:31 +0100 >>>>> To: shotwell <[email protected]> >>>>> >>>>> Hello >>>>> >>>>> I really wanted this so I upgraded to the daily ppa. Installed >>>>> version 0.13.1+2321~quantal1. >>>>> >>>>> After this, no video thumbnails can be created. Tailing >>>>> .cache/shotwell/shotwell.log during an import I get this: >>>>> >>>>> L 30370 2013-02-24 10:17:05 [WRN] VideoSupport.vala:235: Error creating >>>>> pixbuf: Unrecognized image file format >>>>> >>>>> Something wrong with this version regarding thumbnails? >>>>> >>>>> Rgds//Thomas >> _______________________________________________ >> Shotwell mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
