If you use ‘Nautilus’ (Ubuntu users), then enter the below command. Sudo cp totem.thumbnailer /usr/share/thumbnailers/įor the changes to take effect, you might have to restart the file manager. Once that is done, open your Terminal and enter the below command. Don’t extract it to anywhere else, otherwise the below command will not work. So please download the file from here and extract its content to your ‘Home’ folder. I have changed two lines of code of this original file (called ‘totem.thumbnailer’) and have uploaded it to this blog. We are going to replace a customized configuration file of the ‘totem-video-thumbnailer’ so that every time it is being called by the file manager, it will execute ‘ffmpegthumbnailer’. For that, open your Terminal window and enter the below command.
#HATCH THUMBNAILER INSTALL#
For setting up ‘ffmpegthumbnailer’ please follow the below steps.įirst, let us install the ‘ffmpegthumbnailer’ package. I have written a simple trick to get it working, but because it has been about an year since I last bragged about it -), I decided to come up with a new one.įor this example, I’m using Linux Mint 14 (Cinnamon) but these same steps should work in Ubuntu 12.10 as well. But due to few changes done to ‘Totem’ in the recent past, it stopped working in operating systems like Ubuntu 11.10 and later. It used to work flawlessly in Gnome desktop based distributions in the past. If you are looking for another one, then there is also the famous ‘ffmpegthumbnailer’, which is well known for its blistering speed! 😀 (it is not a new one and has been there for sometime now).
#HATCH THUMBNAILER GENERATOR#
However, ‘totem-video-thumbnailer’ (that is what the application is called) is not the only video thumbnail generator out there, and I cannot remember the exact time frame, I think it was around 2005-2006, there was a MPLayer based video thumbnail generator that was much, much, faster than ‘totem-video-thumbnailer’. Sure it had its issues in the beginning, but nowadays, once you have installed the proper multimedia codecs, it can generate thumbnails of almost all the popular video formats without much difficulty. Like many others, I too have been using the Gnome desktop, even before ‘Totem’ had this feature. Plus, it is also being used to create thumbnails of video files (including ‘previewing’ audio files) as well. Thought it is certainly not my favorite multimedia player, any GNU/Linux distribution that comes with Gnome desktop or make use of its core applications, use ‘Totem’ as the multimedia player.
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