Debian 12: how do I get Gnome Files to display preview thumbnails/icons for large video files? Right now it just shows generic icons

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lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 2y (14 replies)

Roughly how big are these files, and are they stored locally on your machine or mounted over the network (using FUSE, GVFS, or a kernel-based one like NFS?)

I've noticed a few linux file managers are quite cautious loading multimedia thumbnails for networked filesystems mounted with GVFS, not sure of a fix for that aside from looking for a command line utility to mount using FUSE instead

mmababes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (13 replies)

These files are anywhere between 600 MB to 1.5 GB in size and thet are stored locally on my PC.

JoMomma@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y (11 replies)

Make sure you have all the free and non-free video codecs installed

mmababes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (10 replies)

Which ones in specefic?

AVincentInSpace@pawb.social · 1 pts · 2y (9 replies)

Which one are your files encoded with?

(You can check this by running ffprobe on the file.)

mmababes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (8 replies)

Shoot can't install it because it's probably in a repository that is not listed in my sources

AVincentInSpace@pawb.social · 2 pts · 2y (7 replies)

ffprobe is included in the ffmpeg package. For future reference you can find what package contains a file by doing dpkg-query -S /bin/ffprobe (note that the path you give it is relative to /usr)

superbirra@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

lol, no :)

first of all, it only searches for occurrences in already installed packages and is more or less a grep -l xxx /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list. So you can't use it in order to determine which package to install, for that you use https://packages.debian.org or apt-file instead.

Secondly, what you search for isn't relative to anything (wtf):

$ dpkg-query -S /etc/grub.d/                                  
fwupd, grub-common: /etc/grub.d
mmababes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Got the command to work. Here's the info for one of the files for which a preview thumbnail/icon isn't available:

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y

Look for preview size in the settings for your file manager and increase it.

bartolomeo@suppo.fi · 4 pts · 2y

Something similar happened to me once and installing tumblerd fixed it.

ShouldIHaveFun@feddit.ch · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

There should be an option in the setting to choose the max file size for which to generate the thumbnails.

mmababes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

This is what I see when I open Gnome Files, click on the icon with three lines, and select Preferences (there's no option for choosing the max size):

cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Through the power of interpretative dance.

mactan@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

classic gnome moment