Student's Outlet

I have currently installed Lucid Lynx in my laptop’s system and this is the first bug I have seen, video thumbnails won’t load. All the thumbnails for images and PDF files are loading.

What I mean about the thumbnails are the screenshot preview of the video, not the generic thumbnail.

So, here are the necessary solutions I have found in the Internet:

• Check Nautilus preference (open any directory) then go to Edit Menu, Preference, and then the Preview Tab. Now, you could modify the settings.

* Video thumbnails should be automatic if you have a default gnome install and your gstreamer supports the codecs of the video.

• Next step would be deleting your cache for thumbnails. You could just point yourself to ~/.thumbnails or /home/username/.thumbnails delete its content, or maybe the directory itself (don’t worry, it would automatically created in the future as long as your file wants to load a thumbnails).
• Last solution I found is checking your codecs. I tried installing mplayer and the ffmpeg
  • sudo apt-get install mplayer
  • sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

  But here’s a package, which i think could help you to play restricted formats:

  • sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras