For Ubuntu 14.04 LTS users I've personally used a solution that uses totem or ffmpegthumbnailer instead, available via https://launchpad.net/~timo-jyrinki/+archive/ubuntu/shotwell:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:timo-jyrinki/shotwell sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade sudo apt install ffmpegthumbnailer
The current patch uses ffmpegthumbnailer because of a GStreamer bug that did get fixed already in May 2014 but I just didn't switch back to the Totem thumbnailer.
For Ubuntu 14.04 LTS users I've personally used a solution that uses totem or ffmpegthumbnailer instead, available via https:/ /launchpad. net/~timo- jyrinki/ +archive/ ubuntu/ shotwell:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:timo- jyrinki/ shotwell
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install ffmpegthumbnailer
The current patch uses ffmpegthumbnailer because of a GStreamer bug that did get fixed already in May 2014 but I just didn't switch back to the Totem thumbnailer.