Videos not shown in Nautilus

[Vinicius Seixas]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Sometimes when I am browsing a folder with videos (usually AVI files), Nautilus just do not show them. I found out that if I turn off the thumbnail generation (option /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_image_thumbnails=never in gconf-editor) the videos icons come back. It looks like there is a problem with the video thumbnailer, but besides that I think that Nautilus should show the default media icon if it cannot show the thumbnail, it is very annoying and confusing when a file "disappears" from the file browser.

I am using latest update of Karmic.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

$ uname -a
Linux dollhouse 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

$ apt-cache policy nautilus
nautilus:
  Installed: 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 25 00:37:02 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.