On 4/16/21 8:51 PM, Tim via users wrote:
On Fri, 2021-04-16 at 11:27 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
> given a video file and an png file to output it fails on my system
> also (and that is with selinux as permissive and as root, so it seems
> to have many issues and is simply broken in most if not all use
> cases), and I don't know that I have seen a video thumbnail in a
> while in gthumb and similar tools.
The file browsers on Gnome/MATE haven't been able to create thumbnails
for video files on my computers in many years. Nothing that I tried
made it work again, and I gave up long ago.
It was a handy feature being able to see some image inside of a
stupidly named video file, to work out which was which.
My experience is that sometimes I do get images from the video, and
sometimes I just get a right-pointing arrow centered in an old-fashioned
CRT TV screen. I haven't been able to discern a pattern as to when I
get which. I do notice that the odds of getting pictures is better when
the display is in grid mode rather than list mode.