No thumbnails for video or audio files in Workstation file manager (Nautilus)

Problem

In Fedora 43 Beta Workstation, you will see that there are no dynamic thumbnails for video or audio files (with cover art) in the file manager, or in file dialogs. You will only see a generic icon for such files.

Cause

Some changes to the default thumbnailers in Fedora 43 Beta, along with the replacement of the old “totem” video player (which had its own thumbnailer) with the new “Showtime” player (which does not), combined to cause this problem.

Related Issues

Bugzilla report: #2394950

Workarounds

None yet.

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Fixed by this update here.

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