Hello, I am currently using Silverblue 40 and I am experiencing an issue where Nautilus is not generating thumbnails for certain videos. Do you have any suggestions on how to resolve this issue?

Hello, welcome to the Fedora community. By default, Nautilus does not generate thumbnails for videos due to patent restrictions. To enable thumbnail generation for common video formats like MP4 and MKV, you first need to add the RPM Ffusion repository , and then install the necessary thumbnailer and…

Some video thumbnails on Nautilus are not generated on Silverblue 40

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siosm (Timothée Ravier) May 13, 2024, 1:08pm 4

See Simplifying updates for RPM Fusion packages (and other packages shipping their own RPM repos)

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Some video thumbnails on Nautilus are not generated on Silverblue 40

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