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…

[image] Sakiko Togawa: --uninstall rpmfusion-free-release --uninstall rpmfusion-nonfree-release --install rpmfusion-free-release --install rpmfusion-nonfree-release This command installs the thumbnailer and codecs for thumbnail generation and will reboot once completed: why do you uninstall …

Thank you so much for the solution, It would be great if in the welcome screen there would be an option to install those codecs in the same way you can activate third party repositories nowadays.

This is not possible due to legal reasons.

Why Ubuntu can put it as an option on the installer and Fedora can’t?

I can not speak about Ubuntu as I don’t know. For Fedora, see: FAQ - RPM Fusion Enabling the RPM Fusion repositories :: Fedora Docs RPM Fusion Legal Question - #2 by jflory7 Fedora Legal Resources :: Fedora Docs

Hi again, Thank you so much for your help, I was wondering, is there a way to achieve the same thing but by adding just those specific files on the repo line somehow, I’m afraid that the repo will change other native packages or break within a Fedora release upgrade

I think it is possible, but libavcodec-freeworld and ffmpegthumbnailer seldom cause issues during upgrades. You can use distrobox to create a Fedora 40 container and install RPMFusion repo, ffmpegthumbnailer, and libavcodec-freeworld in the container. Then, within the distrobox container, use the …

libavcodec-freeworld is your package of choice. It is really just a plugin for Fedoras restricted codecs, and adds them in. there may always be sync issues, but if you do automatic upgrades in the background, this will not be noticeable. You might not get an update for 1-2 days but this is simply h…

I see that there’s no easy fix, I hope Fedora will implement at least the option to enable a codec repo on gnome-software like they currently do with steam and nvidia. Thank you all for your support!! :grinning:

Some video thumbnails on Nautilus are not generated on Silverblue 40

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

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