No previews for movie files

[wifon]

Hi
I have a problem, I don't see any thumbnails of movie files. By movie files I mean mp4's, mkv, wmv, webm, .ts - these I have noticed so far
Thumbnails are generated only for pictures and pdf files (again, these are the ones I have noticed)
I'm on nearly fresh install of Linux Mint 19.1 as I have installed system from scratch after upgrading to SSD drive at Monday.

Nemo is set to show previews for local files only, with a size limit of 32GB, so size of the files shouldn't be an issue. Even if it would, then why 1-2MB webms don't get previews generated?

Should I install any additional packages to see thumbs?

[smurphos]

Can you report the output of inxi -Fxz and apt policy mint-meta-codecs and apt policy xplayer all run in a terminal. Copy the output from the terminal output and paste into your rely in between [code][/code] tags.

At least on Cinnamon xplayer provides the video thumbnailer function by default and needs codecs installed to do so.

[trytip]

apt install ffmpegthumbnailer if you don't have it

[wifon]

Can you report the output of inxi -Fxz and apt policy mint-meta-codecs and apt policy xplayer all run in a terminal. Copy the output from the terminal output and paste into your rely in between [code][/code] tags.

At least on Cinnamon xplayer provides the video thumbnailer function by default and needs codecs installed to do so.

Oh lol, now I know what is the issue - installed xplayer and now everything works. As I use mpv to watch movies, xplayer was one of the first things I've removed from my system. Thank you!

[MrGrimm]

Can you report the output of inxi -Fxz and apt policy mint-meta-codecs and apt policy xplayer all run in a terminal. Copy the output from the terminal output and paste into your rely in between [code][/code] tags.

At least on Cinnamon xplayer provides the video thumbnailer function by default and needs codecs installed to do so.

Oh lol, now I know what is the issue - installed xplayer and now everything works. As I use mpv to watch movies, xplayer was one of the first things I've removed from my system. Thank you!

you'll find smplayer is the best player for linux.

[Hoser Rob]

... you'll find smplayer is the best player for linux.

Agree 100% but if xplayer (which is the default video player I think) works with no fiddling I'd go with that solution. I suspect it has better integration with the DE for such things.

BTW SMplayer is a front end for mpv now, though you can install mplayer and use that instead. That's what I do because it works as well for me and I know the settings better. If you're talking about old hardware mplayer may be a better bet anyway, mpv has broken a lot of compatibility with old machines.

[MrGrimm]

see i've checked out mplayer itself and for my personal taste sm does the trick. yea someone just suggest switching in settings on sm to mpv and when i did it dropped my volume through the floor.