Can't display the thumbnails of HEVC Main10P and VP9 codec video

Question

I hate totem player, it is useless to me, so I installed the ffmpegthumbnailer, removed totem player, and changed the default thumbnailer to it by following steps.

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg ffmpegthumbnailer gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

Then deleted thumbnail cache:

rm ~/.thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/*
rm ~/.thumbnails/normal/*

I then made a change in /usr/share/thumbnailers/totem.thumbnailer

from this:

[Thumbnailer Entry]
TryExec=/usr/bin/totem-video-thumbnailer
Exec=/usr/bin/totem-video-thumbnailer -s %s %u %o

to this:

[Thumbnailer Entry]
TryExec=ffmpegthumbnailer
Exec=ffmpegthumbnailer -s %s -i %i -o %o -c png -f -t 10

But it can't generate the thumbnails from HEVC Main10P and VP9 codec videos, what should I do?

Which version of Ubuntu? If Wily try adding: sudo apt-get install libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56 — andrew.46, Mar 25 '16 at 04:12
Trusty does not have FFmpeg so you have this from PPA? If so you need appropriate support from FFmpeg for hevc and VP9... — andrew.46, Mar 25 '16 at 04:17
There is a similar package called libavcodec-ffmpeg56, and it has been installed. — JulianLai, Mar 25 '16 at 04:19
This one: https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/trusty-media — JulianLai, Mar 25 '16 at 06:31

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 26 '16 at 04:26

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I have found the answer, I need to install the newer version of ffmpegthumbnailer and libffmpegthumbnailer4.

https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/testing6/+build/7730885

Just download them and install.

answered Mar 26 '16 at 04:26

JulianLai

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Can't display the thumbnails of HEVC Main10P and VP9 codec video

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