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How to get video thumbnails to show in Ubuntu 20.10?

I tried this solution Thumbnails not showing in video in Ubuntu 18.04 but does not work for 20.10

I currenty can see pdf and jpg thumbnails but not video thumbnails.

Any solution please?

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The answer is here https://askubuntu.com/a/1080512/740291 thanks to Hatsune which is slightly different to HattinGokbori87 solution...

sudo apt install ffmpegthumbnailer

Then I restarted the computer but I still could not see the video's thumbnails in the file manager, so I tried to install another package like this: (edit: this is the important part to get it working for Ubuntu 20.10)

sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-libav

Then cleaned up the directory like this:

rm -r ~/.cache/thumbnails/fail

Re-opened the Ubuntu file manager, it works!

Update: For Ubuntu 20.04 this method still applies (I just upgraded my computer operating system from Ubuntu 19.10 to Ubuntu 20.04). edit: This works for 20.10 also.

jon anotter88998889
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