Hi again, Eric, I'll talk to the team lead about how to proceed on this, but you're right, a blurb about recommended GStreamer components in general might be helpful - the 'free' versions of plugins-bad and plugins-ugly Fedora has by default don't seem to want to thumbnail or play anything more exotic than Motion JPEG.
Thanks again for the feedback, -c On 20/03/2013, eric L <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe this should be listed somewhere in the installation instructions or > wiki. > > Before I installed gstreamer1-libav, upon starting shotwell I got a long > running "Updating Database" message. This happened every time I started and > nothing seemed to change. > > After I installed gstreamer1-libav, my video thumbnails were recreated. > After I let that finish and restarted shotwell, shotwell is way more > responsive at startup. > > btw, for Fedora 18, gstreamer1-libav is in the rpmfusion repo. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > -- --------------------------- "I don't know what (b² - 4ac) equals, and I don't care," Tom said indiscriminately. _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
