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Bug 390988 - Video preview
Video preview
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Thumbnails
2.14.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 547992 596713 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-12-30 14:48 UTC by Vinicius Depizzol
Modified: 2011-09-13 05:17 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Vinicius Depizzol 2006-12-30 14:48:16 UTC 
Nautilus should preview videos when the user move the cursor on it, just like audio preview.
Comment 1 Johannes H. Jensen 2008-08-10 16:57:55 UTC 
Do we actually want this? If I receive the go signal, I'll start implementing this :-)

Any thoughts on how we should do this? Just have GStreamer render to the icon widget? Or maybe we can use totem's video widget?
Comment 2 Johannes H. Jensen 2008-08-11 02:33:23 UTC 
Alright, so I've hacked a bit on this and discovered that this might be difficult to achieve. As far as I can understand, NautilusIconCanvas uses a single EelCanvas to render all of the icons. So there's no per-icon X window to render the video on with GstXOverlay[1]. So far I've only managed to render the video on top of the entire icon view. Fun :P

A hack would be to somehow clip and resize the video correctly and place it over the corresponding icon, but this doesn't seem right. Could some nautilus guys please enlighten me on how this could best be achieved?

[1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-base-libs/html/gst-plugins-base-libs-gstxoverlay.html
Comment 3 Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek 2008-10-11 14:07:28 UTC 
Johannes, go :D !
Comment 4 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-10-11 14:23:40 UTC 
*** Bug 547992 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Fabricio Godoy 2008-10-11 15:03:09 UTC 
This could be a option on nautilus preferences.
I would change priority to Low.
Comment 6 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-05-02 14:21:29 UTC 
*** Bug 596713 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Jonathan Poulter 2011-02-20 02:07:08 UTC 
Was there ever any progress made on this?
Comment 8 Johannes H. Jensen 2011-02-20 03:41:16 UTC 
(In reply to comment #7)
> Was there ever any progress made on this?

No, not really.
Comment 9 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-09-13 02:50:10 UTC 
This is now possible using Sushi [1].

[1] http://blogs.gnome.org/cosimoc/2011/04/29/sushi/