[email protected] wrote: > On Thu, 14 May 2026, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > [email protected] wrote: > > The good news is that they are cached, so they only get > > generated once, and will only be regenerated if it goes missing > > or if the cached icon is older than the file it represents. > > > > The bad news is that they do have to be generated, and it does > > take time. > > > > The other good news is that if you want, you can pre-generate > > thumbnails. man tumbler, man ffmpegthumbnailer. > > can you elaborate on the specifics of how to pregenerate thumbnails so thunar > can associate them with the correct file
Sure. Read the man pages. tumbler creates thumbnails on request, but invokes other programs to do it. The thumbnails go in ~/.cache/thumbnails/... ffmpegthumbnailer is one of those other programs, one which can read almost all video formats. So if you run ffmpegthumbnailer over your video directories, specifying the output to the proper cache, you accomplish your goal. -dsr-
