Use IMDB Art For Video Thumbnails In Nautilus

Want your video thumbnails in nautilus or thunar to display their official artwork from imdb? Say hello to imdb-thumbnail!

Download

Grab the official .deb file from the imdb-thumbnail launchpad @ : –

• https://launchpad.net/imdb-thumbnailer

Installation

Once you’ve grabbed the .deb do what comes natural and install it! 

Now comes the boring bit.

Configure

First off we need to let Nautilus know to use it.

• imdb-thumbnailer –set-nautilus

Now we need to let the script know where you keep your videos: –

• gedit ~/.imdb-thumbnailer/config

Now just add the path to where you keep your videos after: –

• films_path[1]=

You can add as many paths as you like, just place separately afterthe “films_path[x]=” line. Like so: –

• films_path[1]=/home/joey/Videos/Movies
• films_path[2]=/home/joey/Videos/TV Shows
• films_path[3]=/home/joey/Trailers/to be released

Examples
For example, if you keep your videos in your ~/Videos folder then you’d put: –

• films_path[1]=/Home/Videos/

If you kept them on an external drive you may need to put something similar to this: –

• films_path[1]=/usr/media/external\ drive/movies

Though it’d be far easier to simply create a ‘link’ to your movies folder and put it in your Home/Videos folder! In the above case this’d be as simple as then putting: –

• films_path[1]=/Home/Videos/movies

Almost there!
Finally we need to edit one last file.

• gedit ~/.bashrc

Paste the following at the very end of the file: –

• alias imdb-up=’find /path/to/your/videos* -type f | while read -r line ; do imdb-thumbnailer -u “$line” ; done’

Sweeeeet!