Nemo - View Additional Attributes in File details

[anandrkris]

Hi,

For video files, i would like to see the duration of the file w/o opening it. Is this currently available? View > Visible columns has very few options in my opinion.

Regards,
Anand

[eanfrid]

You can install "mediainfo-gui" and create a nemo script action available with a right-click on the file in nemo.

Open your "~/.local/share/nemo/actions" folder and create this file: mediainfo.nemo_action, then put this inside:

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[Nemo Action]
Name=Media properties
Comment=Media properties
Exec=mediainfo-gui %F
Icon-Name=mediainfo
Selection=S
Extensions=mp3;avi;flv;<whatever>;

[anandrkris]

Thanks. It worked like a charm. A helpful and neat workaround but appearing as a column would be better, say, to sort, by duration,etc. I should perhaps put a feature request on this.

Update - https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/337 added here.

[TRZALICA]

Hello!

I installed "mediainfo-gui" and made that file in "~/.local/share/nemo/actions" folder but nothing new happens... Can you help me with this? I don't know where I made a wrong step...

[eanfrid]

So what is the actual content of your "/home/<username>/.local/share/nemo/actions/mediainfo.nemo_action" ?

[TRZALICA]

I put the code you give:

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[Nemo Action]
Name=Media properties
Comment=Media properties
Exec=mediainfo-gui %F
Icon-Name=mediainfo
Selection=S
Extensions=mp3;avi;flv;<whatever>;

[eanfrid]

"<whatever>" is supposed to be a valid file extension in this file

Mine is:

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[Nemo Action]
Name=Propriétés média
Comment=Propriétés Mediainfo
Exec=mediainfo-gui %F
Icon-Name=mediainfo
Selection=S
Extensions=mp3;avi;flv;webm;mp4;mkv;

Also, maybe are you running an older nemo release where scripts support was not yet actually working ?

[TRZALICA]

Haha, silly me!

I'm using Nemo 1.8.3

[TRZALICA]

But still, when I change that, nothing happens... Do I need to do something else?

[anandrkris]

But still, when I change that, nothing happens... Do I need to do something else?

There should be an additional option "Media properties" when you right-click a media file in Nemo. It doesnt show up?

[TRZALICA]

After restart it shows up... Weird, before even for bigger corrections or modifications restart wasn't necessary...

Thanks for help!!

Are there any signs that this will be implemented in Nemo in a near future?? Because, this is quite irritating lapse...

P.S. I still can't see how long video file is on this way... :/

[anandrkris]

Hmm. I am not currentl;y at my home PC where I have this installed. But I remember seeing duration in a pop-up like this.
[rimg]http://pricklytech.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/mediainfo.png[/rimg]

Could you add your comments https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/337 here? If more users request for this, perhaps might get picked up soon.

[TRZALICA]

After I once again do the steps as it was described, it finally works!

I will add my comment on github and I hope that Mint team will add these functionalities soon.

[anandrkris]

Good news. Looks like it is fixed and should be available in daily build ppa shortly, as per developer comments.

[TRZALICA]

Good news. Looks like it is fixed and should be available in daily build ppa shortly, as per developer comments.

But it isn't available yet

[anandrkris]

Its working for me. You have to install nemo-media-columns from the repo.

[TRZALICA]

How to do that? I searched in Synaptic and nothing there... Where did you find that?

[anandrkris]

[url]http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-nightly/ubuntu/[/url] - Check here and add the PPA. Am running development daily build of cinnamon which gives latest updates. Please note it could be unstable although I haven't faced any issues. Obviously, not recommended for production usage.

[TRZALICA]

Thanks! I appreciate your help!

[bobzilla]

Sorry to bump but that line should say

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Exec=mediainfo-gui "%F"

The fix doesn't seem to have made it to the Arch repos yet.