For App to be able to create thumbnails and previews for video and audio files uses ffmpeg.
These instructions are specifically for version 8.0 (Jessie) of Debian/xbian.
Configure APT
Note: the commands in this section must be run as root
Add the following to the bottom of /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie main non-free
deb-src http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie main non-free
Refresh apt’s package database, by typing:
apt-get update
Allow apt to trust deb-multimedia’s key, by typing:
apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring
Refresh apt’s package database again, by typing:
apt-get update
apt-get install ffmpeg
Or from source
Install Libraries
Install library packages and build tools:
apt-get install build-essential libmp3lame-dev libvorbis-dev libtheora-dev libspeex-dev yasm pkg-config libfaac-dev libopenjpeg-dev libx264-dev
Install Ffmpeg
Note: we recommend that the commands in this section are run as a non-root user (although they should still work if run as root)
Download and extract the ffmpeg source code:
mkdir software
cd software
wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-2.7.2.tar.bz2
cd ..
mkdir src
cd src
tar xvjf ../software/ffmpeg-2.7.2.tar.bz2
Move into the source directory:
cd ffmpeg-2.7.2
Configure, build and install:
./configure –enable-gpl –enable-postproc –enable-swscale –enable-avfilter –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libvorbis –enable-libtheora –enable-libx264 –enable-libspeex –enable-shared –enable-pthreads –enable-libopenjpeg –enable-libfaac –enable-nonfree
make
sudo make install
Run “/sbin/ldconfig” as root.