Movies are not shown

Binary package hint: gthumb

When a movie (*.avi or else) is in the selected folder, nothing is shown. For the user, it looks like it's not there. Opening the same folder with Nautilus, (off course) shows the movie file.

I understand that avi-files are not handled with gThumb, probably because it's not on the white list of supported image types. I can live with that.

But it's *very* inconvenient if you have to open Nautilus to view the movie, provided you *know* that the file resides there...

My proposal: show the file, maybe with a thumbnail (but this is not necessary). Doubli click on the item opens the connected application (Totem for example).

As a step further: why is it not possible to add comments to a unsupported file? When that *can* be done, I can even find my movies back with the search function within gThumb, that will be great!

See also which is related but not quite the same:
"Wishlist: Minimal support for unsupported file formats"
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gthumb/+bug/42508