Tumblerd causes system crash (OOM)

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi,

First of all my usual thanks for xfce :)

> I figure that we'll need to drop the GStreamer plugin and replace
> it with something new. It's just too buggy and the code was written by
> someone else who is not involved with Xfce or Tumbler development at
> all.
Glad to hear the issue will be dealt with (one or the other way), my
main concern was out-of-the-box experience.

> Just curious: why was FFmpeg dropped in the first case?
My guess is to support more formats than "just" those supported by ffmpeg.

- Clemens

2012/2/17 Mathias Brodala <info at noctus.net>:
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> Hi.
>
> Jannis Pohlmann, 17.02.2012 01:44:
>> I figure that we'll need to drop the GStreamer plugin [from
>> tumbler] and replace it with something new. It's just too buggy and
>> the code was written by someone else who is not involved with Xfce
>> or Tumbler development at all.
>
> Just curious: why was FFmpeg dropped in the first case? The current
> Gstreamer thumbnailer is pretty much useless for me unless I install
> the gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg package which obviously passes the job back
> to FFmpeg in the end.
>
> Small related nitpick: the Gstreamer movie thumbnails don't have a
> movie strip overlay like the ones generated via FFmpeg had. Any way to
> bring this back?
>
>
> Regards, Mathias
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