On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 18:07:08 +0000 Stephan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Verb=FCcheln?=
<verbuech...@posteo.de> wrote:
This bug appears back some time ago. For some months, video thumbnails
failed to generate on multiple of my machines. Since then, I was trying
to figure out the cause.
It only seemed to affect h264, but not all videos were affected. I even
had multiple videos saved from Youtube, some were generating
thumbnails, others were not. I could not find any difference in the
codec parameters.
Adding the -l option in /usr/share/thumbnailers/totem.thumbnailer
worked to prevent this bug. Does this option have any downsides?
Regards
Hello,
it looks like this option makes it not setting the process limits [1] [2].
Simon wrote it that way before:
totem-video-thumbnailer sets a resource limit ... to avoid a runaway
thumbnailing process consuming disproportionate system resources.
Kind regards,
Bernhard
[1]
https://sources.debian.org/src/totem/43.0-2/src/totem-video-thumbnailer.c/#L587
587 { "no-limit", 'l', G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &time_limit,
"Don't limit the thumbnailing time to 30 seconds", NULL },
[2]
https://sources.debian.org/src/totem/43.0-2/src/totem-resources.c/?hl=111#L111
