Pragmatically, there is probably nothing we can do about this, short of finding someone who is willing to dig into the codec and figure out why it fails (which, in turn, might involve fixing some problem in the Android media elements.
For what it's worth, the thumbnailer will recover gracefully from this kind of failure, in the sense that, once it has tried to produce a thumbnail for such a video and has failed, it will permanently cache the failure and not try again until the modification time of the video changes. In other words, once the thumbnailer has encountered a failure for such a file, for future requests for a thumbnail of the same file, it will deliver a failure notification instantly. Given the potential cost of fixing the problem compared to how often the problem actually occurs, I'd be inclined to mark this as "won't fix" because it doesn't happen very often that someone takes a video that lasts for less than a second. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gst-plugins-bad1.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1391286 Title: Fails to generate thumbnail for small videos recorded with camera-app Status in Canonical System Image: In Progress Status in gst-plugins-bad1.0 package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in thumbnailer package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Videos with less than one sec recorded by camera-app (like when you click on the record button and immediately stops the recording process) have problems while generating thumbnail. This seems to be a problem to gallery-app since if we have one file like this on the collection the thumbnails took a long time to generate. I added an unit test that seems to fail on this branch: lp:~artmello/thumbnailer/thumbnailer-no_thumbnail_video Attached a video sample that seems to fail To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1391286/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp