And on what do you think that rhythmbox is freezing? On the pointed GIF You can try to run that command: - gdb --args gst-launch-0.10 -t filesrc location=/path/to/animated/gif ! decodebin ! fakesink
you will notice that it eats CPU too and doesn't print the information about the song. That comment is basically what rhythmbox is doing to get the title, artist, etc on a song. Now try on a normal song, you will see it works fine. Once you have noted it's eating CPU and not working fine you can do <Ctrl-C> on the gdb prompt and then type "thread apply all bt" and look on what's doing, it's using the gdk gif decoder Does it make sense to you now? If you still disagree could you give some explanation of why? ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 35586 Problem while opening/previewing multi-layered GIF image -- Rhythmbox hang during launch https://launchpad.net/bugs/71208 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs