Dear all,
I just realize that I can't no longer see video-thumbnails in thunar...I used
to see them, but apparently the creation of video-thumbnails just stop working.

I am on Wheezy 32 bit and I have installed on my system tumbler and
ffmpegthumbnailer.

I try to delete ~/.cache/Thunar and ~/.thumbnails with no success.

Unfortunately, I cannot exactly say when thumbnails stop working, but looking
at aptitude logs I can see a recent ffmpeg upgrade:
ffmpeg 4:0.7.2-1 -> 4:0.7.2-1+b1

Maybe could be related to the problem?

I was uncertain about which package submitting the bug against (thunar?
tumbler? ffmpegthumbnails?) and so I am sorry if chose wrong.

Sorry for my bad English and feel free to ask any additional information.

Best Regards,

Marco MIlone

reassign 647496 tumbler
thanks

First. that looks like a tumbler issue. Could you, when replying, use
“reportbug tumbler” so we have an idea of its dependencies status?

Then, tumbler 0.1.22-1 drops ffmpegthumbnailer and now uses gstreamer
for that. Here it works fine for me, but you might lack some of the
gstreamer plugins needed for the relevant formats. Tumbler right now
only depends on the lib. For information, I do have installed here:

ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad            0.10.22-3                    GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base           0.10.35-1                    GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good           0.10.30-1                    GStreamer plugins from the "good" set

I guess we might add a Recommends on gstreamer-0.10-plugins-base.

Could you check what plugins you have installed and if installing some
other fixes your issue?

Regards,

First of all, thank you very much for your kind reply and sorry me for not
submitting the bug against tumbler.

Then...I checked the gstreamer packages that you tell me and it seems that I
have them all, plus others:

i A gstreamer0.10-alsa              - plugin GStreamer per ALSA
i   gstreamer0.10-gconf             - plugin GStreamer per ottenere
informazioni
i A gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad       - plugin per GStreamer dall'insieme "bad"
i A gstreamer0.10-plugins-base      - plugin GStreamer dall'insieme "base"
i A gstreamer0.10-plugins-good      - plugin GStreamer dall'insieme "good"
i A gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly      - plugin GStreamer dall'insieme "ugly"
i A gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio        - plugin GStreamer per PulseAudio
i A gstreamer0.10-x                 - plugin GStreamer per X11 e Pango
i   libgstreamer-interfaces-perl    - Perl interface to the GStreamer
Interfaces
i A libgstreamer-perl               - Perl interface to the GStreamer media
proc
i A libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 - librerie GStreamer dall'insieme "base"
i A libgstreamer0.10-0              - librerie ed elementi principali di
GStream


I don't know...I hope that those information can be helpful, but ask me if I
can provide more.

Best Regars,

Marco Milone

Dear Manteiners,
I monitored the situation on my system a litle more a I can provide some more
informations.

I add that if I open a thunar window with video files in it, the process
tumblerd is listed in top, using resources.
At this point:
- if I close the thunar window, tumblerd disappears from the processe list;
- if I keep the thunar window open, tumblerd starts leaking memory more and
more, untill I kill it. In one occasion tumblerd reached ~800MB of Ram usage.

I hope that those infos can be helpful.

Thank you in advance.

Marco Milone

Unfortunately, that looks completely unrelated.

Regards,

tags 647496 + unreproducible moreinfo
thanks

Hi,

Could you monitor the bus for tumbler to ensure that thumbnailing
requests are passed correctly?

Running:

dbus-monitor --session --monitor interface=org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1

in a terminal and then opening a Thunar window should show some arrays
of uris and mimetypes passed from thunar, and tumbler's reply, if
everything goes well.

Also, is it reproducible with any video file, or only a given type? Does
the installation of some extra gstreamer plugins such as
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg improve the situation?

Thanks.

Best,

2011/11/16 Lionel Le Folgoc <mrpouit@gmail.com>

Hi,
installing gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg apparently solved the problem!
Great! Thank you very much Lionel!

Thanks to you and to Yves-Alexis again

Best Regards and thanks again

Marco Milone

Should we add some recommends on some gstreamer plugins then? Like
-base, -good and -ffmpeg?

Well, for more complete information, I add that my videos are simple .avi
or .mp4, very common, nothing strange...so, maybe, adding those recommends
could be a wise choice. But obviously is up to you.

Thanks again and best regards,

Marco Milone

2011/11/17 Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>