Investigate ffmpegthumbnailer as an alternative to Totem
Submitted by Eric Gregory
Link to original bug (#717696)
Description
---- Reported by eric@yorba.org 2011-03-24 11:59:00 -0700 ----
Original Redmine bug id: 3411
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3411
Searchable id: yorba-bug-3411
Original author: Eric Gregory
Original description:
Some 0.9 users have complained about having to install Totem to run Shotwell.
We use Totem to generate thumbnails of video files, and we picked Totem over ffmpegthumbnailer largely because Totem comes with Gnome.
But now it's come to our attention that ffmpegthumbnailer has fewer dependencies, and some users may prefer it for that reason.
Ideally, I think we'd either require Totem or ffmpegthumbnailer and execute whichever one the user has installed. This wouldn't be terribly difficult to implement, but would mean further investigation into Debian dependencies.
Related issues:
- related to shotwell - Feature #3439: use GStreamer for video thumbnailing once again (Fixed)
---- Additional Comments From shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-05-01 11:46:00 -0700 ----
History
Comment 1
Updated by Adam Dingle over 2 years ago
- Target version set to 0.10
- Priority set to High
I wouldn't want to use ffmpegthumbnailer by default, because
- it would be an additional dependency for those already in the GNOME world
- ffmpeg uses a different set of codecs than GStreamer, so the output of ffmpegthumbnailer might not reflect what GStreamer can actually produce
But we could certainly consider a configure option '--with-ffmpeg-thumbnailer' which would enable this. We should also encourage the GNOME people to move totem-video-thumbnailer outside of Totem so that it becomes a more lightweight and hence more palatable dependency.
Comment 2
Updated by Adam Dingle over 2 years ago
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I think I'd rather switch back to GStreamer as suggested in#3439, actually.
Comment 3
Updated by Jim Nelson 11 months ago
- Description updated (diff)
- Status changed from Open to 5
- Resolution set to wontfix
This problem is solved with the Shotwell video thumbnailer.
Comment 4
Updated by Charles Lindsay 7 months ago
- Status changed from 5 to Invalid
--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-25 21:53 UTC ---
This bug was previously known as bug 3411 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3411
Unknown Component Using default product and component set in Parameters Unknown version " in product shotwell. Setting version to "!unspecified". Unknown milestone "unknown in product shotwell. Setting to default milestone for this product, "---". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
Resolution: RESOLVED INVALID