Re: [e-users] evas_generic_loaders log / output / something

[Robert K. <ro...@sp...>]

> > > > I appear to be missing something on my system and I'm not
> > > > getting
> > > > thumbnails
> > > > from certain video types (mp4).
> > > 
> > > do you have evas_generic_loaders installed? ie the binaries (from
> > > the
> > > package
> > > we release) ?
> > 
> > Yes, with Gstreamer support.
> > It does thumbnail most videos, but these mp4's are not getting
> > thumbnailed.
> > I have already installed all gstreamer-plugin packages available
> > from
> > my systems repositories.
> > 
> > Hence why I was asking for some manual run thing, maybe some output
> > could put me on the right path.
> > There's no relevant output in my E session log either :(
> > 
> > Also, for that matter, it takes ages to fail to generate the
> > thumbnails, which is something I thought was fixed.
> > oh, and while trying to generate the thumbnails, if I trigger a
> > video
> > preview, E hangs (irrecoverable!, or at least unresponsive to
> > restart E key combo within reasonable time frame, then I end up
> > hitting ctrl+alt+backspace).
> > 
> 
> the preview problem appears to be irrelevant to the thumbnails in the
> end.
> It just gets stuck when I trigger a video preview of one of these
> same mp4s
> 
> It does seem to eventually timeout (90 secs)
> 
> Not ideal, but better than crl+alt+backspace I spose.
> 
> Should I file a bug report ?

Monologue continues :)

So by uninstalling certain extra gstreamer packages, now the timeout is fine (few seconds / video) instead of 90 secs.
So I believe the "timeout fix" assumes that the correct gstreamer package is missing rather than broken / unable which still makes things foobar. 

I still however have no thumbnails for these mp4s.