Bug 221262

Summary: mplayerthumbs with phonon backend: video thumbnailer just sits there and eats memory instead of creating a thumbnail
Product: [Unmaintained] kdemultimedia Reporter: Marc Schiffbauer <mschiff>
Component: mplayerthumbsAssignee: Marco Gulino <marco.gulino>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: diego.ml
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Marc Schiffbauer 2010-01-04 18:33:11 UTC 
Version:           4.3.85 (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

When I browse over video file for which KDE (dolphin or kphotoalbum for example) tries to create video thumbnails (MOV or AVI files from my camera in this case). There is no thumbnail created, instead a dummy icon is shown and the kio_thumbnail process in the background is eating memory.

So if there are many videos in a directory I have to hurry to not get into a OOM condition.

I would this really consider a show-stopper for 4.4 as it will "crash" to whole system if a user does not know what is happening and "kill -9"'s the kio_thumbnail processes.

This only happens if "Phonon" is selected as backend in mplayerthumbsconfig. With the mplayer backend everything works as expected.
Comment 1 Diego 2010-04-02 15:50:53 UTC 
Isn't this duplicate of bug #203628 ?
Comment 2 Marc Schiffbauer 2010-04-03 01:24:24 UTC 
Yes thanks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 203628 ***