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Bug 133825 - [nautilus-media] gst-thumbnail occasionally goes nuts, consumes all available memory
[nautilus-media] gst-thumbnail occasionally goes nuts, consumes all available...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] nautilus-media
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Thomas Vander Stichele
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-02-08 22:22 UTC by particle_mann
Modified: 2006-04-01 10:31 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Attachments
Partially downloaded WMV from Firefox (775.22 KB, video/wmv)
2004-09-19 17:53 UTC, Julian Lamb
Details

Description particle_mann 2004-02-08 22:22:42 UTC
Occaisionally gst-thumbnail will start up and proceed to consume all
availible memory (using gnome-system monitor it shows as using 800+MB of
RAM on a system with only 512MB of real RAM) and it simply does not stop,
even when left unattended for several hours. 
CTRL-ALT-DEL/CTRL-ALT-BKSP/switching to another virtual terminal become
totally useless, and the only option is to reboot.  Unfortunately I can't
reproduce this bug, I don't know exactly what causes it, all I know is that
it seems to happen most when I have several open applications.
Comment 1 Julian Lamb 2004-09-19 17:51:06 UTC
I have been able to reproduce this bug with the attached file.  The problem
shows up during Firefox downloads, when only the file is being written to disk
(with the ".part" extension).  Also, the WMV codec isn't supported by gstreamer,
which probably doesn't help the situation.

Regardless, I'm bumping the severity to critical, since this bug consumes 100%
of CPU resources, and effectively trashes
Joe-I-don't-know-how-to-kill-an-application's session.
Comment 2 Julian Lamb 2004-09-19 17:53:24 UTC
Created attachment 31696 [details]
Partially downloaded WMV from Firefox
Comment 3 Stephane Loeuillet 2004-12-13 11:19:07 UTC
WMV files are in fact ASF files

WMV1 and WMV2 are supported by gstreamer (as well as WMA1 and WMA2 for audio)
only WMV3 and WMA3 aren't supported (mplayer uses windows dll files to play them)

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got sound working with totem
got no video because it is WMV3

i use gstreamer CVS and totem CVS

so, it's probably a problem is gst-thumbnail itself
Comment 4 Stephane Loeuillet 2004-12-13 11:21:06 UTC
as nautilus-media (which provides gst-thumbnail) would certainly not be
maintained anymore (replaced by other similar/better code from totem), i doubt
it would be fixed one day
Comment 5 Ronald Bultje 2005-01-25 17:37:24 UTC
Since it's a nautilus-media bug, I'm reassigning it to them.
Comment 6 dan r 2005-04-15 01:54:23 UTC
Additional: I have noticed that while Azureus is downloading a video, the
thumbnailer makes a thumbnail for every hash of that file (which changes as it
is downloaded). This has filled up my .thumbnails dir with 30,000 thumbnails!
(almost a GB of them)

This is on Gnome 2.8.3 from Debian unstable.
Comment 7 Daniel Hedblom 2005-07-19 13:19:23 UTC
I have been bitten by this occasionally. I mostly just turn
gnome-video-thumbnailer off. It also happens sometimes with media files on cdrom
or DVD. 




Comment 8 Thomas Vander Stichele 2006-04-01 10:31:40 UTC
nautilus-media is discontinued.