---- 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

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#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.

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#2

Updated by Adam Dingle over 2 years ago

  * **Target version** deleted (<strike>_0.10_</strike>)
  * **Priority** deleted (<strike>_High_</strike>)

I think I'd rather switch back to GStreamer as suggested in#3439, actually.

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#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.

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#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

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