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has caused the Debian Bug report #852160,
regarding gstreamer1.0-vaapi: presence breaks totem-video-thumbnailer
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: gstreamer1.0-vaapi
Severity: important
Hi.
This problem exists since quite a while now, as soon as gstreamer1.0-vaapi
is installed totem-video-thumbnailer fails to create thumbnails for many
formats (I've noticed e.g. WMV, realmead, some mpeg container formats).
For example with the package being installed:
$ totem-video-thumbnailer --verbose video.wmv foo.jpg
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: Initialised libraries, about to create video
widget
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: setting URI file:///tmp/video.wmv
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: Video widget created
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: About to open video file
libva info: VA-API version 0.39.4
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_39
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
libva info: VA-API version 0.39.4
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_39
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: Checking whether file has cover
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: Opened video file: 'video.wmv'
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: About to seek to 0,333333
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: About to get frame for iter 0
** (totem-video-thumbnailer:11267): WARNING **: Could not take screenshot:
failed to retrieve or convert video frame
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: Frame for iter 0 was not interesting
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: About to seek to 0,666667
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: About to get frame for iter 1
** (totem-video-thumbnailer:11267): WARNING **: Could not take screenshot:
failed to retrieve or convert video frame
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: Frame for iter 1 was not interesting
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: About to seek to 0,100000
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: About to get frame for iter 2
** (totem-video-thumbnailer:11267): WARNING **: Could not take screenshot:
failed to retrieve or convert video frame
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: Frame for iter 2 was not interesting
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: About to seek to 0,900000
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: About to get frame for iter 3
** (totem-video-thumbnailer:11267): WARNING **: Could not take screenshot:
failed to retrieve or convert video frame
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: Frame for iter 3 was not interesting
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: About to seek to 0,500000
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: About to get frame for iter 4
** (totem-video-thumbnailer:11267): WARNING **: Could not take screenshot:
failed to retrieve or convert video frame
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: Frame for iter 4 was not interesting
totem-video-thumbnailer couldn't get a picture from 'video.wmv'
calestyo@heisenberg:~/data/__todo/.HSA/deletable$ totem-video-thumbnailer
--verbose video.wmv foo.jpg --gst-debug
couldn't parse command-line options: Missing argument for --gst-debug
And without it being installed:
$ totem-video-thumbnailer --verbose video.wmv foo.jpg
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: Initialised libraries, about to create video
widget
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: setting URI file:///tmp/video.wmv
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: Video widget created
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: About to open video file
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: Checking whether file has cover
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: Opened video file: 'video.wmv'
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: About to seek to 0,333333
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: About to get frame for iter 0
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: Frame for iter 0 is interesting
TotemVideoThumbnailer-Message: Saving captured screenshot
This affects of course any piece of software that uses totem-video-thumbnailer
for creating thumbails (e.g. nautilus).
Cheers,
Chris.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1.26.8-2+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package gstreamer-vaapi has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1126656
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
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