On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:08:48 +0300 (EEST) Robert Krambovitis <rob...@split.gr>
said:

> > From: "Carsten Haitzler"
> > To: "Enlightenment users discussion & support"
> > <enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: "Robert Krambovitis"
> > Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 5:30:05 PM
> > Subject: Re: [e-users] efl, ethumb, emotion and codecs issue
> > 
> > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:56:17 +0300 (EEST) Robert Krambovitis
> > said:
> > 
> > > Good morning,
> > > 
> > > I encountered an issue where I had properly compiled ethumb with
> > > emotion
> > > using gstreamer and not xine. On a particular system where I was
> > > missing some
> > > gstreamer plugins, basically opening efl to a directory with
> > > videos, would
> > > grind the whole computer to a crawl. Ethumb did not manage to
> > > generate
> > > thumbnails due to the missing codecs, and it took a huge amount of
> > > time for
> > > it to display the standard "no thumbnail" image. While trying to
> > > generate the
> > > thumbnail, everything else pretty much stopped functioning.
> > 
> > it'll b e trying to use evas's generic loader path - the generic
> > loaders
> > include one that uses gstreamer. this is what is used.
> 
> Fair enough.
> I assumed ethumb was used for all thumbnail generation.

as a matter of fact no. e17 has its own because it has special needs and ethumb
can't accommodate them (also e17's thumbnailer pre-dates ethumb by a large
margin).

> Then the title of the email is wrong but the problem remains :)
> 
> Is evas_generic_loaders also responsible for the images / pdf etc thumbnail
> generation ?

yes.

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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com


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