Public bug reported:
These days, more and more digicams ship with video capabilities. These videos
can become huge, multiple gigabytes for one video is not an exception.
However, Shotwell seems to be loading the *entire* video into memory before
writing it to disk, which completely 'freezes' the import process (there's no
indication of the fact that a video is being copied and nothing appears to be
happening), slows down the computer since most of the internal memory is being
consumed and it potentially crashes machines which are low on memory.
What should happen is that:
a) the user gets informed by Shotwell that a video is being imported (text
feedback with i.e. file name/size + ETA, progress bar, thumbnail of the video)
b) instead of loading the entire file into memory, Shotwell should load
'reasonable' chunks at a time and write those to disk sequentially.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: shotwell 0.11.6-0ubuntu0.1 [modified:
usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 2 21:42:16 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: shotwell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: shotwell (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug apport-lpi oneiric running-unity
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videos are completely loaded into memory on import
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