Bug#967941: Bug appeared again

[Bernhard Übelacker]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 18:07:08 +0000 Stephan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Verb=FCcheln?= <verbuecheln at posteo.de> wrote:
> This bug appears back some time ago. For some months, video thumbnails
> failed to generate on multiple of my machines. Since then, I was trying
> to figure out the cause.
> 
> It only seemed to affect h264, but not all videos were affected. I even
> had multiple videos saved from Youtube, some were generating
> thumbnails, others were not. I could not find any difference in the
> codec parameters.
> 
> Adding the -l option in /usr/share/thumbnailers/totem.thumbnailer
> worked to prevent this bug. Does this option have any downsides?
> 
> Regards


Hello,
it looks like this option makes it not setting the process limits [1] [2].

Simon wrote it that way before:
   totem-video-thumbnailer sets a resource limit ... to avoid a runaway
   thumbnailing process consuming disproportionate system resources.

Kind regards,
Bernhard

[1] https://sources.debian.org/src/totem/43.0-2/src/totem-video-thumbnailer.c/#L587
     587 	{ "no-limit", 'l', G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &time_limit, "Don't limit the thumbnailing time to 30 seconds", NULL },

[2] https://sources.debian.org/src/totem/43.0-2/src/totem-resources.c/?hl=111#L111