Re: gstreamer gdk-pixbuf plugin

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 11:33, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> El lun, 15-12-2003 a las 10:39, Alexander Larsson escribió:
> > I was just debugging some nautilus issue when nautilus started crashing
> > when reading a directory with some avi files in it. Apparently there is
> > now a gdk-pixbuf loader in gstreamer, and it was crashing trying to load
> > some 700 meg avi. 
> > 
> > There are a few issues with this:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Well, then we won't install it by default.  I don't think it's meant to
> be used (yet), Company was trying to figure out how pixbuf loaders work
> and tried to implement it with GStreamer.

Ok.

> Incidentally, is it documented somewhere that external thumbnailers are
> preferred over pixbuf loaders ?

Uhm? They are not. pixbuf loaders are prefered, being the built-in way
thumbnails are generated. However, that was only ever meant to be used
for normal images, not animations...

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