@James I don't have any ideas offhand right now without digging further, but I do know that there indeed is some optimization that is needed for gstamc-hybris to help with situations like this as well as to greatly increase the speed of thumbnailing in general. I've got an item on my team's backlog to investigate this.
** Changed in: thumbnailer Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gst-plugins-bad1.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1391286 Title: Fails to generate thumbnail for small videos recorded with camera-app Status in Thumbnail generator for all kinds of files: Confirmed Status in gst-plugins-bad1.0 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in thumbnailer package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Videos with less than one sec recorded by camera-app (like when you click on the record button and immediately stops the recording process) have problems while generating thumbnail. This seems to be a problem to gallery-app since if we have one file like this on the collection the thumbnails took a long time to generate. I added an unit test that seems to fail on this branch: lp:~artmello/thumbnailer/thumbnailer-no_thumbnail_video Attached a video sample that seems to fail To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thumbnailer/+bug/1391286/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp