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pintergreg

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Registered: 2012-01-10

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tumbler config

Hey,

Is there any way to deny thumbler to create thumbnails from video files? A config file or something...
I want thumbnails from images, but no videos, so I don't deny the whole thing (I found an option for this in the settings).

Thanks,
pintergreg

Last edited by pintergreg (2012-04-27 19:42:23)

demosthenese

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Registered: 2009-05-04

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Re: tumbler config

Would uninstalling ffmpegthumbnailer do this?

stqn

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Registered: 2010-10-11

Posts: 136

Re: tumbler config

I don’t think it would. I’ve had the same problem and had to uninstall tumbler. Couldn’t find any configuration for tumbler.

pintergreg

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Re: tumbler config

Would uninstalling ffmpegthumbnailer do this?

The funny thing is, ffmpegthumbnailer is not installed. Is there other backend?
I use Arch x86_64 btw. Xfce 4.8, Thunar 1.2.3 and Tumbler 0.1.24.

My experimental idea was to rename /usr/lib/tumbler-1/plugins/tumbler-ffmpeg-thumbnailer.so... I give it a try.

Last edited by pintergreg (2012-04-28 19:46:55)

gymka

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Re: tumbler config

workaround:
compile without ffmpeg and gstreamer support:)

./autogen.sh --disable-ffmpeg-thumbnailer --disable-gstreamer-tumbnailer

all plugins(you can choose which you need):
  * GdkPixbuf thumbnailer plugin               
  * FreeType font thumbnailer plugin             
  * JPEG thumbnailer plugin with EXIF support:     
  * Video thumbnailer plugin using ffmpegthumbnailer
  * Video thumbnailer plugin using GStreamer
  * ODF thumbnailer plugin using libgsf
  * PDF/PS thumbnailer plugin using poppler
  * RAW thumbnailer plugin using libopenraw
  * Freedesktop.org cache plugin

pintergreg

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Registered: 2012-01-10

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Re: tumbler config

So, I need to recompile? Okay. But a config file would be great to change these settings without recompile!
Thanks!

gymka

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Re: tumbler config

So, I need to recompile? Okay. But a config file would be great to change these settings without recompile!
Thanks!

you need download source, compile(with options which you like, in this case with disabled thumbnails for movies) and use your compiled version. if you don't want to see movie thumbnails, so why you install tumbler? for pictures and fonts? in such case imho it's easier not use tumbler:)

Last edited by gymka (2012-04-29 16:13:58)

stqn

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Registered: 2010-10-11

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Re: tumbler config

For me tumbler could be useful to find and sort pictures. I don’t see the point in showing thumbnails for videos…

gymka

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Re: tumbler config

For me tumbler could be useful to find and sort pictures. I don’t see the point in showing thumbnails for videos…

you can't ignore video thumbnails? ok they are, so let it be so, why disable?

pintergreg

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Re: tumbler config

For me tumbler could be useful to find and sort pictures. I don’t see the point in showing thumbnails for videos…

+1
I aslo think thumbnails for videos are pointless... But, I need them for pictures, and I like thumbnails for pdfs as well.
Another reason I wanna get rid of them, because it uses a lots of resources, CPU, etc... (at least in my system)

Compiling a software is not a problem for me, but this solution is not too user frendly. That's why I wrote a config file would be great.

stqn

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Re: tumbler config

you can't ignore video thumbnails? ok they are, so let it be so, why disable?

Wasted CPU time for something useless, freezes, very annoying locking of removable volumes, additional dependencies, additional bugs and problems to take care of, and also, I do not want them.

Last edited by stqn (2012-05-01 20:16:41)

Nick

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Re: tumbler config

The plugins are compiled as modules, so removing the module dependency or the .so file will work. No compilation required.

That said, I agree we need to make this configurable some way or another (also module priority).

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jochen

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Registered: 2012-11-01

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Re: tumbler config

I also wish an easy configuration of what tumbnails should be generated and what not. This is because tumblerd is buggy and extremly hungry on resources (cpu and memory). When I convert videos tumblerd tries to generate constantly new video thumbnails because the output file is constantly growing (and therfeore changing).
This makes my system often completely unusable because tumblerd uses 100% cpu and all of memory, so system begins swapping.

For me video thumbnails are useless and generating them makes my system often unusable. Until these resource consuming bugs are resolved, it should be easy to disable video thumbnailing.

jens

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Registered: 2012-03-20

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Re: tumbler config

For me video thumbnails are useless and generating them makes my system often unusable. Until these resource consuming bugs are resolved, it should be easy to disable video thumbnailing.

+1 !!!!!

rene

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Registered: 2011-02-01

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Re: tumbler config

... and for me it's just the "keeps removable volumes" busy problem, but yes, video thumbnailing should definitely be easily configured out. I assume it's not really doable to disable it only for removable volumes?