Rhythmbox has to scan all files, because until it scans them it doesn't know whether they contain audio and/or video. Mimetypes aren't enough, because many types like application/ogg and video/quicktime are just containers, and so may contain audio (Vorbis, AAC) or video (Theora, QT video).
The problem of RB crashing on imports has been fixed for 0.9.4, if the metadata-helper is enabled (which it is by default). Using that importing is run in a separate process, so crahes in GStreamer won't kill RB. -- Rhythmbox shouldn't be scanning the video files https://launchpad.net/bugs/43853 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
