Public bug reported: vs-thumb right now streams extracted data to stdout by default (see [1]). The approach is brittle in the sense that any component (e.g., gstreamer or gstreamer plugin) writing to stdout can easily break the thumbnail. We have zero control over stdout and should thus either:
(1.) Rely on specifying an explicit temporary destination file or (2.) Open a dedicated communication pipe to communicate back the resulting thumbnail to the calling process. Please also see [2.] for the respective product bug. [1.] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~unity-team/thumbnailer/trunk/view/head:/src/vs-thumb/thumbnailextractor.cpp#L371 [2.] https://bugs.launchpad.net/zhongshan/+bug/1554867 ** Affects: thumbnailer (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1556835 Title: vs-thumb should not rely on standard streams to communicate result image back To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thumbnailer/+bug/1556835/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
