Ubuntu UX

[gallery] BQ E4.5 (r24): Gallery app is showing thumbnails of videos without any indication of content

Bug #1479305 reported by Matthias Apitz
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical System Image
Confirmed
Medium
Bill Filler
Canonical System Image backlog
Ubuntu UX
Fix Committed
Medium
Jouni Helminen
gallery-app (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned
gallery-app (Ubuntu RTM)
New
Undecided
Unassigned
gstreamer1.0 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

The Gallery-->Photos is showing for videos no indication about the content. It could present, for example, at least the date and time from the filename of the video. Without this it is impossible to pick-up the desired video. See attachment.

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Matthias Apitz (gubu) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gallery-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Richard Somlói (ricsipontaz) wrote :

I am also affected by this issue on bq Aquaris E4.5. (How do you use r25 release? The latest stable release is r24)

Matthias Apitz (gubu)
summary: - BQ E4.5 (r25): Gallery app is showing thumbnails of viedeos without any
+ BQ E4.5 (r24): Gallery app is showing thumbnails of viedeos without any
indication of content
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Alejandro J. Cura (alecu) wrote : Re: BQ E4.5 (r24): Gallery app is showing thumbnails of viedeos without any indication of content

Added thumbnailer to the bug, because it sounds like the issue may be there.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Jim Hodapp (jhodapp)
affects: thumbnailer → ubuntu
Launchpad Janitor (janitor)
Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Confirmed
Jim Hodapp (jhodapp)
affects: ubuntu → thumbnailer (Ubuntu)
Launchpad Janitor (janitor)
Changed in thumbnailer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Michi Henning (michihenning) wrote :

@alecu: almost certainly not.

The latest updates contain gstreamer 1.5.2, which appears to be badly broken. gst_init() causes an assertion failure inside gstreamer (at least on the desktop), meaning that *no* thumbnailing of any video or audio file is possible. (It also means that we can no longer land any fixes to the thumbnailer in Jenkins, because our tests (correctly) fail.

If the above problem was caused with an image that still uses 1.4.5, then it's almost certainly also a gstreamer problem. It hangs, produces black thumbnails, or errors out at random.

There isn't a lot the thumbnailer can do about this :-(

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Michi Henning (michihenning) wrote :

BTW, let's not lose focus here. The original bug is about the fact that, other than the thumbnail, there is no indication whatsoever as to the identity of the video. No filename, no date/time. I've been annoyed by this in the past too. In particular, when taking a bunch of test videos, I just have the phone sitting somewhere and I hit the record button a few times. When it comes to figuring out which video I'm dealing with, I don't get anything. What I see are five or six very similar thumbnails, with no way to get more info about a particular video.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gstreamer1.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in thumbnailer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Michi Henning (michihenning)
Changed in thumbnailer (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Changed in thumbnailer (Ubuntu RTM):
status: New → Invalid
Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)
no longer affects: thumbnailer (Ubuntu)
no longer affects: thumbnailer (Ubuntu RTM)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
assignee: nobody → Bill Filler (bfiller)
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → backlog
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - BQ E4.5 (r24): Gallery app is showing thumbnails of viedeos without any
+ BQ E4.5 (r24): Gallery app is showing thumbnails of videos without any
indication of content
Magdalena Mirowicz (magdalena-mirowicz)
summary: - BQ E4.5 (r24): Gallery app is showing thumbnails of videos without any
- indication of content
+ [gallery] BQ E4.5 (r24): Gallery app is showing thumbnails of videos
+ without any indication of content
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Jouni Helminen (jounihelminen)
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Jouni Helminen (jounihelminen) wrote :

Hopefully the thumbnailer bug can be fixed.

Commenting on the desire to have dates or filenames - I wouldn't show them by default in the UI. Instead long pressing should take the user into an edit mode, where it's possible to select one or several thumbnails, and perform actions on them (delete etc). We should add "Details" as one of those actions, which would then display a dialog showing more information - things like resolution, duration, file size, and file path.

Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Jouni Helminen (jounihelminen) wrote :

Note that the above "Details" action should only appear when one item is selected in edit mode. If multiple items are selected, it should disappear form the header.

There is new design ready for the edit mode which should land in SDK 1.3 soon-ish

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