digikam crash when indexing/creating thumbnails of jpeg2000 files

Binary package hint: digikam

Digikam is pretty slow when indexing jpeg2000 files. Much slower than alternative software and seemingly uses more memory. It crashes repeatedly, not on the same file though. Have received segmentation fault errors among others.

One suggestion for developers. Since JPEG2000 support progressive decoding (layers), if stored that way, preview images are usually not necessary. Just pull out the information need for the actual resolution. I.e., for preview maybe a few kb, fullscreen 50-100kb etc.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: digikam 2:1.4.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-27.47-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-27-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb 20 11:43:59 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: digikam