unity video lens always re-thumbnails

Note: this is triggered by searching in the dash too.

So whenever I open the home dash and search for something I get ~30secs of 100% CPU usage. (laptop users aren't going to be happy)

Well, I guess not many people have videos that fail to thumbnail in 30secs. Anyway, I've been using the attached patch for a while with no problems. Only fixes the problem if nautilus has been to the directory beforehand, though. It just checks if nautilus reported the thumbnailing as failed, and if so, displays the generic 'video' icon.

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Hello Michael, thanks a lot for this patch.
It should land next week in trunk and in Precise.

This bug was fixed in the package unity-lens-video - 0.3.6-0ubuntu1

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unity-lens-video (0.3.6-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  [ Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak ]
  * New upstream release.
    - Don't try to thumbnail if Nautilus has marked the thumbnailing as failed
      (LP: #977158)
    - Exit on DBus hickup at startup, Unity will restart the lens (LP: #975023)

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * Adding Vcs-Bzr
  * point the new location to the canonical directory
    (lp:ubuntu/unity-lens-video) after the conversion in a merge-upstream
    source
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:50:40 +0200

Hello Michael, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity-lens-video into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-video/0.3.5-0ubuntu1.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

So I might be a bad person to do the verification, since I suggested the fix in the first place...

But yes, the updated version fixes the constant re-thumbnailing for me, assuming that I let nautilus thumbnail them first.

This bug was fixed in the package unity-lens-video - 0.3.5-0ubuntu1.3

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unity-lens-video (0.3.5-0ubuntu1.3) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Cherry-pick upstream:
    - Fix one more DBus issue (LP: #975023)

unity-lens-video (0.3.5-0ubuntu1.2) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Don't try to thumbnail if Nautilus has marked the thumbnailing as failed (LP: #977158)
  * Exit on DBus hickup at startup, Unity will restart the lens (LP: #975023)
 -- Lukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <email address hidden> Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:09:19 +0200