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[Michi Henning <michi.henning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pragmatically, there is probably nothing we can do about this, short of
finding someone who is willing to dig into the codec and figure out why
it fails (which, in turn, might involve fixing some problem in the
Android media elements.

For what it's worth, the thumbnailer will recover gracefully from this
kind of failure, in the sense that, once it has tried to produce a
thumbnail for such a video and has failed, it will permanently cache the
failure and not try again until the modification time of the video
changes. In other words, once the thumbnailer has encountered a failure
for such a file, for future requests for a thumbnail of the same file,
it will deliver a failure notification instantly.

Given the potential cost of fixing the problem compared to how often the
problem actually occurs, I'd be inclined to mark this as "won't fix"
because it doesn't happen very often that someone takes a video that
lasts for less than a second.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1391286

Title:
  Fails to generate thumbnail for small videos recorded with camera-app

Status in Canonical System Image:
  In Progress
Status in gst-plugins-bad1.0 package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in thumbnailer package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Videos with less than one sec recorded by camera-app (like when you
  click on the record button and immediately stops the recording
  process) have problems while generating thumbnail. This seems to be a
  problem to gallery-app since if we have one file like this on the
  collection the thumbnails took a long time to generate.

  I added an unit test that seems to fail on this branch:
  lp:~artmello/thumbnailer/thumbnailer-no_thumbnail_video

  Attached a video sample that seems to fail

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