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** Changed in: shotwell
       Status: Unknown => New

** Changed in: shotwell
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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Title:
  videos are completely loaded into memory on import

Status in Shotwell:
  New
Status in “shotwell” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  These days, more and more digicams ship with video capabilities. These videos can become huge, multiple gigabytes for one video is not an exception.
  However, Shotwell seems to be loading the *entire* video into memory before writing it to disk, which completely 'freezes' the import process (there's no indication of the fact that a video is being copied and nothing appears to be happening), slows down the computer since most of the internal memory is being consumed and it potentially crashes machines which are low on memory.

  What should happen is that:
  a) the user gets informed by Shotwell that a video is being imported (text feedback with i.e. file name/size + ETA, progress bar, thumbnail of the video)
  b) instead of loading the entire file into memory, Shotwell should load 'reasonable' chunks at a time and write those to disk sequentially.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: shotwell 0.11.6-0ubuntu0.1 [modified: usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Jan  2 21:42:16 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  SourcePackage: shotwell
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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