Re: Thumbnailing speed

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

El mar, 23-01-2007 a las 23:26 +0000, Bastien Nocera escribi�> I'll reiterate that it should be the thumbnailers that commit suicide
> when they take too much time, not libgnomeui killing them (that's unless
> Federico shows me that it's possible to thumbnail the biggest/hardest
> videos under that time, and where the bottlenecks would be).

I lean towards putting the rlimit in libgnomeui, but that's because it
would make things more robust.  It's like a safety valve so that things
that are out of our direct control (GNOME's direct control) don't
explode.

<ignorant>
Why is thumbnailing videos hard?  Don't you just uncompress the first
frame and scale it?
</ignorant>

Also, the proposed 5 seconds / 256 MB of memory is completely arbitrary.
We can certainly have 10 seconds, but I'd be wary of raising the memory
limit too much.

<rant>
5 seconds of CPU time is 10,000,000,000 instructions at 2 GHz.  If you
can't give me a tiny little image in 10,000,000,000 instructions, well,
I don't know what the moral is :)
</rant>

  Federico