tumbler journal spam while downloading videos

Submitted by Ralf Teres

Assigned to Jannis Pohlmann

Link to original bug (#11106)

Description

Hi!

I've been getting awful systemd journal spam from what I believe to be ffmpegthumbnailer through tumbler while thunar is open in a folder where videos are being downloaded. ~10 messages like this per second with only 2 running downloads:

org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1[3558]: [h264 @ 0x7f360d0b3300] AVC: nal size 0

The amount of journal spam this generates on my machine dominates my logs and renders having a system journal open in the first place totally useless. It can accumulate millions of unnecessary lines in the logs over the course of a month with normal usage.

Tumbler should probably not relay all of the output generated by the programs it calls to the systemd journal. Also Tumbler / Thunar should probably not try to generate / request thumbnails for the same file over and over again with such a high frequency while it is still being downloaded.

Using tumbler 0.1.30