Re: [gentoo-user] Thumbnail thingy generating large xorg-session.log file

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Friday, 1 December 2023 11:47:31 GMT Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I was poking around the other day and noticed a large log file.  At
> first I thought it was smplayer but it does it even when smplayer is
> closed.  So, I tested several things and finally noticed it stops
> generating errors when I turn off showing thumbnails in dolphin.  This
> is a sample of what it enters into xorg-sessions.log file. 
> 
> 
> [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x55af3fb5c1c0] Format
> mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 detected only with low score of 1, misdetection
> possible!
> [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x55af3fb5c1c0] moov atom not found
> [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x55af4087ade0] Format
> mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 detected only with low score of 1, misdetection
> possible!
> [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x55af4087ade0] moov atom not found
> [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x55af408794e0] Format
> mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 detected only with low score of 1, misdetection
> possible!
> [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x55af408794e0] moov atom not found
> 
> 
> 
> When I cut off thumbnails and turn it back on, I also get some messages
> like this. 
> 
> 
> 
> [avi @ 0x55dcc9bede00] non-interleaved AVI
> [avi @ 0x55dcc9bede00] non-interleaved AVI
> [mpeg4 @ 0x55dcc9c00c20] Video uses a non-standard and wasteful way to
> store B-frames ('packed B-frames'). Consider using the
> mpeg4_unpack_bframes bitstream filter without encoding but stream copy
> to fix it.
> [avi @ 0x55dcc9bede00] non-interleaved AVI
> [avi @ 0x55dcc9bede00] non-interleaved AVI
> [mpeg4 @ 0x55dcc9bd76e0] Video uses a non-standard and wasteful way to
> store B-frames ('packed B-frames'). Consider using the
> mpeg4_unpack_bframes bitstream filter without encoding but stream copy
> to fix it.
> 
> 
> I cleared the log file since it was over 1GB.  I looked around in
> dolphin settings and can't figure out a way to cut those messages off. 
> I'm not sure how to fix this.  If the video is broken somehow, they all
> play fine on my TV.  I'm kinda thinking that something is is having
> problems but I don't know how it generates thumbnails to know what that
> is. 
> 
> Anyone have ideas or thoughts on this?  Is it a bug that will be fixed
> soon and just give it time?  Should I threaten it with a hammer?  ROFL 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 

Is your issue related to these logs being generated, or to these logs being 
captured.  If the latter, then my previous response on configuring the sddm 
logs should help.

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