[Bug 71208] Re: Rhythmbox hang during launch

[Sebastien Bacher]

And on what do you think that rhythmbox is freezing? On the pointed GIF

You can try to run that command:
- gdb --args gst-launch-0.10 -t filesrc location=/path/to/animated/gif ! decodebin ! fakesink

you will notice that it eats CPU too and doesn't print the information
about the song. That comment is basically what rhythmbox is doing to get
the title, artist, etc on a song. Now try on a normal song, you will see
it works fine. Once you have noted it's eating CPU and not working fine
you can do <Ctrl-C> on the gdb prompt and then type "thread apply all
bt" and look on what's doing, it's using the gdk gif decoder

Does it make sense to you now? If you still disagree could you give some
explanation of why?

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 35586
   Problem while opening/previewing multi-layered GIF image

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Rhythmbox hang during launch
https://launchpad.net/bugs/71208