Enabling Quick View for Videos Causes File Manager to Become Unresponsive

[iamkartiknayak]

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Issue description

When enabling the Quick View feature for video files, the file manager becomes unresponsive. The app fails to handle the video preview, and the only way to recover from this state is to restart the application.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open Spacedrive App
2. Click on a video file
3. Activate Quick Preview either using Space-bar key or using context menu.

Platform and versions

• OS: Pop OS 22.04 (Tested on both COSMIC & GNOME)
• Spacedrive: v0.4.2 - 0af8dbf

Development tool versions (optional)

Stack trace

GStreamer element autoaudiosink not found. Please install it

(WebKitWebProcess:40729): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 19:10:47.085: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(WebKitWebProcess:40729): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 19:10:47.085: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

Additional context

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d77d85a4-15f0-4857-b5f2-12f77e8b96d9

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[linear[bot]]

ENG-1899 Enabling Quick View for Videos Causes File Manager to Become Unresponsive

[HeavenVolkoff]

Hey, thanks for reporting this issue.

Given the logs, I think this is something similar to: https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive/issues/1019

Can you check if you have the following gstreamer packages installed? gstreamer1.0-alsa gstreamer1.0-gtk3 gstreamer1.0-pipewire gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly

[iamkartiknayak]

I have these installed. Still facing the same problem I'm running Pop!_OS 22.04 with COSMIC DE

sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-alsa gstreamer1.0-gtk3 gstreamer1.0-pipewire gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
gstreamer1.0-pipewire is already the newest version (1.0.2~1707732619~22.04~b8b871b).
gstreamer1.0-pipewire set to manually installed.
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly is already the newest version (1.20.1-1).
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly set to manually installed.
gstreamer1.0-alsa is already the newest version (1.20.1-1ubuntu0.2).
gstreamer1.0-alsa set to manually installed.
gstreamer1.0-gtk3 is already the newest version (1.20.3-0ubuntu1.1).
gstreamer1.0-gtk3 set to manually installed.
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good is already the newest version (1.20.3-0ubuntu1.1).
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad is already the newest version (1.20.3-0ubuntu1.1).
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.