Very long time of parsing of tags (mp3, mp4, ...)

Scott Wheeler wheeler at kde.org
Sat Mar 5 09:41:29 CET 2011


On Mar 5, 2011, at 8:53 AM, Vladimir Skuzovatkin wrote:

> 1) Small (~10Kb) PNG image was written into media file. Time of  
> opening file (after writing of image) is equal to ~4 milliseconds.
> 2) Small PNG image was deleted from media file and big (~400Kb) PNG  
> image was written into media file. Time of opening file is equal to  
> ~30 seconds.

It could be that there's > 10k of padding available, but not > 400k,  
so it has to rewrite the file, which, while it shouldn't take 30  
seconds on average, it could on a large file.

-Scott


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