New version released September 23, 2009. Amongst other issues, version 1.5.5 resolves an issue that can cause ffmpegthumbnailer to choke and spike to 100% CPU on some files. I have been using a locally compiled copy of 1.5.5 on my machine for a while and it seems to work perfectly well. Reproducible: Always
+*ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.5 (08 Oct 2009) + + 08 Oct 2009; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> + +ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.5.ebuild: + Version bump wrt #288126, thanks to George Waksman for reporting.