[mythtv-users] Mytharchive thumbnails

Roy Lofthouse lofty69 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 26 13:19:12 UTC 2006


On 26/09/06, Roy Lofthouse <lofty69 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
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> On 26/09/06, F Peeters (MythTV) <francesco at fampeeters.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, September 26, 2006 12:02, Roy Lofthouse wrote:
> > > On 26/09/06, Simon Levitt <maillists at whattf.com> wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> > >> Something that occurred to me that would be quite easy to do (for the
> >
> > >> title
> > >> thumbs anyway) would be to use the image that mythtv generates for
> > each
> > >> program automatically - I've noticed that if one isn't present and
> > you
> > >> mark a
> > >> save point, it get generated using the frame at the save point.
> > >>
> > >> ie. Basically it would require setting a save point in each program,
> > at
> > >> the
> > >> point at which you'd like the thumb image to be taken from.
> > >
> > > The problem with this is that the thumbnail locations for the bookmark
> >
> > > appear to be in a format other than seconds (maybe frameindex ?) and
> > > mytharchive helper uses seconds.  I may however be totally wrong, or
> > there
> > > is a way to convert the frameindex to seconds???
> > >
> >
> > I think Simon meant to use the actual files already generated by the
> > system as previews for the frontend or mythweb
> >
> > --
> > F Peeters
> >   PC-Chips M863G Geode - NVidia 440 - Hauppauge PVR250
> >   Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) - XFCE - MythTV 0.20 - Xine
> >   Panasonic NV-VHD1 VCR/DVD player case modded to fit it all in...
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>
> I guess that would work too...  ;-)
>

Paul,

I've updated the patch to include using the bookmark file from the
recordings screen if the type is recordings...If you hold off applying the
last patch I'll raise a ticket and attach the new patch after I've done some
more testing...

Roy
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