[mythtv-users] The PNG Thumbnail generated by Default: Is it used for anything?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon May 14 18:12:53 UTC 2007


On 05/14/2007 01:58 PM, Matthew McClement wrote:
> The setting is PreviewPixmapOffset if you want to edit
> it via MythWeb(value is in seconds)

Oh, you mean on the page that says:

Warning:
Many settings pages have very little error checking. You can easily 
screw things up if you're not careful, and short of restoring the 
database from a backup, there is *no* way to undo your changes.

>  but it's also exposed in the
> settings somewhere as well.
>   

Right, so please, don't use the MythWeb settings editor.  Go into 
mythfrontend settings and change the setting TWIMTBC (The Way It's Meant 
To Be Changed, with apologies to NVIDIA).  In mythfrontend settings, TV 
Settings|Playback Settings, on the "View Recordings" page (about page 3):

Generate preview image from a bookmark if possible
If enabled, MythTV will ignore the above time offset, and use the 
bookmark inside the recording as the offset for creating a thumbnail 
image. As with the above, MythTV will honour cutlists and increase this 
offset if necessary.

Mike


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