[mythtv-users] Controlling how far into a recording the preview thumbnail snapshot is taken

Roy Lofthouse lofty69 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 12:31:12 UTC 2010


On 6 October 2010 13:04, George Poulson <george.poulson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 October 2010 12:18, Jos Hoekstra <joshoekstra at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> According to:
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Detailed_configuration_Frontend#View_Recordings_.284.2F8.29
>> you can set it to a time. I'm on trunk now and don't have that setting
>> exposed anymore.
>> Quickscan of the db doesn't tell me where thumbnails or previews are
>> made...
>
> Thanks Jos, that will be where I've seen this before, but I too have now
> moved to trunk so I can no see this setting!
> A bit more 'digging' has revealed that in 0.24 the thumbnails are now
> created by a separate application 'mythpreviewgen' which accepts a passed
> parameter '-- seconds' for determining the offset into the recording.
> My backend logs show that in my case it is being called with the default
> time offset:
> 2010-10-06 11:44:49.860 Launching: /usr/bin/mythpreviewgen --size 0x0
> --chanid 57102 --starttime 20101005213000  > /dev/null
> The release notes for 0.24 state:
> Add "Smart Pixmap Preview Offset Creation" - dynamically creates thumbnail
> preview location (and eliminates PreviewPixmapOffset setting) [23993]
> But this doesn't seem to be working to well for me and a number of my
> preview images are being created during what should be being flagged as
> advertisements.
> If this is working OK for everyone else then I guess I need to dig around in
> the code some more to find out whether/where I can add an additional
> parameter to control the offset.
> George
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does this offset take into account the start x mins early setting?


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