[mythtv-users] mythcut - preparing image but no thumbnail displayed

[Anthony Giggins]

On 10 October 2014 08:52, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Is there anyone on the list that can assist with Mythcut -
> https://github.com/roadrunner6/mythcut? I'm interested in seeing what it
> looks like.
>
> So far I appear to have it installed. I can bring up the list of
> recordings,
> search etc. However when I go 'edit movie' all the thumbnails just say
> "Preparing Image" with a generic background.
>
> I checked in the mythcut-cache directory and it appears that the thumbnails
> are being generated. But they are not being displayed.
>
> I'm just having a guess here but my feel is it is probably some security
> thing in my settings that is stopping content outside of /var/www/ being
> displayed (the thumbnails are generated in a cache directory
> /tmp/mythcut-cache/). But I have no idea where to go after that or how to
> prove / disprove if my theory is even correct. I tried changing the config
> so that the tmp cache file was created under /var/www/mythcut/tmp but got
> the same behaviour (although the cache directory was successfully moved, at
> least once I loosened off the permissions) - does that disprove my theory?
>
> All suggestions greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
I use this extensively

>From memory mythcut uses mplayer to generate the thumbnails, perhaps you
dont have this installed? or the path to mplayer is incorrect?

perhaps check your apache error.log for more information

Cheers,

Anthony
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