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

[Mark Perkins]

>>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

Thanks Anthony. I definitely have mplayer installed. And it appears to be working as I get the thumbnail images in the tmp cache folder. I just don't get the thumbnails displayed in the mythcut webpage.

But the apache error.log does show this (no idea how I missed it first time around):

PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function imagecreate() in /var/www/mythcut/lib/MovieStripeHandler.php on line 19, referer: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/mythcut/?action=movie&selectedMovie=1011.1413333120&init=true

After a bit of google I worked out I needed to install the GD library for php. These commands solved the problem for me:

sudo apt-get install php5-gd
sudo service apache2 reload

Will now try it out and see how it works! Thankyou for the assistance.