On 6 October 2010 12:18, Jos Hoekstra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joshoekstra@gmx.net" target="_blank">joshoekstra@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">According to:<br>
<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Detailed_configuration_Frontend#View_Recordings_.284.2F8.29" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Detailed_configuration_Frontend#View_Recordings_.284.2F8.29</a><br>
you can set it to a time. I'm on trunk now and don't have that
setting exposed anymore.<br>
Quickscan of the db doesn't tell me where thumbnails or previews are
made...</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My backend logs show that in my case it is being called with the default time offset:</div><div><br></div><div>2010-10-06 11:44:49.860 Launching: /usr/bin/mythpreviewgen --size 0x0 --chanid 57102 --starttime 20101005213000 > /dev/null</div>
<div><br></div><div>The release notes for 0.24 state:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">Add "Smart Pixmap Preview Offset Creation" - dynamically creates thumbnail preview location (and eliminates PreviewPixmapOffset setting) <a href="http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/23993" title="http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/23993" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:13px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat" target="_blank">[23993]</a></span></div>
<div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div>
</div><div><br></div><div>George</div></div>