<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Preston Crow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pc-mythtv08a@crowcastle.net">pc-mythtv08a@crowcastle.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I have a bunch of files in mythvideo with no cover art, as they aren't<br>
movies in IMDB. In many cases, it would be simple to pause playback in<br>
an appropriate place, and select an option to save the image as a cover<br>
art image from the menu. This would only work with the internal player,<br>
but that works so well for most video types now that that shouldn't be a<br>
problem.<br>
<br>
Another option might be to grab the frame at a given offset (say 2<br>
minutes) and use that for any video lacking cover art.<br>
<br>
Now if only I had time to write the patch myself...<br>
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<div><br></div><div>ffmpeg -y -i ${list[$choice]} -vframes 1 -ss 00:00:10 -an -vcodec png -f rawvideo -s 320x240 $mythPosters/"$title".png</div><div><br></div><div>This will grab a frame from the video at a 10 sec offset. In the case of this example ${list[$choice]} is the name of the video file. $mythPosters is the storage group directory and $title is the name of the image filename.</div>
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