[mythtv-users] MythVideo thumbnails

[yan seiner]

Nick Rout wrote:

>Thats a nice idea,  most of my stuff in mythvideo is downloaded tv programmes, and having the same imdb cover art for 30 episodes of Lost is boring.
>
>In theory the script will:
>
>for each entry in the video table 
>if entry has no cover art
>	make a thumbnail (say 5 mins into the file)
>	store it in a known location
>	insert the path to the thumbnail in the database
>endif
>next
>
>thumbnail should not be the first frame of the file, as this is often blank, or an advert, or a studio logo or something.
>
>I am no programmer, but could probably hack up a half page script to do this (badly) in a week or two of frustration :-)
>
>  
>
ISTR that you can do this with mplayer or possibly mencoder.  read the 
manpage; there is a way to generate jpegs but I'm not sure if you can 
specify a position....

--Yan