[mythtv-users] Missing Thumbnails in Mythweb

[Kirk Bocek]

On 6/12/2015 2:12 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 06/12/2015 03:08 PM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>> Since I updated from 0.24 to 0.27.4 my installation of MythWeb has 
>> lost thumbnails on older recordings. The recordings are there and 
>> play just
>> fine. But the web interface *very* slowly times out and eventually 
>> shows a broken link on those thumbnails. The newer recordings made 
>> since the
>> upgrade are fine.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to fix this?
>
> I don't know how to fix it, but this is what mythweb does:
>
> <yourBE>:6544/Content/GetPreviewImage?ChanId=1051&StartTime=2015-04-16T02:00:00Z&Height=120&Width=160
>
> and if you do mythbackend --setverbose upnp 1st and then tail your
> BE log while doing the GetPreviewImage above in a browser, you
> can see if any errors fire. Obviously try on a working image 1st.
>
> Looks line the Services API gets the actual filename from the DB based on
> the ChanId and StartTime. So that <should> work with 0.24 filenames (even
> though the filenames themselves weren't converted to UTC the DB entries
> were in 0.26.) [ https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/UTC ]
>
> There may be entries in you BE log already. I'd check there 1st (there 
> are
> 4 messages that can print without the upnp logging component.)
>
> The above based on 0.28-pre. Mileage/vary etc.
>

I couldn't get this to work. For this set of files in storage:

5072_20150506215900.mpg
5072_20150506215900.mpg.-1.100x75.png
5072_20150506215900.mpg.png

I manually created this URL:

http://MyServer:6544/Content/GetPreviewImage?ChanId=5702&StartTime=2015-05-06T21:59:00Z&Height=120&Width=160

And got nothing.

http://MyServer:6544 *is* working