[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu theme better default graphics for unknown videos?
John Luber
john at luberfamily.net
Sat Jan 16 20:59:15 UTC 2010
Yan Seiner wrote:
> I'm finally nearing the end of reconstructing my video fan art/cover
> art collection. Turns out that tmdb doesn't have a lot of the movies
> I have, and also I have a good number of home movies in the
> collection. In the mythbuntu theme, these show up as jarring, ugly,
> glaring large white question marks.
>
> Is there some way to insert a better graphic? Maybe something a bit
> softer?
>
> --Yan
>
Yan,
For my collection of home videos I use ffmpeg to pull out a frame of
video to use as coverart. I use:
ffmpeg -y -i INPUTFILENAME -vframes 1 -ss 00:00:10 -s 320x240 OUTPUT.png
Change INPUTFILENAME and OUTPUT to suit your needs and then within the
metadata editor in mythvideo select the appropriate .png file. You can
also play with the size - 320x240 - to suit your needs as well. This
should also work for other videos unknown to TMDB but you may find that
you have to seek further into the video (ie; -ss 00:01:00 or such) to
get a reasonable png file.
John
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