[mythtv-users] Controlling how far into a recording the preview thumbnail snapshot is taken

[Jos Hoekstra]

  Op 6-10-2010 12:30, Anthony Giggins schreef:
> On 6 October 2010 19:02, George Poulson <george.poulson at gmail.com 
> <mailto:george.poulson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I think I may have seen a setting for this somewhere so I'm sorry
>     if it is an FAQ, but I can't find anything again now and Google
>     isn't coming up with anything helpful.
>
>     Because I start my recordings ahead of the scheduled time (some
>     programmes occasionally start 'early' here in the UK) I am
>     frequently finding that the preview 'thumbnail' is a screenshot of
>     an advertisement rather than of the content of the programme itself.
>
>     It's not a 'biggie' I know, but if there's any way of moving the
>     'snapshot' further into the recording it would help me to improve
>     the WAF even more :)
>
>     Thanks for any advice on this!
>     George
>
>
> From memory its 10 minutes, but it will change if you add a bookmark.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anthony
>

According to:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Detailed_configuration_Frontend#View_Recordings_.284.2F8.29
you can set it to a time. I'm on trunk now and don't have that setting 
exposed anymore.
Quickscan of the db doesn't tell me where thumbnails or previews are made...

Jos
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