Difference between revisions of "Talk:Generatevideothumbs.pl"

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* Requires the directory structure to have no special characters (in particular, won't escape a space)
 
* Requires the directory structure to have no special characters (in particular, won't escape a space)
 
* Requires you to manually create the directory /home/mythtv/.mythtv/MythVideo and any subdirectories
 
* Requires you to manually create the directory /home/mythtv/.mythtv/MythVideo and any subdirectories
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I had problems getting -ss X to work.  The Quicktime/MOV MP4s played just fine, but skipping forward gave me errors and black frames.  Since they were just home movies, I dropped the -ss flag and argument, and they worked fine.  [[User:Thegonk|Thegonk]] 20:57, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Revision as of 20:57, 12 April 2009

Caveats for this script:

  • Requires the directory structure to have no special characters (in particular, won't escape a space)
  • Requires you to manually create the directory /home/mythtv/.mythtv/MythVideo and any subdirectories

I had problems getting -ss X to work. The Quicktime/MOV MP4s played just fine, but skipping forward gave me errors and black frames. Since they were just home movies, I dropped the -ss flag and argument, and they worked fine. Thegonk 20:57, 12 April 2009 (UTC)