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Robert McNamara wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:59 PM, John Luber <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:john@luberfamily.net"><john@luberfamily.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Yan Seiner wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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
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<pre wrap="">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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Or better still, do your part to improve TMDB by adding the artwork
and where required, item details. The only way it's going to get
better than IMDB is if we all add things when we see holes.
Besides, ideally you would put screenshots in the screenshot database
field, not the coverart one.
Robert
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Just to emphasize... this is my recommendation to deal with home
videos. I seriously doubt that TMDB, IMDB or any other DB is
interested in meta data for my family Christmas or my kid's birthday
party videos. Likewise, there's no coverart for these either. This is
a simple quick and dirty to get a graphic on the screen in mythvideo
for something that otherwise will never have one. <br>
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FWIW, my experience with TMDB is that it has most everything that I am
looking for with the exception of MPAA ratings (or any other rating
board's ratings for that matter...)<br>
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John<br>
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