Hi Mark, It sounds like a very good solution for me as I don't have too many videos. But the problem is, how can we mark a image the thumbnail of a video. After we simply upload the image as the bitstream, what should I do to link the image as the video thumbnail? Or this can only be done in command line on the server?
Cheers, Fan On 2011-5-5, at 下午5:53, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 03:13:08PM +0100, Fan Zhu wrote: >> Is anyone know how to generate thumbnail for .mpeg, .avi, etc? It looks like >> the default dspace package only provide us a way to generate the thumbnail >> for images and document files. >> Is there any specified package I should use? > > This is probably beyond the scope of DSpace. The best that an > autonomous process could do for video is probably to extract the first > frame and shrink it. That might not be a very good choice -- the > first frame might not have the titling or anything else representative > of the whole. > > The best I can come up with is to load the video into an editor, pick > a frame that would make a good thumbnail, export it as a still image > (JPEG, PNG), resample to an appropriate size, and add that to the Item > as the thumbnail. Or the people who made the video may have prepared > still images for promotional purposes -- ask them. > > There are probably a lot of tools that can export frames from videos. > I just tried VLC (a player) and Cinelerra (an editor) and both worked well. > > -- > Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu > Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software > The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network > management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial > acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd_______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
