JJZolx;660161 Wrote:
> Yeah, I never really got an answer to that one.
>
> It'd be interesting knowing how a frame from a video is chosen to
> represent it.
>
I'm guessing it's random or taken at a specific time a few minutes
after the start of the movie, which probably rarely is going to result
in a image you are familiar with. The result is that the images might
look nice in the user interface but they aren't really improving the
usability by making it easier/faster to find things.
Ideally I'd like some kind of IMDb integration, similar to the LastFM
album cover retrieval, that would result in images which I'm familiar
with and would increase the usability when browsing. However, I guess
an IMDb integration gets more complicated since Logitech needs to
arrange business agreements and in this case making it possible to at
least provide your own cover.jpg or similar would solve the problems.
Also, for my MythTV library, MythTV is already providing images, if I
have a video file like:
2314_20090103210000.mpg
There is also a image in the same directory:
2314_20081204215500.mpg.png
I wonder how other video recorders handles this, if they also generate
a jpg/png the LMS scanning could probably get quite a lot faster if it
would just use the already existing image produced by some external
software. It's likely not going to increase the usability since the
external software also just take a random frame and put it as an image,
but it's going to make the scanning faster I suspect, which would be
good.
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