On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 22:36 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > That is one solution. Right now the thumbnailer in beacon also uses > mplayer to generate the thumbnails. When we use kaa.xine for that, it > could be faster because we don't have to restart xine. And instead of
I dunno if xine has a mode where it can play frames as fast as it can, basically equivalent to -benchmark. Do you? Without this ability it's not really viable for thumbnailing. > mng, maybe use the rasterman solution: he uses eet to store the images > in raw format and eet will compress them (not as good as png, but > faster). And evas can load images from eet. What is missing is a > simple Timer to replace the images. evas can load eet only if you have that library installed. I've been thinking about an mjpeg solution too, which mplayer can create directly. Files would also be much smaller than png. > OK, Raster is doing much more. If you look at > http://www.rasterman.com/files/rage_08.jpg he also has thumbnails for > different positions in the stream. So let us say 20 thumbnails and > this pushes the 3 seconds to 1 minute. Are they 20 animated thumbnails? (I don't have the video handy.) At any rate, however long it takes, the idea is that this is a background task. Jason. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
