I have been using CarrierWave for file uploads on a site which needs to accept
a really wide range of different movie formats, stills, PDFs... And I have been
struggling with making thumbnails of certain formats. After much yak-shaving
with ffmpeg and imagemagick and Rmagick, I finally decided to do a little spike
app with nothing but Paperclip. I set up the simplest thing that could possibly
work:
has_attached_file :blob, :styles => { :thumb => ["320x320>", :png], :large =>
["1500x1500>", :png] }
And no matter what format (within reason) I pass to it, I get a nicely formed
PNG format thumbnail and large preview image. PSD, PDF, TIFF, MOV, M4V -- it
Just Works™. And I cannot figure out how it is doing this, despite reading
through the source code for quite a while.
The reason why I need to access the magic is that while I am getting a nice
thumbnail from any movie format I pass in, I am getting the very first frame of
the movie (usually black) rather than a few seconds into the clip. In my
CarrierWave converter, I had a custom offset time defined for this. But I
cannot see where Paperclip is defining what to do with a video to generate a
PNG image so I can alter this default.
There are tons of examples on SO and the Web in general, showing how to create
a custom video thumbnailer and transcoder, but I would like to avoid rebuilding
this wheel that Paperclip seems to have hewn out of pure Elven magick.
Thanks in advance,
Walter
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