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<blockquote data-quote="kiwijunglist" data-source="post: 926410" data-attributes="member: 76888"><p>I've looked into this a bit further</p><p> </p><p>I would be able to code a replacement for mtn.exe using ffmpeg to grab screenshots and an imagemagick script (open source, freeware) to combine the screenshots into a final thumbnail.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Advantages</strong></p><p>Works with h264 because I would use latest ffmpeg build</p><p>[ATTACH=full]113385[/ATTACH]</p><p>I could add the option to superimpose the tv channel image from the \thumbs\tv\logos folder into the corner of the thumbnail</p><p>I could add the option to have the date written into the image</p><p>[ATTACH=full]113386[/ATTACH]</p><p>I could add the option to have the show name written onto the image</p><p>[ATTACH=full]113388[/ATTACH]</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>With a Little help from others</p><p>Could probably have the option to look up the recordded show name on thetvdb, if exists use the fanart image to create the thumbnail</p><p>[ATTACH=full]113387[/ATTACH]</p><p>Could probably have the option to look up the recorded show name on thetvdb, if exists use the fanart image and banner image to create a thumbnail</p><p>[ATTACH=full]113389[/ATTACH]</p><p>Could probably have the option if the tv recording has season + episode + showname information, then look up the tvdb and grab the episode image from there and use that</p><p>[ATTACH=full]113390[/ATTACH]</p><p> </p><p><strong>Disadvantage</strong></p><p>mtn has several features such as discarding a frame if it is blurry / too dark, I don't know how to code for this.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I definitely wouldn't be able to code any of this into an actual patch, but I could present it as a simple script / set of commands or .bat file that could be easily incorporated by someone that wanted to patch the changes into mediaportal. Imagemagick commandline tool gives the abliity to combine images, alter images and add text to images, I used it to write a script that makes custom disc images for the dvdart plugin so pretty sure I could do this as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kiwijunglist, post: 926410, member: 76888"] I've looked into this a bit further I would be able to code a replacement for mtn.exe using ffmpeg to grab screenshots and an imagemagick script (open source, freeware) to combine the screenshots into a final thumbnail. [B]Advantages[/B] Works with h264 because I would use latest ffmpeg build [ATTACH=full]113385[/ATTACH] I could add the option to superimpose the tv channel image from the \thumbs\tv\logos folder into the corner of the thumbnail I could add the option to have the date written into the image [ATTACH=full]113386[/ATTACH] I could add the option to have the show name written onto the image [ATTACH=full]113388[/ATTACH] With a Little help from others Could probably have the option to look up the recordded show name on thetvdb, if exists use the fanart image to create the thumbnail [ATTACH=full]113387[/ATTACH] Could probably have the option to look up the recorded show name on thetvdb, if exists use the fanart image and banner image to create a thumbnail [ATTACH=full]113389[/ATTACH] Could probably have the option if the tv recording has season + episode + showname information, then look up the tvdb and grab the episode image from there and use that [ATTACH=full]113390[/ATTACH] [B]Disadvantage[/B] mtn has several features such as discarding a frame if it is blurry / too dark, I don't know how to code for this. I definitely wouldn't be able to code any of this into an actual patch, but I could present it as a simple script / set of commands or .bat file that could be easily incorporated by someone that wanted to patch the changes into mediaportal. Imagemagick commandline tool gives the abliity to combine images, alter images and add text to images, I used it to write a script that makes custom disc images for the dvdart plugin so pretty sure I could do this as well. [/QUOTE]
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