Howto: Movie covers as video thumbnails (hack) (it works for books too)

[Yuzem]

I don't know much about proxies. imdb-thumbnailer uses wget, I did a search in google and I found this

I theory you have to do the following:

sudo gedit $(which imdb-thumbnailer)

After the first line add:

export http_proxy="http://username:password@proxy.example.com:8080"

You have to reemplace username password port etc with your settings.

Then do a search for wget, there should be 3 matches.
For every match you have to add "-proxy=on" after wget.
For example this:

wget -U firefox -qO - "http://www.google.com... etc

Must be changed to this:

wget -proxy=on -U firefox -qO - "http://www.google.ccom... etc

[Voorhees1979]

Is there anything like this for kde's konqueror

[RD1]

Help!!!! cli update suddenly stopped working!

rodger@Bodhisattva:~/Videos$ bash -x imdb-thumbnailer --set "Forever Knight 320 - Francesa.avi" thumbnail.jpg
+ version=0.7.4
+ themes_PATH=/usr/local/share/avatar-factory/themes
+ size=128
+ covers=/home/azd/Network/Programming/figuritas/config/web/movies/movies/256
+ movie_manager='/home/azd/Network/Programming/figuritas/figuritas movies'
+ video_extensions='
		application@ogg
		application@smil
		application@vnd.rn-realmedia
		application@vnd.rn-realvideo
		application@x-extension-m4a
		application@x-extension-mp4
		application@x-flash-video
		application@x-matroska
		application@x-ms-asf
		application@x-ogg
		application@x-quicktime-media-link
		application@x-shockwave-flash
		application@x-shorten
		application@x-smil
		application@xspf@xml
		audio@x-pn-realaudio
		image@vnd.rn-realpix
		image@vnd.rn-realpix
		misc@ultravox
		video@3gpp
		video@dv
		video@mp4
		video@mpeg
		video@msvideo
		video@quicktime
		video@vnd.divx
		video@vnd.rn-realvideo
		video@x-anim
		video@x-avi
		video@x-flc
		video@x-fli
		video@x-m4v
		video@x-matroska
		video@x-mpeg
		video@x-ms-asf
		video@x-msvideo
		video@x-ms-wmv
		video@x-nsv
		video@x-ogm@ogg
	'
+ [[ -z '' ]]
+ config_FILE=/home/rodger/.imdb-thumbnailer/config
+ '[' -f /home/rodger/.imdb-thumbnailer/config ']'
+ . /home/rodger/.imdb-thumbnailer/config
++ films_path[1]=/home/rodger/Videos
++ films_path[2]=/media/500GB/Movies
++ theme_name=shadow
+ [[ -z --set ]]
+ parameters='--set Forever Knight 320 - Francesa.avi thumbnail.jpg'
+ '[' --set '!=' '' ']'
+ case $1 in
+ shift
+ '[' 'Forever Knight 320 - Francesa.avi' '!=' '' ']'
+ set_thumbnail 'Forever Knight 320 - Francesa.avi' thumbnail.jpg
+ file_path='Forever Knight 320 - Francesa.avi'
+ grabber_picture=thumbnail.jpg
+ [[ -f Forever Knight 320 - Francesa.avi ]]
+ [[ -n thumbnail.jpg ]]
++ stat --format=%y-%s 'Forever Knight 320 - Francesa.avi'
+ file_time_size='2009-07-17 12:58:16.000000000 -0400-1049186922'
+ file_time_size='2009-07-17 12:58:16-1049186922'
+ cover_name='2009-07-17 12:58:16-1049186922'
+ cover_path=/home/rodger/.imdb-thumbnailer/covers
+ [[ -d /home/rodger/.imdb-thumbnailer/covers ]]
+ convert thumbnail.jpg -thumbnail 256x256 '/home/rodger/.imdb-thumbnailer/covers/2009-07-17 12:58:16-1049186922.png'
+ update_thumbnail 'Forever Knight 320 - Francesa.avi'
+ file_path='Forever Knight 320 - Francesa.avi'
+ [[ -f Forever Knight 320 - Francesa.avi ]]
++ stat --format=%y-%s 'Forever Knight 320 - Francesa.avi'
+ file_time_size='2009-07-17 12:58:16.000000000 -0400-1049186922'
+ file_time_size='2009-07-17 12:58:16-1049186922'
+ file_time='2009-07-17 12:58:16'
+ [[ -n 2009-07-17 12:58:16 ]]
+ cover_name='2009-07-17 12:58:16-1049186922'
+ cover_path=/home/rodger/.imdb-thumbnailer/covers
+ second=6
+ case $second in
+ second=7
+ incomplete_time='2009-07-17 12:58:1'
+ new_cover_name='2009-07-17 12:58:17-'
+ [[ -f /home/rodger/.imdb-thumbnailer/covers/2009-07-17 12:58:16-1049186922.png ]]
+ mv '/home/rodger/.imdb-thumbnailer/covers/2009-07-17 12:58:16-1049186922.png' '/home/rodger/.imdb-thumbnailer/covers/2009-07-17 12:58:17-.png'
+ touch 'Forever Knight 320 - Francesa.avi' -d '2009-07-17 12:58:17'
+ shift
+ shift
+ '[' '' '!=' '' ']'
+ exit
rodger@Bodhisattva:~/Videos$

Icon changes to "working" then goes back to default thumbnail.

[Yuzem]

There is a new version.

Sorry RD1, I just read your post, let me know if the problem persist.

[draki]

Does anyone have imdb-thumbnailer working in 11.10? I had it working fine in 11.04 and decided to do a clean install. But nothing I do seems to get it to work - I only have the stock gnome thumbnails

any advice would be much appreciated

thank you

[Yuzem]

I only have the stock gnome thumbnails

So you have the standard video frame thumbnails, I think the problem is the new nautilus using dconf instead of gconf. I will take a look.

[Yuzem]

I think this should work:

sudo gedit /usr/share/thumbnailers/imdb.thumbnailer

Paste this text and save the file:

[Thumbnailer Entry]
TryExec=/usr/bin/imdb-thumbnailer
Exec=/usr/bin/imdb-thumbnailer -s %s %u %o
MimeType=application/mxf;application/ogg;application/ram;application/sdp;application/vnd.ms-wpl;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;application/x-extension-m4a;application/x-extension-mp4;application/x-flash-video;application/x-matroska;application/x-netshow-channel;application/x-ogg;application/x-quicktimeplayer;application/x-shorten;image/vnd.rn-realpix;image/x-pict;misc/ultravox;text/x-google-video-pointer;video/3gpp;video/dv;video/fli;video/flv;video/mp2t;video/mp4;video/mp4v-es;video/mpeg;video/msvideo;video/ogg;video/quicktime;video/vivo;video/vnd.divx;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;video/vnd.vivo;video/webm;video/x-anim;video/x-avi;video/x-flc;video/x-fli;video/x-flic;video/x-flv;video/x-m4v;video/x-matroska;video/x-mpeg;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-asx;video/x-msvideo;video/x-ms-wm;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-ms-wmx;video/x-ms-wvx;video/x-nsv;video/x-ogm+ogg;video/x-theora+ogg;video/x-totem-stream;audio/x-pn-realaudio;audio/3gpp;audio/ac3;audio/AMR;audio/AMR-WB;audio/basic;audio/midi;audio/mp2;audio/mp4;audio/mpeg;audio/ogg;audio/prs.sid;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;audio/x-aiff;audio/x-ape;audio/x-flac;audio/x-gsm;audio/x-it;audio/x-m4a;audio/x-matroska;audio/x-mod;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/x-ms-asf;audio/x-ms-asx;audio/x-ms-wax;audio/x-ms-wma;audio/x-musepack;audio/x-pn-aiff;audio/x-pn-au;audio/x-pn-wav;audio/x-pn-windows-acm;audio/x-realaudio;audio/x-real-audio;audio/x-sbc;audio/x-speex;audio/x-tta;audio/x-wav;audio/x-wavpack;audio/x-vorbis;audio/x-vorbis+ogg;audio/x-xm;application/x-flac;

Now do:

mv /usr/share/thumbnailers/totem.thumbnailer /usr/share/thumbnailers/totem.thumbnailer.back
nautilus -q

Please let me know if it works.

[draki]

That seems to have fixed it Yuzem - thank you very much indeed

I needed to remove all movies and re-add them using -r and -u and all seems to be good now - my Films' folder looks great again

thank you

[draki]

That seems to have fixed it Yuzem - thank you very much indeed

I needed to remove all movies and re-add them using -r and -u and all seems to be good now - my Films' folder looks great again

thank you

I spoke too soon

A few thumbs updated with covers so I left it thinking that they will all update

I came back a while later, applied an update and the thumbs had reverted to the Totem thumbs

I checked the changes you suggested and they are still present

It seems the folder ~/.thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory is full

The ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers entries are still there - should I remove them?

Any further ideas?

[Yuzem]

The ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers entries are still there - should I remove them?

I believe there is no need to remove them.

Try this:

rm -r ~/.thumbnails/fail
imdb-thumbnailer -r some-video.avi
imdb-thumbnailer -u some-video.avi

If that doesn't work you can check if the thumbnailer is being used:

gedit .imdb-thumbnailer/config

And add this somewhere:

zenity --info

Then do an -r and -u on some video and see if a dialog pops before the thumbnail is made, if it does, then the thumbnailer is working, maybe you don't have the path added in the config file for that folder.