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

[tacka]

Yes, it is possible but it doesn't work well on nautilus. It seems that it doesn't detect transparencies in thumbnails.

Do this at the terminal:

gedit ~/.imdb-thumbnailer/config

and add:

theme_name=shadow

New thumbnails will get the shadow theme.

thx it`s looking great now



http://www.imagecross.com/04/image-h...rka-plik-w.png

[Yuzem]

You are welcome and is good to know that the transparency problem is fixed on Intrepid.

[Psyphre]

This is absolutely fantastic. My thanks to whoever made and contributed to this fantastic script!

I was wondering if this also works for folders?
It works perfectly for normal video files which is fine for movies, but not so much for TV shows. For example I have a battlestar galactica folder which has all the episodes. Is there a way that I can set the folder to have a thumbnail?

In Gutsy I used to be able to just drag an image to set as its folder icon, but for whatever reason in hardy they have removed the border around a thumbnail when its set as an icon.

[Yuzem]

This is absolutely fantastic. My thanks to whoever made and contributed to this fantastic script!

You are welcome.

I was wondering if this also works for folders?
It works perfectly for normal video files which is fine for movies, but not so much for TV shows. For example I have a battlestar galactica folder which has all the episodes. Is there a way that I can set the folder to have a thumbnail?

I think that there are no file manager that allow thumbnails for folders.
You could try avatar-factory that does something similar.

In Gutsy I used to be able to just drag an image to set as its folder icon, but for whatever reason in hardy they have removed the border around a thumbnail when its set as an icon.

That is very strange, normally, the image should be moved or copied to the destination folder.

[Yuzem]

I have posted an idea on ubuntu brainstorm that is related to this application. If you like it you can vote for it. Here it is.

[dannytatom]

Sounds like a great plan to me, so I voted it up.

I have a question regarding the movie thumbnailer, though. I have a rather slow laptop, that doesn't like a lot of things running at once. Does this run constantly, looking for thumbnails everytime I open nautilus or does it look for new ones when it sees a new file and saves the thumbnail?

Sorry for the silly question.

[Yuzem]

Sounds like a great plan to me, so I voted it up.

Thanks

I have a question regarding the movie thumbnailer, though. I have a rather slow laptop, that doesn't like a lot of things running at once. Does this run constantly, looking for thumbnails everytime I open nautilus or does it look for new ones when it sees a new file and saves the thumbnail?

It look for new ones when it sees a new file. The thumbnail is saved. Actually, is the file manager (nautilus/thunar) that tells the thumbnailer to make a thumbnail when it sees a file without thumbnail. It work like any other thumbnailer. Nothing is running constantly in the background.

[dannytatom]

Awesome, then! & I forgot to say thanks for making this, it's wonderful.

[dannytatom]

Sorry to keep bumping this, but it's not working for me. Is there something special the video file needs other than to be named correctly?

Edit: It seems I don't have a ~/.imdb-thumbnailer/ folder, or a config file inside of it. I tried running 'gedit ~/.imdb-thumbnailer/config' anyway, it opened a blank text editor, but wouldn't let me save what I wrote.

Should I go ahead and create the directory and file myself, or no?

[QwUo173Hy]

I'm getting this error

jarlath@jarlath-laptop:~$ imdb-thumbnailer
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
RuntimeError: unknown error
stat: cannot stat `': No such file or directory
stat: cannot stat `': No such file or directory
couldn't parse command-line options: Cannot parse integer value '' for -s
jarlath@jarlath-laptop:~$

My config looks like this:

films_path[1]=/home/jarlath/Videos