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

[Yuzem]

That is a bug but you must type some arguments. Try this:

imdb-thumbnailer --help

[QwUo173Hy]

Oh, ok Yuzem. I thought it would work automatically like Avatar Factory did. I'll try that

Thanks for your work!

[ralphmerridew]

The --unset-nautilus option doesn't remove it.

1: It appears the test "[[ $1 = "-r" ]] && ..." is failing, so $thumbnailer isn't changed.
2: Even if that worked, the call to gconftool ignores $thumbnailer.

[Yuzem]

What a strange thing...
Could it be a bug in bash? Are you using Intrepid? I'm using hardy and I think it is working correctly here.

Can you test this:

test=-r
[[ $test = "-r" ]] && echo yes

Does it say yes?

Maybe replacing line 221 with:

		[[ $1 ]] && thumbnailer='/usr/bin/gnome-video-thumbnailer -s %s %u %o'

Thanks for reporting.

[Fabioamd87]

2 question:

this work on ArchLinux?
if yes, in what format should be the film name?

I've tried with "the truman show (1998).avi" but nothing...

[Yuzem]

It works on nautilus and thunar (gnome or xfce).
I think that it should work also in kde but I don't know how to set the thumbnailer.

It uses google to search, the first result is taken. From your example:

site:imdb.com/title the truman show (1998)

In that case it should work also without the year, it is very flexible.
Maybe you haven't set the thumbnailer. Read the instructions:

imdb-thumbnailer --help

If you are using nautilus, nautilus does not update the thumbnail when the file is renamed, you have to update it manually:

imdb-thumbnailer -u video1.avi video2.avi etc...

[Fabioamd87]

mmm this is not the right cover...

[Yuzem]

That is very strange, I just created a text file named "The Truman Show (1998).avi" and I get the right cover.

Are you using thunar or nautilus?

Try this at the command line:
(Replace /films/path and be sure that those files don't exist or they will be overwrite)

> "/films/path/The  Truman Show (1998) 1.avi"

and/or:

> "/films/path/The  Truman Show.avi"

Do they get the right cover?

[Fabioamd87]

what kind of command is this?

[Yuzem]

It creates those files, you can use "touch" instead:

touch "/films/path/The  Truman Show.avi"

"touch" is better since it doesn't overwrite any file.

">" is used normally like this:

echo "testing" > ~/Desktop/test

It creates a file named test in your desktop containing the text: "testing"