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A better way of getting thumbnails, ffmpegthumbnailer?

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AlecTBM

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Post Sun Jun 19, 2011 5:21 pm

A better way of getting thumbnails, ffmpegthumbnailer?

Hello
I have seen that making thumbnails take quite som time, and is really CPU heavy.
The is an lighter and faster way of doing this.
ffmpegthumbnailer is an project that aimes to this
http://code.google.com/p/ffmpegthumbnailer/

Is there posible to implent this?
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zip

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Post Sun Jun 19, 2011 7:16 pm

Re: A better way of getting thumbnails, ffmpegthumbnailer?

Serviio already uses ffmpeg to generate the thumbnails.
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AlecTBM

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Post Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:03 pm

Re: A better way of getting thumbnails, ffmpegthumbnailer?

Yes, but serviio uses at least one minute, and I just checked the ffmpegthumbnailer CLI version:
real 0m0.050s
user 0m0.036s
sys 0m0.016s

The different is big in both time and CPU used
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zip

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Post Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:08 am

Re: A better way of getting thumbnails, ffmpegthumbnailer?

There is going to be hopefully an improvement in 0.6 in this regard
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AlecTBM

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Post Wed Jun 22, 2011 6:38 pm

Re: A better way of getting thumbnails, ffmpegthumbnailer?

Very good :)

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