Comments on: Video thumbnails for MythTV http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv scratched tallies on the prison wall Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:45:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: https://launchpad.net/~mthaddon http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-109350 https://launchpad.net/~mthaddon Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:13:29 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-109350 Here's a diff that captures the error output (in my case, I was having a problem where I hadn't installed certain codecs in totem, so it couldn't capture the thumbnail) and displays them (and doesn't update the DB unless there's no error). === modified file 'covers_for_missing.py' --- covers_for_missing.py       2008-03-18 19:05:17 +0000 +++ covers_for_missing.py       2008-03-18 19:11:58 +0000 @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@  #!/usr/bin/python -import MySQLdb, os, re + +import os +import re +import commands +import MySQLdb    if not os.path.exists("/usr/bin/totem-video-thumbnailer"):    raise "This script requires totem-video-thumbnailer" @@ -26,7 +30,7 @@  crs.execute(sql)  VIDEO_DIR = crs.fetchone()[0]  # get all files without covers -cmd = 'totem-video-thumbnailer -j -s 600 "%s" "%s" >/dev/null 2>&1' +cmd = 'totem-video-thumbnailer -j -s 600 "%s" "%s"'  sql = "select intid, filename from videometadata where coverfile = 'No Cover';"  crs.execute(sql)  VIDEOS = [] @@ -42,8 +46,11 @@    else:      cmd_exec = cmd % (filename, full_output)      print "Thumbnailing", os.path.split(filename)[1] -    os.system(cmd_exec) -    VIDEOS.append((intid,full_output)) +    status, output = commands.getstatusoutput(cmd_exec) +    if not status: +      VIDEOS.append((intid,full_output)) +    else: +      print status, output, cmd_exec    sql = "update videometadata set coverfile = %s where intid = %s limit 1;"  for intid, thumbnail in VIDEOS: Here’s a diff that captures the error output (in my case, I was having a problem where I hadn’t installed certain codecs in totem, so it couldn’t capture the thumbnail) and displays them (and doesn’t update the DB unless there’s no error).

=== modified file ’covers_for_missing.py’
— covers_for_missing.py       2008-03-18 19:05:17 +0000
+++ covers_for_missing.py       2008-03-18 19:11:58 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
-import MySQLdb, os, re
+
+import os
+import re
+import commands
+import MySQLdb
 
 if not os.path.exists(”/usr/bin/totem-video-thumbnailer”):
   raise ”This script requires totem-video-thumbnailer”
@@ -26,7 +30,7 @@
 crs.execute(sql)
 VIDEO_DIR = crs.fetchone()[0]
 # get all files without covers
-cmd = ’totem-video-thumbnailer -j -s 600 ”%s” ”%s” >/dev/null 2>&1′
+cmd = ’totem-video-thumbnailer -j -s 600 ”%s” ”%s”‘
 sql = ”select intid, filename from videometadata where coverfile = ’No Cover’;”
 crs.execute(sql)
 VIDEOS = []
@@ -42,8 +46,11 @@
   else:
     cmd_exec = cmd % (filename, full_output)
     print ”Thumbnailing”, os.path.split(filename)[1]
-    os.system(cmd_exec)
-    VIDEOS.append((intid,full_output))
+    status, output = commands.getstatusoutput(cmd_exec)
+    if not status:
+      VIDEOS.append((intid,full_output))
+    else:
+      print status, output, cmd_exec
 
 sql = ”update videometadata set coverfile = %s where intid = %s limit 1;”
 for intid, thumbnail in VIDEOS:

]]> By: sil http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-109309 sil Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:43:15 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-109309 mat: should just work, as far as I am aware. mat: should just work, as far as I am aware.

]]> By: mat http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-109299 mat Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:24:05 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-109299 Do I have to change passwords aor anything? Yunno, alter the script in any way - or just run it? Do I have to change passwords aor anything? Yunno, alter the script in any way - or just run it?

]]> By: sil http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-107859 sil Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:04:57 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-107859 hads: ooh, that's rather cool. I like the sound of those! hads: ooh, that’s rather cool. I like the sound of those!

]]> By: hads http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-107858 hads Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:03:10 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-107858 Just so you know there are some Python bindings in MythTV now which make writing little scripts like this easier. They handle connecting to the myth backend and database getting settings etc. They will be included in the upcoming 0.21 release. Just so you know there are some Python bindings in MythTV now which make writing little scripts like this easier. They handle connecting to the myth backend and database getting settings etc. They will be included in the upcoming 0.21 release.

]]> By: Tom http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-107530 Tom Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:32:46 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-107530 . .

]]> By: Tom http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-107529 Tom Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:32:20 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-107529 . .

]]> By: sil http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-107483 sil Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:14:29 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-107483 Thom: that'd require MythTV itself to do some of the work, I think. Hm...I wonder if animated gifs would work? Thom: that’d require MythTV itself to do some of the work, I think. Hm…I wonder if animated gifs would work?

]]> By: Thom http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-107476 Thom Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:05:37 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-107476 What would be cool is if you could get moving thumbnails ala youporn.com (best example I could think of!), I imagine this wouldn't be much harder to do What would be cool is if you could get moving thumbnails ala youporn.com (best example I could think of!), I imagine this wouldn’t be much harder to do

]]> By: Elzapp http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-107474 Elzapp Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:57:24 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/02/11/video-thumbnails-for-mythtv#comment-107474 Nice solution :) Nice solution :)

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