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Create thumbnails from movies

Create thumbnails from movies

Introduction
The Solution
Example Script

Introduction

Sometimes you want to catalogue your movies with thumbnail images from the movie.

The following example script should be saved in /usr/local/bin or somewhere in your path. As you can see, this script will run through all the movies in the current directory and create thumbnails in the default mythtv MythVideo directory.

This script was written to perform a particular task, and a more generic script would be better.

#!/bin/bash
# Creates a thumbnail of an mpeg

for a in *.mpg; do
    if [ -f "$a" ]; then
        b="${a%.mpg}"
        if [ -f "/home/mythtv/.mythtv/MythVideo/${b}.jpg" ]; then
            echo "/home/mythtv/.mythtv/MythVideo/${b}.jpg already exists"
        else
            ffmpeg -itsoffset -240  -i "$a" -vcodec mjpeg -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo -s 320x240 "/home/mythtv/.mythtv/MythVideo/${b}.jpg"
        fi
    fi
done

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Create thumbnails from movies

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Introduction

The Solution

Example Script