Dodgy Bob 45 Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Hey folks, In having a reasonably populated Media Folder that is also locked - locked because I know that there is no downloadable metadata for the files contained within, at least not correct metadata anyway - can I please request that we be able to manually extract images from media files to be used as the poster/thumbnail images please? So rather than Emby Server / Metadata Manager doing it automatically in the background on an unlocked Media Folder, we could do it ourselves, when we want and even on a locked Media Folder. And then further to that, is it possible that this option could be tweaked so that we could possibly be able to select any still within said media file please? That is to say, rather than Emby Server / Metadata Manager just grabbing whatever still happens to be at the 10sec mark (or whatever the Emby Server / Metadata Manager default is) we, the user, could choose the still at 1sec or 1min or 32min32sec, etc. Please let me know if that makes sense or not! Kind regards, Dodgy Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14948 Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Again, I think changing your media folder type to "Home Videos" will solve this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleficarum 68 Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 While not integrated into the server, I have an app I made that can grab images at whatever point in the file you wish and dump them to a folder of your choice that I use when no images can be found. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgy Bob 45 Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 Again, I think changing your media folder type to "Home Videos" will solve this problem. Thanks ebr and I will. I'll be trying this later on today. Will post back in the other thread to let you know how I have got on. While not integrated into the server, I have an app I made that can grab images at whatever point in the file you wish and dump them to a folder of your choice that I use when no images can be found. Oh really Maleficarum! Schweeet. Any chance you could pass it on or is it already widely available to the Emby community? I wonder if your app is something that could be changed into a plug-in for emby that would give Emby the feature that I am after? Thanks for passing on the info Regards, Dodgy Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleficarum 68 Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 It's a bit rough but I'll post it later. It requires a copy of ffmpeg.exe which you'll need to drop into it's folder as I'm not sure whether you can distribute that or not (maybe @@ebr can advise on that). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8330 Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 It's a bit rough but I'll post it later. It requires a copy of ffmpeg.exe which you'll need to drop into it's folder as I'm not sure whether you can distribute that or not (maybe @@ebr can advise on that). Many programs use ffmpeg, hell I just searched my computer and found 5 copies for different programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleficarum 68 Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Many programs use ffmpeg, hell I just searched my computer and found 5 copies for different programs. Lol fair enough. I'll post it in a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgy Bob 45 Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 Lol fair enough. I'll post it in a bit. ...and I was going to add, surely most everyone who is running Emby is going to have a local copy of FFmpeg somewhere on their machine, so even with some basic doco to say "hey, open Windows Explorer and search C: for FFmpeg.exe and when found, copy the file to where you unzipped my program", surely that would suffice and get folks using it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleficarum 68 Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Yeah I was going to do either that or have it pop a box asking you to tell it where a ffmpeg.exe is if it couldn't find one in it's folder but as long as I can bundle it it's not a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleficarum 68 Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Here you go - http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/20906-screenshot-grabber/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgy Bob 45 Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 Here you go - http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/20906-screenshot-grabber/ Thanks heaps Maleficarum I'll go and give it a burl in just a moment and let you know how I get on. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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