Screen grabber (for movie libraries) improvements

[levander 97]

Could there be some kind of “fix” or an option to use screen grabber feature for actual thumbs/backdrop from a movie rather than poster (primary image) in movie libraries?

I can understand that screen grab is used as primary image for home/mixed/tv shows/music video types of library but for movies it doesn’t make much sense...

 

 

[Luke 42079]

In a movie library you're only ever going to see it if a poster couldn't be downloaded from the internet.

[levander 97]

For episodes this works fine but for movies it simply doesn't look good. Screen grabs are alway landscape anyway. So if I rename screen grab poster.jpg to fanart.jpg the image is still visible as primary image only not squeezed and with correct aspect ratio:

 

 (screen grab as fanart.jpg)

 

 

(screen grab as poster.jpg)

[horstepipe 422]

I was just trying out screen grabber for the first time. I expected that this would add backdrops for movies where I do not have backdrops, but it doesn't. Wouldn't that feature make most sense?

Edited June 10, 2021 by horstepipe

[Carlo 4561]

Screen grabber is used to create posters for media items when there are no local or internet (meta-data) based ones available.  Think of it as a last resort for getting you a poster for the media like movies or shows.

For your home movies and photos it of course is really the only way to generate these easily without you doing it outside of Emby.

[horstepipe 422]

12 minutes ago, cayars said:

Screen grabber is used to create posters for media items when there are no local or internet (meta-data) based ones available.  Think of it as a last resort for getting you a poster for the media like movies or shows.

For your home movies and photos it of course is really the only way to generate these easily without you doing it outside of Emby.

I understand and am aware. But shouldn't this also being used for what I said? For movies where no backdrops are available on all online metadata fetchers?

Edited June 10, 2021 by horstepipe

[Luke 42079]

A random still for a backdrop? I don't think that would be a good idea.

[horstepipe 422]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

A random still for a backdrop? I don't think that would be a good idea.

better than nothing I guess...

[Happy2Play 9781]

I know MCM does exactly that when there are no provider backdrops it extract x number of image from said video.

Automatically extract frames from video files if artwork is not found

 

[horstepipe 422]

sorry don't know what mcm is

[Happy2Play 9781]

Just now, horstepipe said:

sorry don't know what mcm is

Media Center Master

[horstepipe 422]

6 minutes ago, horstepipe said:

better than nothing I guess...

I mean, you can enable or disable that scraper for each libary, so I'd personally would like to see that option.

[Happy2Play 9781]

Emby could technically save this screen grab as fanart/backdrop instead of Primary poster to get the same effect.

[Nolovenodie 1]

于 2020/3/5 于 AM2点19分, levander 说道:

对于剧集，这很好用，但对于电影，它看起来并不好看。无论如何，屏幕抓取始终是横向的。因此，如果我将屏幕抓取 poster.jpg 重命名为 fanart.jpg，图像仍然可以作为主图像可见，只是没有被挤压并且具有正确的纵横比：

 

 （屏幕抓取为 fanart.jpg）

 

 

（屏幕抓取为海报.jpg）

如何自动裁剪到合适的尺寸？

[Luke 42079]

21 hours ago, Nolovenodie said:

如何自动裁剪到合适的尺寸？

Hi, can you show us a screenshot example of what you're looking to do? Thanks.