i've taken the scripts written by segaera (
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/182848?search_string=mythvideo%20thumbnails;#182848) and consolidated everything into one script. also, this script will run the query to get the videos to update only once, whereas segaera's is running once for each video. furthermore, this script takes the length of the video into account when skipping ahead for the screenshot position. a percentage is used instead of a fixed value to get a good capture in videos of widely varying lengths. here it is:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# this script will loop through all videos in videometadata,
# capture a screenshot for each, move each screenshot to the
# COVERPATH dir, and update each row in videometadata with
# the appropriate information. Only rows with coverfile=
# 'No Cover' are processed. A percentage of the length
# of each video is used for the capture position to account
# for clips of widely varying lengths.
# only run as mythtv so writing to /myth is allowed
if [ $(whoami) != 'mythtv' ]; then
echo "This script must run under user mythtv."
exit 1
fi
# intialize variables
DB='mythconverg'
USER='root'
OUTPATH='/tmp'
COVERPATH='/myth/video/.covers'
FRAME='00000002.jpg'
SKIPOFFSET='35'
# query videos with no cover image
VIDEOS="mysql $DB -u $USER \
-e \"SELECT intid,filename FROM videometadata \
WHERE coverfile='No Cover';\" -BN"
sh -c "$VIDEOS"|while read line
#echo "$FILE"|while read line
do
ID=`echo "$line" |cut -f 1`
FILE=`echo "$line" |cut -f 2`
echo "processing $FILE with primary key id $ID"
# if video is mpeg, use ffmpeg12 codec to avoid pixelation
if echo "$FILE" | egrep ".*\.mp[e]*g" ; then
VC='-vc ffmpeg12'
else
VC=''
fi
# use mplayer to get length of video in seconds
length=`mplayer -vo null -nosound -identify \
-vc dummy "$FILE" | \
egrep "^(ID_LENGTH=)" | cut -d '=' -f 2`
if [ -z $length ]; then
echo "mplayer was unable to get the $FILE length."
continue
fi
SKIP=`echo $length*$SKIPOFFSET/100|bc -l`
echo "calcuated skip seconds: $SKIP"
# command to get jpeg from video
mplayer -noframedrop -ss $SKIP -vo \
jpeg:quality=50:outdir=$OUTPATH -frames 2 $VC -nosound "$FILE" &
wait
echo mv $OUTPATH/$FRAME $COVERPATH/intid.$ID.jpg
# move jpeg from outpath to coverpath
if ! mv -f "$OUTPATH/$FRAME" "$COVERPATH/intid.$ID.jpg" ; then
echo "Move failed. Will not update videometadata table..."
rm -f "$OUTPATH/$FRAME"
else
# SQL to update table with cover image path
UPDATE=`mysql $DB -u $USER \
-e "UPDATE videometadata SET coverfile='$COVERPATH/intid.$ID.jpg' \
WHERE intid=$ID LIMIT 1 ;" -BN`
fi
done
exit 0