[MEncoder-users] Thumbnail creation

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Hi,

let me explain what the application looks like. The whole thing is a webapp
written in Java, mplayer/mencoder is called from within there using
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command). What I want to accomplish now is to
create a sort of rough overview of the video file using thumbs. So I take
the length of the file in seconds and calculate points I want to have a
thumb from. So I need to be able to specify for example for a 50 sec. video
to make thumbs at e.g. 10/25/40 sec. And since this does not work out with
-ss, and only having the ability to make thumbs at the very begining of the
file is not an option, I'm looking for a different solution.

This is my problem ; )
Joachim

On 8/9/06, Nicolas George <nicolas.george at ens.fr> wrote:
>
>
> Why should it not work for you? Unless your video is very very short, a 5
> frames offset with not change what is the middle, and you can rarely seek
> to
> the very end anyway, just a few frames before it.
>
> And I do not think that decoding five frames instead of one makes a
> significant difference in time with regard to the time for mplayer
> startup.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>   Nicolas George
>