Forum topic: Choose thumbnail
Submitted by Guest on Fri, 2007/12/14 - 15:20.
Hi Jonathan,
How difficult will be to have the option of choosing which thumbnail to use instead of just being able to set up the first one or the 33% one.
Having the option to get the image at 33% of the video is definitely really important, rather than the first of the video (most of times, not video itself... maybe black, or a title...).
So, I'm quite happy with that solution, but there are cases where the image at 33% is also very bad (not self explain lets say).
My suggestion (maybe you want to implement it, maybe you want to give me some tips and I'll try to do it...) will be to create some more thumbnails (lets say, at 20%, 40%, 60% and 80%) and display all that images together, and asking the user to select the one that works best.
This is just adding some more ffmpeg calls, so I imagine that it's not hard to get.
The option of playing the video, and pause it in the best moment it's not the option, at least I think it's much difficult to implement.
As I know that calling 4 times ffmpeg to create images (and we will only keep one of that images) is not optimal at all, maybe the best will be keep the module with the 33% option, BUT add some small functionality like "Change thumbnail image", and once you go there, ffmpeg is called 4 times and then you choose the best image.... This means that ffmpeg will just need more calls when an user wants to change the thumb.
As you can see, I never think about uploading the thumb from the user computer; this is more work for the users, so will not work (in general). As an admin, maybe I'll prefer to create my image and upload it to the server, rather than choose from a few images generated on the server.
Please let me know what do you think about that!
Thanks,
ferran
Great idea, further thinking: the module could display all the images at 10%, 20%... 90%, and in this way create a preview of the video.
Yep, but my idea is to change the thumbnail, but having a prieview with 9 images, than starts changing when you have the mouse over the first thumbnail, will be a great idea.
Ok, it's time to donate this project to help implementing this feature :)
hehe yep!
But wait, because I know that some new features are coming very soon... I want to know which ones are, and then, keep focusing in this one and some others already importants!
I like the idea of grabbing ten images and then letting the user choose. There is much improved thumbnailing and custom thumbnails in 5.x-3.x-dev.
By the way, it is a divine rule of the universe that the frame at 1/3 of video duration is always representative of the video as a whole. I think I shall call it "Jonny's Observation".
hahaha
I agree that the image at 1/3 is normally representative, but when you work with lots of videos, there are many that doesn't get an apropiate caption.
Getting 10 thumbnails will allow the user to select the best one, and we could use that images to show a "preview" of the video, like an old gif image.
But my idea is continue doing the caption at 1/3, automatically, because if now you change the module and the user must select the image for every video, is a step back. The power will be in having the option to do it, but the default at 1/3 rocks ;)
Much better now, with the option of choosing the first one or the 1/3 one, and also the option to upload a new one!
This is really useful now.
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