mplayer conversion - UGLY pictures

mplayer conversion - UGLY pictures

[GMane]

I am using mplayer to convert .avi to .jpg thumbnails for a web page that
allows users to click on the thumbnail to view the movie.  I use a php
script to do this.  I am using the following command to convert the movies:

exec( "cd $basedir; /usr/local/bin/mplayer -noautosub -vo jpeg -xy
100 -zoom -frames 1 $file", $return );

It seems to die if I don't use the -noautosub option.

When I use -zoom to scale the image I lose a lot of the colors.

Is there some way I can preserve my beautiful pictures?



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RE: mplayer conversion - UGLY pictures

[Riley Williams]

Hi.

 > I am using mplayer to convert .avi to .jpg thumbnails for a web page
 > that allows users to click on the thumbnail to view the movie. I use
 > a php script to do this. I am using the following command to convert 
 > the movies:
 >
 > exec( "cd $basedir; /usr/local/bin/mplayer -noautosub -vo jpeg -xy \
 >		100 -zoom -frames 1 $file", $return );
 >
 > It seems to die if I don't use the -noautosub option.
 >
 > When I use -zoom to scale the image I lose a lot of the colors.
 >
 > Is there some way I can preserve my beautiful pictures?

I can't help with mplayer directly, but one possible option is to use
mplayer without the zoom to create same size images, then use convert
(from GIMP) to resize the images in a separate step.

Best wishes from Riley.
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