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From: "Riley Williams" <Riley@Williams.Name>
To: GMane <robert_schmidli@hotmail.com>, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: mplayer conversion - UGLY pictures
Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 14:29:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BKEGKPICNAKILKJKMHCAMEDICKAA.Riley@Williams.Name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b90bbb$lp9$1@main.gmane.org>

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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      reply	other threads:[~2003-05-03 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-03 12:07 mplayer conversion - UGLY pictures GMane
2003-05-03 13:29 ` Riley Williams [this message]

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