thumbnail capture of recorded shows

[yeled1976]

hi
i think it could be great to add an option to capture a thumbnail from the recorded show and display it in the video menu.
i think i saw it in another pvr software.....

[sub]

There is a keystroke you can use during playback to capture a thumbnail at that spot in the video. These are also shown in the recordings screen if youre in the large mode.

[agerdin]

"ctrl + t" works for me.

\\Agerdin

[systemshark]

and the keystroke is ????

[sub]

"ctrl + t" works for me.

What he said...

[yeled1976]

hey
thanks for the tip. but that means that while i am watching, i need to press it and it will capture. i though it would be cool that after it finish recording, it goes in to the file X minutes and capture a thumb pic and display it automaticly

[sub]

I did look into that, but it gives crap results. You end up with some random frame that seems to be useless the majority of times.

Maybe my expectations of what a screen capture should look like are too high

[jksmurf]

If it's a regular show, then I find a combination of Carlitos ProgramImageTool and JavaWiz's ShowImageGrabber work for a large proportion of shows (IMDB, TV....etc ).

I schedule ProgramImageTool after a show is recorded via postprocessing.bat and ShowImageGrabber once a week on the whole EPG.

k.

[fsnertz]

FYI, I frequently relied upon the screen capture feature we're discussing here when I ran a MythTV box (before I ditched it for the much better GBPVR).

The screen grab allowed me to verify that my IR channel changer was functioning properly (which it did 90% of the time, but tracking down those 10% of the programs would have been a bear had it not been for the screen grab).

Seeing the screen-grab was especially helpful in the Web interface, where you didn't want to start a stream unless you knew the content was as expected.

@jksmurf: your solution is quite industrious! Nice!

[pastro]

I could add this to skiptool and burndvdx2 if that would help.
Would I save the file as folder.jpg?