Ticket #45 (new Enhancement)

Opened 10 months ago

Last modified 8 months ago

Screen Grabs - 2 points

Reported by: anonymous Assigned to:
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Cover Art Version: 1.0b4.1
Keywords: Cc:

Description

1 - when i run the import TV data...sapphire does the screen grabs for use with preview art. BUT...many of my shows are not showing any art....it doesnt grab anything but a few episodes, even though they are same file, container, etc as the other files that did work.

2 - is there any way to auto grab the season art and show art? for example....season 1 art would pick a random screen grab from season 1 episodes. And Show art would grab a random screen grab from any episode.

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12/15/07 21:03:32 changed by gbooker

1 - Sapphire grabs its data from http://www.tvrage.com If there is no screenshot for a particular ep there, then there is nothing to grab. It doesn't examine the file itself to get a screencap.

2 - That could be an interesting idea.

12/16/07 00:18:16 changed by pmerrill

  • owner changed.
  • component changed from Metadata - TV Show to Cover Art.

(follow-up: ↓ 4 ) 12/16/07 23:54:03 changed by anonymous

is there any way to code it so the screen grab is from a random time frame from within the episode? this way you dont need to rely on the community for every screen shot.

I think it should be saved as a jpeg or something when doing the import, this way its faster when browsing, but it might be better in long run to grab artwork this way for individual episodes.

and then, we can go to TV rage for Season artwork, and Show title artwork.

(in reply to: ↑ 3 ) 12/17/07 08:16:38 changed by gbooker

Replying to anonymous:

is there any way to code it so the screen grab is from a random time frame from within the episode? this way you dont need to rely on the community for every screen shot.

Yeah, [QTMovie posterImage] and [QTMovie frameImageAtTime] will do the trick.

and then, we can go to TV rage for Season artwork, and Show title artwork.

Not all shows have show title artwork, and I have never seen season artwork (where are those?). Also, the show artwork tends to be somewhat low quality, but I guess it is better than nothing.

(follow-up: ↓ 6 ) 12/18/07 02:47:18 changed by anonymous

sorry...i dont know how to do the [QTMovie posterImage]. Is there a way to do this via applescript? then i can just drop all my videos on the applescript and have it throw out some jpegs into the collection art folder.

as for the season art...i was referring to the DVD covers, as they usually are sold in complete seasons. for show art...each show usually has a title screen...which obviously peple would need to do on their own or make a database for.

(in reply to: ↑ 5 ) 12/18/07 08:54:25 changed by gbooker

Replying to anonymous:

sorry...i dont know how to do the [QTMovie posterImage].

That was a developer note on a method to implement it

as for the season art...i was referring to the DVD covers, as they usually are sold in complete seasons.

Yuck; Those are usually ugly and destroyed by text overlays.

12/21/07 02:02:58 changed by snown

Although some DVD art is ugly, I agree that it would be nice to see something other than color bars all the time when browsing TV shows. And some cover art is really not that bad.

Also IMPA's TV section (given far from complete) has some very nice Promotional posters for TV shows which may do for series cover art.

12/24/07 20:29:00 changed by gbooker

  • type changed from Defect to Enhancement.

This is not a defect; corrected type

02/15/08 05:57:56 changed by anonymous

i thought about this more....and maybe you can add a function to this so that Sapphire will check tvrage.com for the artwork for an episode first, but if there is no artwork for the given episode then it will grab a random time frame from the file and saves as .jpg in the coverart folder.

for seasons, you can do a random image from one of the episodes within that season.

for show you can do a random image from one of the season images within that show, or do like front row and do a flowing slideshow effect of all the season images.

Add/Change #45 (Screen Grabs - 2 points)