[RELEASE] Quick Thumbnail Generator Tool (for Linux, Mac, and Windows)

has anyone got this to work on a mac? if so do you mind posting the steps for me ( i know basically nothing about how to run scripts and whatnot)

marklight Wrote:has anyone got this to work on a mac? if so do you mind posting the steps for me ( i know basically nothing about how to run scripts and whatnot)

I have, but it definitely requires some knowledge of command-line/shell stuff, so if you're not familiar with that, I suggest you start with a tutorial like this: http://linuxcommand.org (note that's a tutorial for the Linux shell, but it's almost identical to the BSD system that OSX uses; you can launch the terminal in OSX by going to Applications > Utilities > Terminal).

I'm not going to give you the raw commands to blindly cut-n-paste into your terminal to get this script to work, because it's dangerous to run shell commands without really knowing what they do. So I'm just going to list the general steps needed to get this working, and I'll leave it up to you to figure out exactly how to do that.

- You need to install MacPorts. Get it here: http://www.macports.org
- Using MacPorts, you need to install ffmpeg and ImageMagick.
- You also need to install MediaInfo: http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net
- Set the permissions on the "thumber" script to be executable
- Edit the "thumber.config" file and set enable_compare to "0" (the comparison functions are broken with the latest ImageMagick so you need to disable them)
- Run the "thumber" script with the path to your movies as the first argument on the command-line

That's about it!

this is awesome. Same a lot of time creating thumbs for Aeon.

I am worry about the infinite loop when running the script under Linux. As I use thumber with sabnzbd as a user script. And I am afraid thumber will continue running nonstop.

Is there a way to say only try for 10 minutes or something??

I've tried this on my Mac, but every thumb it created came out as a blank (black) .jpg. I guess I need to adjust a parameter somewhere, but not sure what. After I built everything I just executed the script in Terminal with


Any ideas what might have gone wrong?

Hello,
I can use your software in XBNE ?
XBNE : Movie DataBase Editor for XBMC

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Error : Log File

Quote:Thu Nov 26 10:43:53 2009 INFO Starting process
Thu Nov 26 10:43:53 2009 DEBUG Using image temp location: C:/Mes Projets/nfo_xbm_14/Exe/thumber-1.2/tmp
Thu Nov 26 10:43:53 2009 INFO Process directory found: D:/Godspeed.2009/
Thu Nov 26 10:43:53 2009 DEBUG MATCH: avi
Thu Nov 26 10:43:53 2009 INFO Found movie: D:/Godspeed.2009/Godspeed.2009.avi, processing thumbnails.
Thu Nov 26 10:43:53 2009 DEBUG OVERWRITING Existing thumbnails.
Thu Nov 26 10:43:53 2009 DEBUG Single file processing: D:/Godspeed.2009/Godspeed.2009.avi
Thu Nov 26 10:43:54 2009 DEBUG MEDIAINFO: 'C:/Mes' n'est pas reconnu en tant que commande interne
ou externe, un programme exécutable ou un fichier de commandes.

Thu Nov 26 10:43:54 2009 DEBUG THUMB: D:/Godspeed.2009/extra_temp/thumb1.jpg
Thu Nov 26 10:43:54 2009 DEBUG D:/Godspeed.2009/Godspeed.2009.avi -- thumb1: 0(s) 852x480 crop: pad:
Thu Nov 26 10:43:54 2009 ERROR Thumbnail 1 for D:/Godspeed.2009/Godspeed.2009.avi not created: FFMPEG ERROR: 1
Thu Nov 26 10:43:54 2009 INFO Processing complete.

So it didn't work on Win7 until putting the folder in the root of my harddrive.

Is there any way to make it so it named the thumbs by movie? I have my content organized like so:
D:\Movies\Defiance (2009)

I do not want to organize them like so:
D:\Movies\Defiance (2009)\Defiance (2009)

Anyway to make it name the thumbs by movie so I can keep my current organization scheme?


EDIT: Nevermind. Switched to folder format with Ember Media Manager.

Please forgive my restoring a very old thread (hope that's OK?) but I've just found this and found it very useful for creating my 'extrathumbs' however I'm using in Windows and cant work out hwo to configure the settings to change the timing and number of..

Some of my attempts to generate have created poor thumbs so I really want to change these settings to get different ones.

EDIT if there's a new way to do this in 2011 then I'd be happy to try that instead.

Hi, I found this great piece of software and was glad I finally would have a fully working aeon skin.. but the result is often this:

http://img218.imageshack.us/i/thumb4z.jpg/

My ubuntu 10.10 server creates them with the script using the latest versions of the dependencies..
Does someone have the same problem? Know a solution?

Thanks