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mplayer conversion - UGLY pictures

DISCUSSION GMane 2 participants 2 messages May 3, 2003

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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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#1 lore raw

Hi.

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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:

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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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