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addicted

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[Solved] Video Embedded Cover in Thumbnail

How to show video embedded cover in thumbnail?

Video are muxed with mkv merge with cover.
In windows Icaros does a great job showing  those covers.
But in arch i'm unable to find a way.
I'm using nemo with ffmpegthumbnailer currently.
But can't show those coverart in mkv video

Last edited by addicted (2016-08-19 19:56:06)

x33a

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Re: [Solved] Video Embedded Cover in Thumbnail

What format is the video encoded with?

addicted

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Re: [Solved] Video Embedded Cover in Thumbnail

mkv container
I mux all movie+subtitle+cover with mkvtoolnix.
Format mostly h264 & few h265.(originally movie in mp4 container , but i mux them to mkv after adding subtitle & coverart)

Last edited by addicted (2016-08-09 07:04:31)

x33a

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Re: [Solved] Video Embedded Cover in Thumbnail

So the problem is happening with both h264 and h265? Have you tried deleting the .thumbnails directory.

ooo

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Re: [Solved] Video Embedded Cover in Thumbnail

Try if you can generate thumbnails for the files manually via command line with ffmpegthumbnailer, or if that returns an error.

You can check the command used to generate thumbnails from /usr/share/thumbnailers/ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer

addicted

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Re: [Solved] Video Embedded Cover in Thumbnail

Is this some error? i doubt that
ffmpegthumbnailer is generating thumbnail just fine.It's giving a video thumbnail.Not embedded cover art.

this is my "ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer" file.

[Thumbnailer Entry]
TryExec=ffmpegthumbnailer
Exec=ffmpegthumbnailer -i %i -o %o -s256 %s
MimeType=video/jpeg;video/mp4;video/mpeg;video/quicktime;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-wm;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-msvideo;video/x-flv;video/x-matroska;video/webm;video/mp2t;

ooo

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Re: [Solved] Video Embedded Cover in Thumbnail

I meant that you could use the command found in ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer to test generating thumbnails.

However, looks like I misunderstood that your original question was about video thumbnails, not embedded cover images.
I have no idea if there's a video thumbnailer for linux that supports embedded cover art, but I'm quite certain ffmpegthumbnailer doesn't.

At least totem media player has thumbnailer included in the package, so you could test if that works for you.

addicted

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Re: [Solved] Video Embedded Cover in Thumbnail

now embeddedcover branch of ffmpegthumbnailer started initial support of cover art in mkv archive.
https://github.com/dirkvdb/ffmpegthumbn … eddedcover
https://github.com/dirkvdb/ffmpegthumbnailer/issues/138

i tested it & it's working.(although i made some dirty installation as i'm new to linux)

Last edited by addicted (2016-08-19 20:22:57)