thumbnail image of video for albums

Hi,

Please forgive me if this has been posted but I can't seem to find it anywhere.  When I load a video in the album it shows a black square instead of maybe a clip of what the video is.  Can anyone tell me how to take a photo snapshot of the video to show instead of the black square?

I know you use to could take a snapshot in the older versions of dolphin but i can't seem to figure it out in the latest version.

Thanks in advance for your help.

You can change how many seconds into the video that will be used for the thumbnail. I'm not sure if this still works, but you can give it a try: http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/topic/Flash-Video-Quality-Mod-.htm#60166.

Line 259

/flash/modules/video/inc/functions.inc.php

function grabImages($sInputFile, $sOutputFile, $iSecond = 0, $bForse = false)

chang to

function grabImages($sInputFile, $sOutputFile, $iSecond = 20, $bForse = false)

(taken from post)Flash-Video-Quality-Mod-.htm#60166

Newton,

That was very helpful! Worked great. Thank you.

Your welcome, thanks to the original poster!> Kartowm

Is there a way to change this to a percentage value instead of a second value?

Good one SkyForum, although for me I don't see a video being posted that is of any value if it is less than 10 seconds.. even comment videos are longer than that.

Let us know what you come up with too.

YouTube does it this way. All the videos uploaded there use the center frame. It seems to me the only way to get the center frame is to use 50%. I wouldn;t imagine it would count frames, then divide by 2 to decide what one to use.

It's on line 276 in 7.03, you might also want to change

Line 290: function getGrabImageTmpl($sInputFile, $sOutputFile, $sSize = "", $iSecond = 0)

Thank you SkyForum, it is on that line.. I also changed line 290.

Seems weird that changing line 259 to 10 seconds has been working fine for two days, now I wonder what line 290 changes...?

EDIT: line 290 changed makes the thumbnail look weird, hard to explain. When uploading video normally(without modification to this file), the thumbnail is presented as normal but when processed you get blank thumbnail, changing line 276 to ten seconds give me a thumbnail ten seconds into video, changing line 290 to ten seconds makes the preview thumbnail strange looking... I'm confused now

As you can see both are changed and the player still starts @ 0