No thumbnails in imported 1080p mp4 file?

[srothwell]

Hi....

Been converting all my movies to 1080p 5.1 mp4 files.

Sage can easily get the data like title, year, etc out of the file, but only shows a black box as the thumbnail.

I know there are thumbnails embedded because iTunes, Windows 7, etc all see and show them just fine.

Any ideas how to fix this?

[Fuzzy]

Sage does not use the 'embedded thumbnail' in these files. It uses ffmpeg (SageTVTranscoder) to pick a frame a few seconds into the file, and stores it in the GeneratedThumbnails folder.
In fact, I think this is similar to how Windows 7 does it as well, it doesn't use anything embedded in the file, but instead uses directshow to decode out a single frame a few seconds in, and stores that in the hidden thumbs.db file in the folder in question.

[srothwell]

That's unfortunate. Windows 7 does use the embedded thumbnail, if it exists. If it doesn't exist, then it will get a frame on its own.

Well, I'm gonna go out on a VERY large limb and considering we haven't heard anything from Sage/Google in like two years I'm going to guess this won't be fixed :-)

[Fuzzy]

Most of us simply don't USE thumbnails in our views, and haven't for quite a while before google bought sage. Fanart, in my opinion, is a lot more useful, and pleasing.