Okay, I'm following up on my followup... ^_^
When last we left me, I was trying to get thumbnails to work. I had sorted a
problem with distutils.py in /utils causing videothumb.py to wreck. Once that
was solved, it looked like thumbnails were being created (even automatically
for newly recorded shows) but they were not appearing when the show was
highlighted. This was in the TV program menu, using recordings_manager.py in
place of view_recordings.py.
Just to rule out another variable, I switched from the 'rain' skin to the
default 'blurr' skin, but same thing: Only the default picture was displayed in
place of any thumbnail that should have appeared.
On a whim today, I went to my Movie section and tried making a thumbnail of a
video I have there. Not only did it work, the thumbnail showed up too! Made a
few thumbnails for some shows stored on a CD-ROM and they displayed fine
(hooray for storing data about removable discs in the VFS).
This leads me to a suspicion I've had for the last few days: That
recordings_manager isn't built to handle/display thumbnail images. I haven't
had a chance to switch back to view_recordings to confirm this, but now I know
the thumbnail creation and display process works like it should.
I'm going to poke at recordings_manager (because I believe it's superior to the
basic view_recordings when it comes to categorization and organization) but all
the Python I know I've learned sifting through and experimenting with Freevo.
If anyone else knows exactly what to do and/or how to do it, I'm sure you could
get the job done much faster than I. A focused laser as opposed to a focused
flashlight. ^_^
In the meantime, I'll poke at it because it's fun, and I'm learning Python and
about Freevo too.
Cheers!
James
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