Re: [Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos

2010-06-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/10/2010 12:12 PM, Venkatraman S wrote: finally HTML5 which has a cool fileupload drag-drop interface and many more. Hope you get the point. Don't understand what you are referring to? HTML5 doesn't define any such interface. It might have tags but I don't understand the reference

Re: [Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos

2010-06-10 Thread Venkatraman S
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/10/2010 12:12 PM, Venkatraman S wrote: finally HTML5 which has a cool fileupload drag-drop interface and many more. Hope you get the point. Don't understand what you are referring to? HTML5 doesn't define

Re: [Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos

2010-06-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/10/2010 12:24 PM, Venkatraman S wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 06/10/2010 12:12 PM, Venkatraman S wrote: finally HTML5 which has a cool fileupload drag-drop interface and many more. Hope you get the point. Don't

[Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos

2010-06-09 Thread Venkatraman S
Hi, Say, a user uploads a video in my website, then how can i generate a thumbnail version of the video on the go? -V- http://twitter.com/venkasub ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos

2010-06-09 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Say, a user uploads a video in my website, then how can i generate a thumbnail version of the video on the go? ImageMagick can do that. You can easily script it . netpbm tools are another option. You can take a

Re: [Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos

2010-06-09 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Say, a user uploads a video in my website, then how can i generate a thumbnail version of the video on the go?

Re: [Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos

2010-06-09 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com wrote: ImageMagick can do that. Someone suggested ffmeg [http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html ] Have you done any comparison between the two in terms of performance(speed and CRU load) ? ffmpeg is also a nice tool. It is

Re: [Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos

2010-06-09 Thread Venkatraman S
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: ffmpeg is also a nice tool. It is usually more buggy when compared to mencoder in the sense that it does not handle standards gracefully and the quality of audio is usually poor. I dunno about its

Re: [Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos

2010-06-09 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
I generally stay away from asking for help unless I need it. And do not recommend people doing it. It is good to get help once in a while from others but if we rely too much on it instead of using our intellect and our personal experience, then it hurts our confidence and ability and of course

Re: [Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos

2010-06-09 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
I hope I was clear. I meant that going to the Net for help in the form of mailing lists, forums and so on is useful only after we do our homework and are really sure that we have run out of options. -Girish On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com

Re: [Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos

2010-06-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thursday 10 June 2010 11:05:03 Girish Venkatachalam wrote: I meant that going to the Net for help in the form of mailing lists, forums and so on is useful only after we do our homework and are really sure that we have run out of options. different people have different learning processes