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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 26 for Windows => Topic started by: tij on June 14, 2020, 11:58:40 pm
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I like to rewatch my favorite TV episodes. Most of the time I don’t recall episode number. Reading through each episode description is too long. So quickest way is to identify them through thumbnails.
If thumbs are done well, the image is taken from key scene. If show is popular enough someone would take time on tvdb or moviedb to do this. But most of the time thumbs are auto generated making identifying episode a bit tough.
Is it possible to have several thumbs for episodes and then MC cycles through them? Something like this:
1. MC loads “legacy” thumb from moviedb or tvdb
2. additional thumbs can be stored in matrix for faster loading (3x3 seems reasonable ... 9 thumbs over 27min gives image per 2.7min)
3. user stays long enough on the page, load those matrices and start cycling through them
There are tools that can easily generate those matrices in batch. MC can probably do this too.
Just a thought :)
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Example … TVDB for Ranma1/2 shows nothing … just some sunset
3x3 thumbnail auto generated by Thumbnail Me shows more … and if cycle those - becomes pretty cool :)
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It would be easy to find your favourite Episodes if you rated them five stars.
Aside from that, it might be easier for JRiver to support GIF images. The complication is, most images that you see are actually thumbnails, so MC would have to create thumbnail versions of GIFs. That is not as easy, on the scale required.
But active thumbnails would be sort of neat.