[KPhotoAlbum] Video thumbnail check every start of program

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

Did you see if these were the files it re-generated each time? If so, could 
you let me have one of the file names so I can give it a try, please.

KPHotoAlbum should pick up that you moved the files, and update the index.xml 
file itself, but of course it doesn't hurt making a copy of the index.xml file 
before doing the change :-)

Cheers

On Tuesday 17 September 2013 01:02:03 Angel Lopez wrote:
> Hello,
> One more thing. I think I'm narrowing the problem...
> Some directory names have strange characters, probably because they were
> created 9 years ago (in spain, so spanish characters) without UTF-8, then
> copied to a CDROM and then back to the PC some time later (still without UTF
> -8).
> 
> I have started kphotoalbum redirecting the errors to file, so I could
> discover this.
> 
> I will rename the offending directories and files. (but, what should I do
> with the database after do it?)
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ______________________________
> ----------- Angel ------------
> 
> 
> 
> 2013/9/16 Angel Lopez <anglopm at gmail.com>
> 
> > Thanks for the suggestions.
> > I'm ussing mplayer2 installed, as suggested by kphotoalbum at first start.
> > Version is:  2.0-726.
> > The command suggested by Johannes returns the video length in minutes.
> > I've checked again and it seems that the image thumbnails generated in the
> > .videoThumbnails directory are actually overwritten every time.
> > Thanks for your help.
> > 
> > Regards.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ______________________________
> > ----------- Angel ------------
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 2013/9/16 Jesper K. Pedersen <blackie at kde.org>
> > 
> > If you click on the blinking led, it will show what it actually is doing.
> > 
> >> Once
> >> you know which files it wishes to revisit, check with mplayer as Johannes
> >> suggesed.
> >> 
> >> Cheers
> >> 
> >> On Sunday 15 September 2013 22:47:47 Johannes Zarl wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> > 
> >> > On Friday 13 September 2013 10:11:21 Angel Lopez wrote:
> >> > > But every time I start kphotoalbum it has the same pending jobs:
> >> > > Checking video length (for every video in the database).
> >> > > Generate thumbnail (for every video in the database).
> >> > > 
> >> > > I let it finish (almost one hour). but next time it is the same...
> >> > > 
> >> > > I have checked the .videothumbnails folder and hast a number of files
> >> 
> >> that
> >> 
> >> > > is 10 times the number of movies in the database. I suppose this is
> >> 
> >> for
> >> 
> >> > > the
> >> > > sequence in thumbnail preview... So, all seams generated, but it
> >> > > start
> >> > > looking for the info again.
> >> > > 
> >> > > One note, the creation date for the video thumbnails on hard disk is
> >> 
> >> the
> >> 
> >> > > date for the first generation, so nothing is been written in the
> >> > > subsequent
> >> > > works.
> >> > > 
> >> > > 
> >> > > Any idea?
> >> > 
> >> > My first thought would be to check your mplayer version. Mplayer 1 has
> >> > problems with some videos and can't get the correct video length of
> >> 
> >> those.
> >> 
> >> > It's kind of strange though, that all your videos are affected.
> >> > 
> >> > I assume, mplayer has no problems actually playing those video files?
> >> > 
> >> > Can mplayer identify the image length when you do it manually?
> >> > mplayer -identify -frames 0 -vc null -vo null -ao null "$VIDEOFILE"
> >> |
> >> |grep
> >> |
> >> > ID_LENGTH
> >> > 
> >> >   Johannes
> >> > 
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> >> 
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Having trouble finding a given image in your collection containing
thousands of images?

http://www.kphotoalbum.org might be the answer.