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Sounds like a nice idea to me, even better if you could link it to the DVD
burning module someone was working on a while back. Also great for people who
use myth for storing their own video content.

Paul

Quoting Simon at the Threshold <dweller@the-threshold.org>:

> Hi there,
>
> I had an idea a while back (occasionally happens!)..
>
> Basicly I was playing around with some recording movies, clipping out
> the adverts and the tail and of the movie and was trying to get the
> preview image to update to the new beginning of the movie. When it
> occurred to me that it might be cool to have a "scene selector" for a
> movie. So you could "bookmark" a series of movie points and when you
> went into the "scene selector" it would give visual menu of the
> bookmarks. Thus making it a breeze to find your way around movies.
>
> What do you think?, go on be honest I can take it.. <chuckle>
>
> Simon
>
> --
> Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it.
> -- Mark Twain
>


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Paul Woodward wrote:
> Sounds like a nice idea to me, even better if you could link it to the DVD
> burning module someone was working on a while back. Also great for people who
> use myth for storing their own video content.
>
> Paul

Indeedy I guess as bandwidth and disk capicity continue to increase
people will start to collect video more and more like audio is now. So a
intuitve index into it might be a neat/proactive idea.

--
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged
demo.
- Andy Finkel, computer guy

On Friday 30 April 2004 03:17, Simon at the Threshold wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I had an idea a while back (occasionally happens!)..
>
> Basicly I was playing around with some recording movies, clipping out
> the adverts and the tail and of the movie and was trying to get the
> preview image to update to the new beginning of the movie. When it
> occurred to me that it might be cool to have a "scene selector" for a
> movie. So you could "bookmark" a series of movie points and when you
> went into the "scene selector" it would give visual menu of the
> bookmarks. Thus making it a breeze to find your way around movies.
>
> What do you think?, go on be honest I can take it.. <chuckle>

Great idea. I can also think of a simpler, easier to implement feature
that's similar and might be an acceptable first-pass at trying to
implement this. My standalone DVD player has a 'digest' button that
will bring up a scene index for movies that aren't broken down into
chapters. It does this by grabbing a frame every X minutes (I think X
is 10; don't remember if it's configurable or not). It's great for
SVCDs that don't have chapter marks. It should be relatively easy for
Myth to do this; the code is already there to grab a preview image at X
seconds, and it can be done on the fly.

Not quite what you were going for, but certainly easier in the
short-term.

-JAC
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