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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It *<b>should</b>* be able to do them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If you look in ~/perl_lib/EPrints/Plugin/Convert/Thumbnails.pm at the call_ffmpeg, it shows what it should try and do with a video.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You might need to check that your ffmpeg settings in:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>~/lib/syscfg.d/invocations.pl <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>~/lib/syscfg.d/executables.pl<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Maybe check the last one first…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>John<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Derek Lawrie<br><b>Sent:</b> 24 October 2013 09:48<br><b>To:</b> eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<br><b>Subject:</b> [EP-tech] Re: video thumbnails<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br>Does anyone know about the video thumbnails?<br>Should eprints be generating them?<br>If it should generate thumbnails then it's something I need to look at.<br><br>Thanks Derek<br><br><br>From: Derek Lawrie <<a href="mailto:d.lawrie@nua.ac.uk">d.lawrie@nua.ac.uk</a>> <br>Reply-To: Eprints <<a href="mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk">eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> <br>Date: Friday, October 18, 2013 1:05 PM<br>To: Eprints <<a href="mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk">eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> <br>Subject: [EP-tech] video thumbnails<br><br><br><br><br>Just wondering if I have to do something special to get eprints to<br>generate thumbnails for videos.<br>I definitely have ffmpeg installed (I know because it warns me that I<br>should use avconv as ffmpef is deprecated)<br>All of the standard image and file thumbnails are working, just wondering<br>if it might be taking a bit of time to do the videos?<br><br>I've been running:<br>./bin/epadmin redo_thumbnails myeprints 10 ‹verbose<br>With 10 being the eprint that I want to redo.<br>It appears to work fine appart from the two videos I have attached, I just<br>get a single line of text about them and it appears to move on to the next<br>file.<br>One of the videos is mp4 and the other a mov, I'm not sure it will do the<br>mov, but that's fine if I know a certain format Is best I can recommend<br>everyone uses it.<br><br>Also tried:<br>./bin/epadmin redo_mime_type myeprints 10 ‹verbose<br>But it doesn't seem to like that as I get:<br>Dataset must be one of 'document' or 'file'<br><br>Hope this makes sense to someone?<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Derek Lawrie<br>Web Developer and Administrator<br>T: 01603 751498 | Ext: 6498<br>w: <a href="http://www.nua.ac.uk" target="_blank">www.nua.ac.uk</a> <<a href="http://www.nua.ac.uk" target="_blank">http://www.nua.ac.uk</a>> <://www.nua.ac.uk> <br><br><br><br><br>Norwich University of the Arts, Francis House, 3-7 Redwell Street,<br>Norwich, NR2 4SN<br><br>Rated top Specialist Arts Institution in the UK (National Student Survey<br>2013) and best Specialist Institution in Art and Design (Complete<br>University Guide 2014)<br><br>Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as<br>information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late<br>or incomplete, or contain viruses.<br>Therefore, we do not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions<br>that are present in this message, or any attachment, that have arisen as a<br>result of e-mail transmission. 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