Is it possible to alter the thumbnails of the videos on the Tab?
my 3 year old uses it a lot (so obviously he can't read) and I have quite a few videos on there, I would like to alter the thumbnails to another part of the video like I do with the ones for his iPod (I'm trying to ween him of the iPod and onto the Tab, he already uses my Desire more than the iPod)
can anyone help with this?
for example he has 9 videos on there that are spin-offs to the Disney film "Cars" and they all start the same so the thumbnails for them all are the same and there's no filename their either (he can recognise numbers but there's nothing for him to see)
Any help with where the thumbnails are stored and how I can change them?
thanks
I have my each video stored in a folder with a thumbnail image of the movie poster. When I go to my gallery it shows the thumbnails
hpric said:
I have my each video stored in a folder with a thumbnail image of the movie poster. When I go to my gallery it shows the thumbnails
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What do you name the thumbnails?
Does it show them in the "video" app?
Sorry, this must be a fairly lame novice question.
I have rooted my transformer, upgraded to 3.1 and use cifsmanager to mount all my media on my linux file server. I thought that was the hard part, but it was fun&easy, thanks to XDA-developers.
But when it comes to just figuring out how to comfortably view my pictures... well, that seems more difficult.
a) I can not figure out i can get googles built-in gallery app to find/index my picture media on my mounted file system. Is that possible at all ?
b) When i use any of the file managers like Astro or Estrong, i can view pictures with their built-in picture viewers, but they are lame because they do not support multitouch to zoom in&out of the picture and have no nice animation moving between pictures. They also seem to be somewhat slower.
c) When i use Gallery from any File manager, it will only show a single picture, but not allow to view all pictures in the directory. I wonder/fear, if Gallery can display all pictures in a directory at all, or whether it first needs to have every directory be indexed through the "i have no clue how it works" method.
d) So i copied a bunch of my photos over to the transformers SD to see how gallery treats them then, and it seems that gallery has no concept of hierarchies whatsoever. My whole nice picture tree (year/{topic|month}{/subtopic}) got totally flattened out into a ridiculous long list of albums.
So, any chance to get best of both worlds ? Eg: Use Gallery to view an individual folder (with the nice thumbnails from gallery, snappy flipping between pictures and mult-touch zoom) AND to use a file manager to navigate between folders. And of course the folders are network mounted or local ?
Thanks
JustPictures is your answer, free from the market.
Use stock gallery for fancily watching your local albums if you need, use justpictures to open a pic from within file manager.
Btw, I always used Es file manager on the phone, but switched to FileManager HD on the tablet.
Thanks!
JustPictures looks good, thanks a lot for the pointer.
I still would like to understand though how android determines the "local pictures" directories and if i have a way to change them or add some other directory to that list.
JustPictures for example has a very nice browsing through the android known picture directories, which is much nicer than using any file manager - because it has thumbnails and so on. But of course that only works for those magical "local directories".
In JustPictures under Add Account you can add extra Local 'accounts' and specify a specific directory you want to include. I think this solves your problem if I understand you correctly.
BTW is there any way to achieve what you did without rooting the Transformer? I want to look at pictures on my linux box from it, but could not find a decent solution.
I can share the photos in quite a few ways (webdav, ftp, dlna/upnp, samba/smb/cifs), but could not find a decent picture viewer to handle that. The thing that came the closest is to share with dlna and use a dlna viewer like MyNet (that comes with the Transformer). But all the DLNA viewers seem to be optimized for videos and music. With pictures they don't have basic features like caching the next picture for faster viewing.
JustPictures seems to only support cloud or local locations. But LAN options are not present.
Ok, so here's a more detailed answer to both zsori and te36:
Ive just mounted my Linux' homeserver Samba share (Cifsmanager - settings - load at startup, load via insmod, create share, mount).
Then, I used FileManager HD to navigate into it (/mnt/sdcard/share in my case), then navigated to one of the dirs, switched to grid view to see the thumbnails, and tapped one of the pics. (Ihave JustPictures opening pics by default)
JustPictures opened the pic; then i pressed Back, which brought me to JustPictures folder view, essentially treating the mounted dir as local.
I think thats what both of you wanted. Clearly , you need root to use Cifsmanager, but these days rooting is a matter of seconds ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125714 ).
I have one more concern regarding cifs besides root: In my experience linux does not handle it too nicely when a mounted network filesystem dissapears. It can cause general lag in the system and even unmounting the (not available) filesystem might block for some time.
Since I had these issues I have usually avoided to mount network file systems and tried to access them with user space solutions (like the integrated cifs support in the KDE file manager).
Does CifsManager try to solve these issues? Do you have any experience? Or could you test mounting the cifs shares and then making the shares unavailable (eg. by shutting down the PC)?
I would like to avoid rooting just to find out that this is not the ideal solution for me...
I'm also interested in a picture viewer that can access smb share without rooting my transformer.
i'm now using file manager hd and es file explorer to view shared photos but both aren't very efficient in photo managing.
I didn't have the chance to test it with SMB shares, but QuickPic is the best gallery alternative.
Device: Samsung Galaxy S4
Model: GT-I9505
Android Version: 5.0.1
Running: Official
Essentially what happened was that I was taking videos when I went to see some bands. These videos were varying between 3 to 7 minutes long and I am sure I stopped filming as I kept the app open in between songs. One video had managed to save correctly and it was 5:58 minutes at 732MB.
I had gotten the impression that the videos just didn't save correctly as the LOST.DIR folder on my SD got ~3GB larger that night and there are some files that are around the size that the videos would've been (~400MB to ~1000MB). If these are the actual videos, is it possible for me to recover the videos from these files or are they not in a recoverable state?
I really hope I can at least get some light shed on this situation.
(I would've added pictures to show some of the files but this is my first post and I can't share links)
get a half decent file browser and rename them to match the file extension of the working video. you might need to move them or delete the .nomedia file before they'll show up in your gallery
3mel said:
get a half decent file browser and rename them to match the file extension of the working video. you might need to move them or delete the .nomedia file before they'll show up in your gallery
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I've renamed some of the larger files with the .mp4 extension in LOST.DIR and I tried opening them (I did this with ES File Explorer) and I couldn't open them. I had the messages "Sorry, this video can't be played" and "File has incorrect data"
I just finished converting Game of Thrones with handbrake and added the episodes to my S7.
Although I named all the files in correct order, it shows a different file name when added to the phone. As if they have a tag added. How do I change this?
Also, most thumbnails are just black - I assume it takes the first frame by default. Is it possible to add my own thumbnail?
I did rotate my photo for 90° in the photo album and save, then the file size become BIGGER than the original one, why will become like this?
Since you didn't mention how bigger the file was, one can only speculate, but did you use lossless rotation?
If yes, the file could grow larger because a) additional metadata added to exif (pic info) b) could be adding thumbnail, c) even lossless rotation requires some of the data to be re-encoded and therefore change file size.
If it wasn't lossless rotation, not only the whole picture was re-encoded and file size changed , but also some of fine detail was lost during compression.
pete4k said:
Since you didn't mention how bigger the file was, one can only speculate, but did you use lossless rotation?
If yes, the file could grow larger because a) additional metadata added to exif (pic info) b) could be adding thumbnail, c) even lossless rotation requires some of the data to be re-encoded and therefore change file size.
If it wasn't lossless rotation, not only the whole picture was re-encoded and file size changed , but also some of fine detail was lost during compression.
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Not sure is it lossless rotation. I just did it in the media album app which is original in s8, use : Edit → Transform → Rotate, then the file size from 3.13MB become 4.60MB