The number of sporting events ruined by seeing a screen shot from near the end of the video is frustrating.
This has been asked for over and over again, but nothing ever happens. WHY.
Cheers.
@EddieA said:
This has been asked for over and over again, but nothing ever happens. WHY.
Plex devs don’t watch sports. That’s fairly apparent, isn’t it?
Yea, this has bothered me as well. Screen shots should only be taken from the first 5 to 10 minutes so this doesn’t happen.
The background should be from 25% into the file. I don’t have many sporting events but for the few I have, the image does appear to be from the beginning.
How does one respond to that?
On the one hand you have users saying it’s a problem and on the other hand you have employees saying it isn’t.
I guess, for the time being at least, users not gifted enough to receive a non-spoiled thumb had better learn to lay down some local artwork 'cause it’s fairly clear beating this dead horse will not result in it’s getting up to plow the fields:
(August 2016)
How about posting a screenshot of the bad background showing up on a sports video. Then play the video, find the location where the same background shows up in the video, and take another screenshot (showing the timestamp/video progress).
Simple enough way to verify and illustrate the issue so Plex employees can then verify if there truly is a bug or not.
When adding the event to the media server, why not just use a blank background? Make a small white or black file, select that is the background. Problem solved.
Plex has no idea you don’t want to see an image. The idea of Plex is to show you a poster and a background. Using a blank by default, would defeat that.
Alternatively, instead of using Plex’s “Update” (now called “Scan Library Files”) which should default to the 25% location, you can update the library manually from a command line and chose not to generate an image or to generate the image from another location in the file.
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201242707-Plex-Media-Scanner-via-Command-Line
To provide a little more detail. PMS actually generates 3 images, at 25%, 50%, and 75%. It then chooses the 25% one as the default image to use. You can choose to use one of the other images. It is possible that if there is a problem generating the image at 25%, it will then use the one at 50%, or if that failed too, then the 75% one.
Here is an example I have from a workout video that has the progress bar in the video so you can see it is indeed taking the image from 3 different times and the earliest one was used.
@“Rezin Iscariot” said:
When adding the event to the media server, why not just use a blank background? Make a small white or black file, select that is the background. Problem solved.
Except in order to select the new background, you have to click on the “pencil” on the image, which means you’ve already seen the background.
@MovieFan.Plex said:
Plex has no idea you don’t want to see an image. The idea of Plex is to show you a poster and a background. Using a blank by default, would defeat that.
Not by default. It should be selectable, by library, so that you add all your sports videos to one that has this selection.
@MovieFan.Plex said:
Alternatively, instead of using Plex’s “Update” (now called “Scan Library Files”) which should default to the 25% location, you can update the library manually from a command line and chose not to generate an image or to generate the image from another location in the file.https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201242707-Plex-Media-Scanner-via-Command-Line
I don’t see any option for poster or background. Or are they mis-named as thumbnail and fan-art.
@MovieFan.Plex said:
To provide a little more detail. PMS actually generates 3 images, at 25%, 50%, and 75%. It then chooses the 25% one as the default image to use. You can choose to use one of the other images. It is possible that if there is a problem generating the image at 25%, it will then use the one at 50%, or if that failed too, then the 75% one.
In the vast majority of the videos I have uploaded, it’s always the 75% image that is shown by default. If I try to edit the poster/background, I can see the 25% and 50% images, but it’s the 75% that’s been chosen. But even at 25%, it can still give away too much information.
Cheers.
Every - Single - Time I add something that doesn’t come along with it’s unique hosted thumbnail the default thumb comes from about 50%:
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1435216/#Comment_1435216
I checked that clip I use for testing and that thumb comes from 50% territory.
The ‘default’ thumb should come from 5% territory. Period. Good luck getting that implemented. ‘Good Ideas’ are often ignored in the Plexiverse.
