[vlc-devel] Multiple thumbnails

Francois Cartegnie fcvlcdev at free.fr
Tue Sep 29 14:31:15 CEST 2020


Le 29/09/2020 à 13:20, Pierre Ynard via vlc-devel a écrit :
>> If there are more than one thumbnail available, non different
>> resolution, which one is expected to be informed in the Art URL meta
>> field?
> 
>> non different resolution
> 
> What?
> 
> Personally I pick as art the highest resolution available, even HD (not
> much of a thumbnail then), as it comes with negligible processing cost
> compared to video. UI people may have a different opinion.
> 
> If you're talking about several different thumbnails of the same
> resolution corresponding to different timestamps, usually there's a
> single main one, displayed by default and used in HTML metadata such as
> og:image, so I pick that one.


That's different thumbnails.

The demuxer is allowed to update metadata, so Art (chapters).


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Francois Cartegnie
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