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CARMA users, has anyone found a fix for MPlayer's poor handling of MPEG files?

I am curious if anyone has found a fix for this. It's not a CARMA issue, it's something related to mplayer and mpeg, just so we're clear.

Anyone found a way to produce quality thumbs and smoother deployment when dealing with mpegs?

nope...same problem on our end. They really need to do somethin about that. I have to go in and manually update each one everytime.

bump for someone with a solution???

Bump for Wolrd Peace.

Oh, and a fix for this problem.

Same here, doing it manually is the only way I have found.

Major pain in the ass.

It's not actually a problem with mplayer or carma, or the mpeg files - but actually the mpeg codec itself.

I'd be surprised if something *could* be done about it, but miracles sometimes happen :D

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Originally Posted by quantum-x

It's not actually a problem with mplayer or carma, or the mpeg files - but actually the mpeg codec itself.

I'd be surprised if something *could* be done about it, but miracles sometimes happen :D

I am surprised if anyone could have figured it out, it wasn't you...(yet)...lol

But yeah, the mpeg codec is what doesn't play nice with the rest of the little pieces and parts that we all need to make shit look good.

What other formats are you pimping to offer multiple opyions for members?

mpegs don't come out good here either.

I just use the wmv thumbs for mpegs :pimp

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Originally Posted by newbreed

WMV, AVI [enc'd in divx], MPEG, QT, mp4 / m4v.

The original mpeg is such an antiquated format that I can't really understand why people would still use it - the story of compatiblity w/ macs rings true less each day - if any of your mac using members ever report issues, tell them to get a copy of .. mplayer :D
http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/

Definitely the best player for the macs.

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Originally Posted by quantum-x

As a few people have pointed out, the best way to do it is to do it manually.
For those not familiar w/ the technique, view the video gallery, find its location in the data directory (ie /5/8347fd28df832a738e/) - go to your server - carma/cms_data/[data directory] - replace the sample.jpg with the picture you'd like to be the sample .jpg.

If you're doing this retrospectively, delete the other samples (ie sample120x90jpg.jpg) to prevent these showing up again.

Oh, and all care and no responsibility taken - BE CAREFUL in those directories, and never delete .sample, .sort or .types