Is there an easy/repeatable way to see thumbnails for videos I add to myCloud when using the myCloud app on an iPhone?
Ideally - I’d like to see the box art for ripped movies that I own.
I have put 4 movies on myCloud.
1 of them shows the boxart I want.
1 of them show a random image from the movie
2 of them don’t have a custom image.
I have tried:
Rescanning content
Rebuilding content
Embedding an image in the movie using media monkey.
Adding a jpg with the same name as the movie
Rebooting myCloud
ReInstalling myCloud ios app
The movie look fine when viewed through MediaMonkey and iTunes.
The fact that 1 of the movies shows the correct image suggests it is possible, but I haven’t been able to reproduce for other videos.
I’d be amazed if you find out how the ONE has box-art.
I’ve been reporting the lack of proper thumbnails to WD since this product was in beta – all it does is take a frame from approximately 10 seconds into the video (if I recall the time correctly).
The ffmpeg (or avconv, rather) librarythe cloud uses to do that is buggy and VERY slow.
100% of my videos have box-art as an embedded MP4 tag (atom) but they are ignored. Twonky server on the cloud uses them, though…
Agreed - Twonky server has things spot on.
I assume its a buggy ios app but its really frustrating.
Really need the thumbnails to work so my kids can choose movies etc
I’m having a lot more success with this recently and the process I use is:
Each movie has to go in a separate folder - It’s a pain but it seems to work better.
Embed the image into the movie. 300 x 300 images seem to work well and look ok in the ios app. I used mp3tag to embed the image.
In each folder - put a folder.jpg with a copy of the image.
Copy the folder onto a share on WDCloud. Wait and do nothing for 5 minutes.
Refresh in the ios app and it usually works.
If the thumbnail doesn’t work - remove the folder from the WDCloud share and change locally. If you change on the WDCloud share - it never works for me. When changing locally - slightly change the name or otherwise - WDCloud seems to not detect the change. Re-upload and it usually works.
This generally works for me and I’ve got about 10 movies with appropriate thumbnails. I wish I didn’t have to use multiple folders but its the only consistent approach I could get to work.
Sounds like a crude filename parser that sees the ‘.’, and thinks anything after is the extension. I’d usually parse from the end if looking for an extension. But I’d also not usually use a ‘.’ as a filename character, leaving it only for use as an extension separator.
