seems that mencoder will sometimes fail when transcoding for a

too low number of frames. make it one second of video.

diff --git a/lib/booh/booh-lib.rb b/lib/booh/booh-lib.rb
index 5214136..81fa37c 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/booh/booh-lib.rb
+++ b/lib/booh/booh-lib.rb
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ module Booh
                         return false
                     elsif results =~ /V: import format.*unknown/ || !File.exists?(orig_image)
                         msg 2, _("* could not extract first image of video %s with transcode, will try first converting with mencoder") % orig
-                        cmd = "mencoder '#{orig}' -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -o '#{dest_dir}/#{File.basename(orig)}.avi' -frames #{frame_offset+1} -fps 25 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null"
+                        cmd = "mencoder '#{orig}' -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -o '#{dest_dir}/#{File.basename(orig)}.avi' -frames #{frame_offset+26} -fps 25 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null"
                         msg 2, cmd
                         system cmd
                         if File.exists?("#{dest_dir}/#{File.basename(orig)}.avi")