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*** Slideshow Plugin Modification Job Request
If anyone wants to do this, please email me at scorpioncapital@shaw.ca

Requires fast turnaround thanks.

Description:

Integrate Video uploading and thumbing to the Slideshow plugin.

Details:

1. Modify image1 field to autodetect .avi or .jpg extension on upload.

2. If .avi, call linux transcode to grab the (n)th frame (hardcoded)

transcode is a simple unix utility that grabs avi frames.
there is a perl api for transcode at http://www.lpm.univ-montp2.fr:7082/~domi/vob2divx/
BUT it does not contain the call to grab an image - easy to write.

May need to convert image from .ppm to .jpg. Should be easy to do.

There is also a whole bunch of other utilities you can use, whoever does this should just select some good solution for grabbing a frame froma Divx compressed AVI under Linux/Unix.

http://www.exploits.org/v4l/

3. Populate the thumb fields of the plugin with the same size variations of the source image grabbed in step #2 above (i.e. this part just use the build-in thumbing functions).

Thanks