[Navigation] Movie animated thumbs vs. movie album art?

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This is an enhancement question/idea...

1.  Movie animated thumbs

A natively compatible movie file (ex: .divx, .m2ts) when stored on the PS3 
hard drive has an auto generated 10 second animated thumbnail when viewed 
from the videos menu.  It is a very cool feature which is both intuative 
when viewing the movie list as well is 'super-cool'.  Is this feature in 
any way possible/practical from a DLNA server like yours?

2. Movie album art

The PS3 also has a propriatory movie format used in the playstation store, 
where the movie has a specific thumbnail completely seperate to the movie 
(similar to album art).  I downloaded a 'Terminator: Sarah Cronicles' 
episode for a couple of dollars last week and noticed this and thought it 
would be a good idea for movie files created at home.  I think that a 
feature similar to this could be easily implemented by having a jpg with 
the identical name as the movie in the same directory (or some other 
sotrage mechanism).  This could also be an automated or done via a real-
time Amazon query.  An auto query of the movie title (strip special 
characters first) to Amazon will return a jpg.  Amazon has good DVD jpg 
images that would work well for album art.

Reference: Album Art Agregator (http://team.thenexusnet.com/nexus/AAA) 
link may not work and I can't find source code. :o(

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jjwatmys...@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2009 at 7:41

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1. Movie animated thumbnails are not supported on ps3 (I tried a few things, 
believe 
me :p)

2. You can already have a custom movie art with a <movie>.cover.jpg filename 
(even if 
it seems to be little buggy)

Original comment by ps3mediaserver@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2009 at 9:54

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Thank you for the quick feedback!!  :o)

What do you think about the idea of using Amazon as a real-time jpeg source for 
auto-
generating movie album art?  It could create the <movie>.cover.jpg files on the 
fly 
and the end user can sit back in amazement and by auto-generating the 
<movie>.cover.jpg you improve performance for subsequent browsing.

Original comment by jjwatmys...@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2009 at 10:11

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Another idea is if animated jpegs are supported in order to achieve an animated 
thumbnail?

Original comment by jjwatmys...@gmail.com on 10 Jan 2009 at 12:13

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Not to my knowledge

Original comment by ps3mediaserver@gmail.com on 14 Jan 2009 at 9:21

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