Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

My Movie and TV collection on my media server is starting to look good, but heaps of the movies and programs start with a black frame. By default, this is the Poster Frame when the movie is previewed on a computer.

Quicktime Pro has the ability to set the Poster Frame, but cannot just add this information to the file, it must re-save the file. With even the smallest of my files (The Simpsons episodes), these files are in excess of 100Mb, which takes a long time to re-save. Particularly over a network, and with the NSLU2 using a USB Drive.

I want a way of just telling the movie file that it needs to use a particular frame as it’s Poster Frame, and not have to go through the whole rigamarole of re-encoding the movie.

I don’t mind if it runs on Win32 or MacOS, as long as it does the job quickly and easily. Even if it’s a CLI program that requires the frame number: I’m sure I could come up with a way to find that out…

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For the uninitiated, Tripod are an Australian 3-piece band who compose and perform ‘comedy’ songs. Probably their biggest claim to fame is the Tripod Song In An Hour segment they used to do on Breakfast with Adam & Wil on Triple J. The hosts used to come up with a series of (unrelated) topics that the boys from Tripod then had to make a song about in one hour, and perform it at the end. The always managed to pull through and usually the songs were quite amusing.
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