NEVER take already existing video contact sheet as movie image

[SkewedZeppelin]

Hi

When there is a video contact sheet image, Jellyfin will take this a preview.

I wish to disable that and always create a single still image.

thank you

[TheDreadPirate]

If I understand your post, you DON'T want Jellyfin to use a screen grab as the preview?

In your Library dashboard, turn off all the "Image fetchers".

   

[SkewedZeppelin]

> If I understand your post, you DON'T want Jellyfin to use a screen grab as the preview?

I don't wish that Jellyfin takes the already downloaded preview from movie. I wish that Jellyfin generates the own, not take the one that was bundled with torrent.

You understand? Sorry English not my native langugag

[JRPGod]

If Jellyfin can identify a picture that it can already use as a preview, it won't bother attempting to download one or generate one.

Your solution is to delete the image(s) that already exist(s) then re-scan.

If you have a giant library and need to remove a lot of images to achieve this, this could be achieve fairly simply with a batch/bash script, or even a terminal one-liner. Google "delete all images in subdiretories recursively bash/batch" - Bash if linux, batch if windows.

[SkewedZeppelin]

$ find /data/download/48E1 -name \*.jpg -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
$ find /data/download/48E1 -name \*.jpeg -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
$ find /data/download/48E1 -name \*.png -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
$ find /data/download/48E1 -name \*.PNG -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
$ find /data/download/48E1 -name \*.JPG -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
$ find /data/download/48E1 -name \*.JPEG -type f -exec rm -f {} \;

How-To write on 1 line?

[JRPGod]

Try

find /data/download/48E1 \( -iname \*.jpg -o -iname \*.png -o -iname \*.jpeg \) -type f -exec rm -f {} \;

or perhaps a little cleaner

find /data/download/48E1 \( -iname \*.jpg -o -iname \*.png -o -iname \*.jpeg \) -type f -delete

the -o means logical OR and iname instead of name should make it case-insensitive, so it capures jpeg and JPEG and Jpeg in one call.

I haven't tested this since I've only access to a Windows machine atm, but it should be close if not spot on.