From: Chris Pine <cpine@...>
Date: 2004-07-18T09:18:28+09:00
Subject: Ruby way to make a thumbnail of an AVI on Linux

Hello,

I'm looking for a way to take the first frame of an AVI and turn it into a thumbnail.  The program is running on my linux server.  I tried rmagic a while back (which I love, BTW), but it didn't work... something about some kind of bad chunk type or something, IIRC.  Does anyone know of any way to do this?

At this point, I'd accept something as un-rubyesque as:
  system(...)

:)

Thanks for any help,

Chris