From: Tim Hunter <cyclists@...>
Date: 2004-07-18T23:47:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby way to make a thumbnail of an AVI on Linux

Chris Pine wrote:

> 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
>
Thanks for the compliment!

You might try RMagick again and a newer version of ImageMagick. It's up to
6.0.3-3 now, I think. There's always lots of fixes in each new release. If
you still have a problem, let me know. If I can't make it work I'll pass it
on to John Christy, the IM lead developer.