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Re:Machine learning saves us $1.7M a year on document previews by catmanjan on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:45PM (#25936529)
Couldn't you just load the first frame of the video, and aren't most image formats optimized for fast thumbnailing? I take your point that there are times when it will be slower, but are you saying that you assumed ML would be faster than on the fly, or did you actually check?
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Re:Machine learning saves us $1.7M a year on document previews by ddorian43 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @03:57AM (#25939741)
> Couldn't you just load the first frame of the video

No, often it's black. You have to do scene-detection if you want meaningful previews/thumbnails, can't always go random about it.

And the original files are stored in HDD and not SSD/RAM.

Source: I don't work there.

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