How do I keep a video from showing up in the thumbnails?
When I select :
Media Player/Videos
I see thumbnails of all of the video content on my N900. There are some I do NOT want to show everyone I show the phone to.
If I change the listing from Video-Date to Video-Category, I lose the thumbnails, but the title is still in the listing.
Thanks
This is not the solution you're looking for, but:
There's an ongoing more general discussion about how to protect your personal content when you hand the device to someone else.
See the proposed solutions here: http://maemo.org/community/brainstor...oaning_device/
You might want to vote for one of the solutions or add a new one.
I am guessing there will be an App for that very soon.. anybody remember the Safe application on s60? got me out of trouble many times with my past GF... was a win win too
GF: "why have you pssword protected whats in the safe? what are you trying to hide"
Me: "its not good your yours eyes, i am protecting you from going blind"
back and forth for 30 minutes, argument insues make up sex followes later that night.
For completeness, another possibility is mentioned in this thread by AnimS. Using the tracker.cfg file to specify folders that you don't want indexed/tracked/thumbnailed.
For completeness, another possibility is mentioned in this thread by AnimS. Using the tracker.cfg file to specify folders that you don't want indexed/tracked/thumbnailed.
Seems the way to go... if it works, which I haven't tried. ;)
EDIT:
Try to play with this section... looks promising:
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[Watches]
# List of directory roots to index and watch (separator=;)
WatchDirectoryRoots=$HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/;$HOME/MyDocs/.documents/;$HOME/MyDocs/.videos/;$HOME/MyDocs/.images/;$HOME/MyDocs/.camera/;
# List of directory roots to index but NOT watch (separator=;)
CrawlDirectory=
# List of directory roots NOT to index and NOT to watch (separator=;)
NoWatchDirectory=$HOME/MyDocs/core-dumps/;$HOME/MyDocs/cities/;$HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/Ringtones/;$HOME/MyDocs/tmp/;/media/mmc1/tmp/;/media/mmc1/cities/;
# Set to false to completely disable any watching
EnableWatching=true
Look how they include $HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/ but exclude $HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/Ringtones/
You could do the same, have $HOME/MyDocs/.videos/ in the "watch"-list (where it is now), create a new folder "private" in there and then include $HOME/MyDocs/.videos/private to the NoWatchDirectory= line.
Seems the way to go... if it works, which I haven't tried.
EDIT:
Try to play with this section... looks promising:
Look how they include $HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/ but exclude $HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/Ringtones/
You could do the same, have $HOME/MyDocs/.videos/ in the "watch"-list (where it is now), create a new folder "private" in there and then include $HOME/MyDocs/.videos/private to the NoWatchDirectory= line.
This tip is good and working one. Allthough you need to clear up the tracker-database after doing this or MediaPlayer will show your thumbnails even the video doesn't exists on the original folder anymore (at least I had to do that to get thumbnails removed from media player).
or ask someone nicely to write a plugin