Custom Thumbnails

Yum

Sorry for the late reply.
This is in our roadmap and we will develop this in the later release (ETA is possibly the October).
Please be patient with us :)
Cheers.

rickjforbes

Hello Yum,
Is there any progress on this one at all please?
Richard

Yum

Hi Richard,

We have added this feature to SKYBOX. However, in the future we will not release new updates on Daydream.
Here is the post on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/daydream/comments/dq4voa/skybox_discontinues_support_on_daydream_and_heres/
Thanks for your support and sorry for the inconvenience.

rickjforbes

This is genuinely very disappointing, I think your app was great and I really enjoyed using it, this was a relatively minor impact, but I thought a useful feature. I am surprised you have thrown in the towel citing bad reviews, but i think that's just the nature of reviews of restaurants, hotels, apps, films. People have very little context or only think in black and white, it's good or it's bad.
I guess there is no point imploring you to bring it back as I have moved to a Pixel 4 XL and I am even more frustrated with Google for not supporting the Daydream platform on there

Yum

Well... we are still very active on Oculus's devices you know.
Get a Go/Quest and we will see you there ;)

shaun

Hi Yum,

Could you please let us know how to add a custom thumbnail to a movie please. I have tried adding a .jpg with the same name as the movie and added the image to the movies folder / picture folder / skybox folder...

The image doesn't over-write the video thumbnail (trying to add the movie poster so the gallery looks good when choosing a movie.

I have also installed a tag editor (mac: Subler) and updated the MP4 Tag artwork with the movie poster. The thumbnail of the video in mac finder directory has updated and if I drag that to my oculus quest movie folder, I can see the movie in Skybox but the artwork is still the default whatever photo of some part of the movie...

Cheers, Shaun.

Yum

shaun

Hi Shaun,

The custom thumbnail is still a temporary solution and we have already confirmed there is a bug related to this.
We will develop this feature in the next release on Quest/Go.
Please be patient with us.

Cheers.

Lorry

The thumbnail generation tends to crash the app for me on large folders - Could we also have a menu option to just disable the thumbnail generation entirely?

Yum

Lorry

What VR device do you use please?
If the app crashes, then it's possible that in the large folder you have some "invalid" video files, meaning corrupted or still-downloading videos.

GeeLeeds

Hi There,

I use skybox on the Oculus Quest, do we have a solution for this yet? If so how can this be done as there are very few options from within the app?

Thanks in advance and keep up the good work 👍

dgibb2000

Hi just checking in, are custom thumbnails supported yet for oculus quest? Specifically want to make sure they will work over a network share.

thiskiwicanfly

dgibb2000 I would absolutely love this feature as well!

thiskiwicanfly

Is there a way to update the video thumbnail images yet? I use Subler on my mac to update the custom thumbnail of my videos which I can see in Oculus Gallery and many other apps including Plex, but doesn't show in Skybox.

Is there an update for this coming soon?

thiskiwicanfly

I create and save a lot of custom artwork to my media files which show nicely inside the media selection window on many VR video player apps and Plex etc, except for Skybox. Is this feature coming for Skybox?

Gilberto

I have some cover art for my video files, basically jpg´s with the same name. I would love to se them show on oculus quest 2. I use videos over the network.

Lucy

Gilberto dgibb2000

Hi there,

If the image is less than 200KB, you should be able to view it as the preview thumbnail when watching from Oculus storage.

However, this feature is not supported with Network files now.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Best regards,
Lucy

dgibb2000

What's the good word on this feature? Seemed like it was on its way a couple years ago, but no love yet.

0110101101110111

Could somebody please clarify, are customized thumbnails supported yet and if how would I do that?
Thanks!

Lucy

0110101101110111
Hello!

If you load the video file and image file(less than 200KB) to your Quest's local storage. Then you can get custom preview when you give those files the same file name (except for the file extension).

If you are viewing Network files, then you are not able to do that.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

Best regards,
Lucy

Ted

Lucy
Hi Lucy,

I've been looking forward to have cover-art-thumbnails display function for folders or respective files over the network access as well. Maybe a folder.jpg under the folder or the same filename as the video file.

Best Regards,
Ted

Gilberto

Hi Lucy, any news on networtk thumbnails?

A way to download the files to the device would be great too, since oculus quest doesn't have a good file manager yet.

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