Remove course thumbnails and the ffmpeg dependency

Course cards go back to the colour-block art that previously sat under the
captured frame, so the UI is unchanged apart from losing the photo.

- Drop thumb.php, generateThumbnails(), captureThumbnail() and
  ensureThumbnailColumns(), plus the first-video tracking the scanner only
  kept to pick a frame source.
- Drop the ffprobe fallback in probeDuration(); the pure-PHP mvhd parse is
  now the only scan-time probe, with the player's report on first play as
  the remaining fallback.
- Drop THUMBNAILS_DIR/THUMBNAIL_SEEK_PERCENT from config, the
  thumbnail_* columns from schema.sql, the thumbnail counters from scan
  output, .thumb img from the stylesheet, and the matching README parts.

Existing databases keep two now-unused folders.thumbnail_* columns; they
are inert and can be dropped by hand if wanted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014oyi9DMdhALrGz989MNNZJ
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Harwinder Sekhon
2026-07-27 14:06:06 -04:00
parent 31b01a1a18
commit ff9a351091
9 changed files with 31 additions and 275 deletions
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@@ -18,10 +18,3 @@ define('COMPLETE_THRESHOLD', 0.95);
// Allow new users to self-register from the login page.
define('ALLOW_REGISTRATION', true);
// Where generated course thumbnails are cached. Must be writable by the PHP
// process; created automatically on first scan if missing.
define('THUMBNAILS_DIR', __DIR__ . '/cache/thumbnails');
// Capture each course's thumbnail this far into its first video (0.0-1.0).
define('THUMBNAIL_SEEK_PERCENT', 0.4);