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[Loxuz]

Hi,

First I'd like to say I just started using MC and every day I find something new I love about it.

So to the problem. Is there a way to show the folder.jpg in video. Like it is inmusic. Cause it would be realy nice to have a poster of the movie instead og the first (often black) frame of a movie.

[Alex B]

Right-click the video file (or one of the selected files) > Image > Add From File...

[Loxuz]

Great!

My next question is then... Can this be automated?
With a 50+ movies or so this can take a while?

[Alex B]

Have you tried the Quick Find In File/Cover Art Directory option? Though, I think it didn't work with video files when I tried it a long time ago.

I guess you could make a playlist, export it in MPL format, mass replace a selected part of the text that exists in all items with a string that includes the selected part and the Image File line (with e.g. Word), remove the video files from the library and import the MPL file.

I would just do it manually. Afterall, 50 files is not very much. It would probably take a couple of minutes to do them all. I suppose it takes much longer to gather the cover art files.

[Loxuz]

True,

it did take longer to gather all the CoverArt. Butt now I have all my movies in seperate folders with a folder.jpg, so it wold have been alot easier for me to have a singel operation like in the music folders. Then I could also just have a folder.jpg for one entire series

[Alex B]

You can select more than one file at the same time and add the same cover art image to all of them. Just right-click one of the selected files.

If that is not what you mean you could experiment with the MPL export/edit/import system. BTW, did you try the Quick Find In File/Cover Art Directory option?

[Loxuz]

It's sort of what I mean... but I feel it wold be easyer to just have one folder.jpg and that would be all to it. Even normal explorer does this. I'll give the export/edit/import system a try and see how that works.

I tried the Quick Find In File/Cover Art Directory, it diden't work with videos.

[Alex B]

Here is an example. It has two video files. The first video file has a linked cover art image.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<MPL Version="2.0">
<Item>
<Field Name="Filename">Y:\Anime\DNAngel\DNAngel - 01.avi</Field>
<Field Name="Artist">Anime</Field>
<Field Name="Album">DNAngel</Field>
<Field Name="Name">DNAngel - 01</Field>
<Field Name="File Type">avi</Field>
<Field Name="Bitrate">1347</Field>
<Field Name="Image File">Folder.jpg</Field>
<Field Name="Media Type">Video</Field>
<Field Name="Last Played">1069459503</Field>
<Field Name="File Size">239112192</Field>
<Field Name="Duration">1419</Field>
<Field Name="Number Plays">2</Field>
<Field Name="Track #">1</Field>
<Field Name="Date Created">1088180044</Field>
<Field Name="Date Modified">1068962397</Field>
<Field Name="Date Imported">1069454842</Field>
<Field Name="Width">640</Field>
<Field Name="Height">480</Field>
<Field Name="Complete Album">1</Field>
<Field Name="Thumbnail Info">5004</Field>
<Field Name="Include">V</Field>
</Item>
<Item>
<Field Name="Filename">Y:\Prelarch\DuckandC1951.avi</Field>
<Field Name="Album">30.12.2000</Field>
<Field Name="Name">DuckandC1951</Field>
<Field Name="File Type">avi</Field>
<Field Name="Bitrate">447</Field>
<Field Name="Media Type">Video</Field>
<Field Name="File Size">31075542</Field>
<Field Name="Duration">555</Field>
<Field Name="Date Created">1088179480</Field>
<Field Name="Date Modified">1063896879</Field>
<Field Name="Date Imported">1069622032</Field>
<Field Name="Width">320</Field>
<Field Name="Height">240</Field>
<Field Name="Complete Album">1</Field>
<Field Name="Thumbnail Info">89601</Field>
<Field Name="Include">V</Field>
</Item>
</MPL>

With MS Word you would replace:

^p<Field Name="Media Type">Video</Field>

with:

^p<Field Name="Image File">Folder.jpg</Field>^p<Field Name="Media Type">Video</Field>


^p = new paragraph (enter). You may want to make the hidden formatting marks visible in the Word options.