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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Chris Shaw on April 15, 2004, 06:07:58 pm

Title: REQUEST: Way to generate all thumbnails
Post by: Chris Shaw on April 15, 2004, 06:07:58 pm

I have a lot of AVI and MPG's and I've just upgraded to 10.0. As I navigate around the place, it takes ages to generate thumbnails from them. It then has to generate them again when I go into Theatre View. A process I could run overnight that would generate all thumbnails for Mega-Me and Theatre View would be great.

Don't know if it counts as a bug, but any subtitled AVI (using DirectVobSub) doesn't get a thumbnail.

Title: Re:REQUEST: Way to generate all thumbnails
Post by: JimH on April 15, 2004, 06:54:23 pm

Are they on a local drive or a network drive?

Title: Re:REQUEST: Way to generate all thumbnails
Post by: Chris Shaw on April 15, 2004, 06:58:44 pm

They are on a local drive, but accessed via a UNC path to make the DB more portable. I'm not saying it's really slow (about 1 second each) but there are lots to do and it only does them on demand. At the moment, I'm just hitting Pg-Dn everytime it finishes a screenfull, and I'll have to do it all over again in Theatre Mode.

Title: Re:REQUEST: Way to generate all thumbnails
Post by: JimH on April 15, 2004, 07:04:13 pm

Can you try it as a normal local drive?  You could set up a second library and import again to test.

Title: Re:REQUEST: Way to generate all thumbnails
Post by: Chris Shaw on April 15, 2004, 07:46:25 pm

Seems about the same, subjectively. About 1 second each. If I do one batch in Mega-me then in Theatre View, it's a bit quicker, but that's presumably because they're still in the disk cache. I don't know if it makes any difference, but it's an external firewire drive.

DirectVobSub'ed AVI's still aren't getting thumbnails either.