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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 20 for Windows => Topic started by: Sesam on February 07, 2015, 05:36:37 am

Title: Request: Option to save/export video thumbnail in file location
Post by: Sesam on February 07, 2015, 05:36:37 am

I would like to have an option to save/export video thumbnails generated by MC.

So for example, if I have a video file in "X:\Files\Video.mkv" there would be an option to save the thumbnail as a "X:\Files\Video.jpg".

Note: Edited thread from being a question to a request.

Title: Re: Request: Option to save/export video thumbnail in file location?
Post by: alspoll on February 09, 2015, 11:25:24 am

i have asked this question also in the past.

+1 on this request.

Title: Re: Request: Option to save/export video thumbnail in file location?
Post by: Ninouchka on February 09, 2015, 12:13:50 pm

This happens automatically when I click 'run auto-import now' to add some new mkv's.
Probably a setting in Options - General, I think.

Title: Re: Request: Option to save/export video thumbnail in file location?
Post by: alspoll on February 09, 2015, 01:40:33 pm

Quote from: Ninouchka on February 09, 2015, 12:13:50 pm

This happens automatically when I click 'run auto-import now' to add some new mkv's.
Probably a setting in Options - General, I think.

I think that is only true if it is able to find coverart on TVDB or TMDB, not if it has to generate the thumbnail.

If I am wrong, I do not see an option to save the thumbnail locally.

Title: Re: Request: Option to save/export video thumbnail in file location?
Post by: Sesam on February 09, 2015, 02:00:48 pm

Quote from: alspoll on February 09, 2015, 01:40:33 pm

I think that is only true if it is able to find coverart on TVDB or TMDB, not if it has to generate the thumbnail.

If I am wrong, I do not see an option to save the thumbnail locally.

Yea, it only works for movie/TV series coverart. But if you have a bunch of generic video files like I do (music videos etc..), there appears to be no way to make MC save thumbnails that it has generated.

Title: Re: Request: Option to save/export video thumbnail in file location
Post by: Ninouchka on February 09, 2015, 02:20:50 pm

Under options, tree and view, you can select 'create thumbnails for video' and how
much inside the video it has to create the thumbnail. Is that something usefull?

Title: Re: Request: Option to save/export video thumbnail in file location
Post by: Sesam on February 09, 2015, 03:01:35 pm

Quote from: Ninouchka on February 09, 2015, 02:20:50 pm

Under options, tree and view, you can select 'create thumbnails for video' and how
much inside the video it has to create the thumbnail. Is that something usefull?

No, because the problem is that those thumbnails are saved within the database. What I want to achieve is to have the automatically generated thumbnails saved as an easily accessible .jpg file, kinda like the "use screen grab for thumbnail" feature during playback.