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gappie

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video thumbs
« on: March 26, 2007, 05:53:16 am »
small question.  :)
is there a way to change the way the thumbs for video are captured. at this moment half of my videos give a black thumb, because, i guess, that is how the movie starts. is there a way to say that the thumb should be taken from 1 minute after the start. or is that something you can change in the codecs used?

thanks.
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Re: video thumbs
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2007, 04:41:58 pm »
Play the video, when you see something you want to use as the thumbnail pause the video. Right click on the image and choose "Use Screen Grab As Thumbnail".   
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Re: video thumbs
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2007, 05:17:29 pm »
modelmaker's suggestion is the only option you have for now. If you meant to have a configuration option to set time so automatic thumbnailing would use a different time than what we currently use, that option is not available yet. I think eventually, that is a very indefinite "eventually"  :D, we should add such option.
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Re: video thumbs
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2007, 05:57:45 pm »
Quote from: Yaobing on March 26, 2007, 05:17:29 pm
modelmaker's suggestion is the only option you have for now. If you meant to have a configuration option to set time so automatic thumbnailing would use a different time than what we currently use, that option is not available yet. I think eventually, that is a very indefinite "eventually"  :D, we should add such option.

i knew the right click option  :P but i dont like it when i just started to watch a movie, when i have to pause and scroll with my remote through the menu. a pity that there is no mcc command.
i hoped that there was an option in the registry or something that i missed. but 'a very indefinite "eventually" ' i great. and i can stop looking.

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Re: video thumbs
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2007, 11:05:28 pm »
Does this work for wmv files? Because I just tried it, and now the original thumbnail is gone, and in its place I see a default video reel.

I added the screengrab folder in auto-import (it's the path indicated in the 'image' tag of the video file).
I have build missing thumbnails checked.
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Re: video thumbs
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2007, 05:27:09 am »
Quote from: lise on May 03, 2007, 11:05:28 pm
Does this work for wmv files? Because I just tried it, and now the original thumbnail is gone, and in its place I see a default video reel.

I added the screengrab folder in auto-import (it's the path indicated in the 'image' tag of the video file).
I have build missing thumbnails checked.

yes i guess it should work. you dont need to let the autoimport point to the screengrabs. im playing my videos now with an other player from inside mc, and i made something that when i make a screengrab with that player it writes the link hard into the image tag. mc builds the thumb then. works even with ifo files.
so be sure you use when rightclicking: use screengrab for thumbnail.
when it does not build: check what is in the imagetag from the video. there should be a link to the file in the screengrap folder.
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