XYplorer Beta Club

Hi
is there a way to use for example vlc or other programs (with internal codec) to create video thumbs?

for example it doesn't create thumbs *.flv because i don't have a flv codec installed

i play my video with vlc or mplayer both have built in codec

some program does use them
thanks

ffmpeg

highend wrote:ffmpeg

hi
thanks for the answer
how can i let xyplorer work with ffmpeg?

It's a command line utility, so: by scripting.

Well FFmpeg is able to splice frames out of a video but that won't have the desired effect here. You would still need to link that specific frame as a thumbnail!

Use this, http://babelsoft.net/products.htm

Marco wrote:Use this, http://babelsoft.net/products.htm

hi
but are codecs to install

Well, the only alternative to obtain "real" XY thumbs is, assuming that your videos are in C:\Folder\

1. script FFmpeg to extract a thumb for each video as C:\Folder\<videoname>.bmp
2. move all the videos to C:\Temp\
3. let XY create thumbs for all the images in C:\Folder\
4. close XY
5. inspect the XYThumbs.txt and find what are the files for C:\Folder\
6. open the corresponding .dat2 file in a hex editor
7. replace all the occurences of (".bmp¸") and (". b m p ¸") with (".mpg¸") and (". m p g ¸")
8. delete the .bmp files in C:\Folder\and move there back the videos
9. enjoy the thumbs

PS: you better install a codec pack