2007-11-15, 07:40
Okay, I just found out about one of these and the other one I wrote. If you have seen them before, then don't complain. They are new to me.
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Creating XBMC Thumbnails Automatically
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I wanted to have thumbnails for all my television episodes. (All my episodes are on my windows PC, sheared over my network.) Instead of downloading each file individually, I found a tip on the XBMC wiki page.
http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/inde...thumbnails
1. Download this file:
http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/ffmpeg...ev10908.7z
2. Extract that file (Including the DLL) into your \\Windows\System32 folder.
3. Open up a command prompt window in the root folder of your television shows and then type this command
for /r %i in (*.avi) do ffmpeg -i "%i" -f mjpeg -t 0.001 -ss 5 -y "%~di%~pi%~ni.tbn"
You can replace the (*.avi) with different file formats, including mp4, divx, rmvb, ogm and rm.
This will open up your episodes, skip 5 seconds in, take a screen shot, rename it to *.tbn and then go to the next file. It will also do any sub folder.
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Seeing *.tbn files in Windows Explorer
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I bet that you know that you can go into a folder in Windows XP, switch to Thumbnail view, and be presented with an icon of the first screen from a movie. It works for images as well. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for *.tbn files. Until now, that is.
1. Create a new text document.
2. Paste the following block of text into it.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.tbn\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{3F30C968-480A-4C6C-862D-EFC0897BB84B}"
3. Rename the file so that the extension is .reg (I named mine "tbn thumbnails.reg")
4. Double-click the file and you are all set. Windows XP will now see TBN thumbnails as images and create a windows thumbnail for them. You can see them in your folders on your computer.
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Creating XBMC Thumbnails Automatically
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I wanted to have thumbnails for all my television episodes. (All my episodes are on my windows PC, sheared over my network.) Instead of downloading each file individually, I found a tip on the XBMC wiki page.
http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/inde...thumbnails
1. Download this file:
http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/ffmpeg...ev10908.7z
2. Extract that file (Including the DLL) into your \\Windows\System32 folder.
3. Open up a command prompt window in the root folder of your television shows and then type this command
for /r %i in (*.avi) do ffmpeg -i "%i" -f mjpeg -t 0.001 -ss 5 -y "%~di%~pi%~ni.tbn"
You can replace the (*.avi) with different file formats, including mp4, divx, rmvb, ogm and rm.
This will open up your episodes, skip 5 seconds in, take a screen shot, rename it to *.tbn and then go to the next file. It will also do any sub folder.
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Seeing *.tbn files in Windows Explorer
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I bet that you know that you can go into a folder in Windows XP, switch to Thumbnail view, and be presented with an icon of the first screen from a movie. It works for images as well. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for *.tbn files. Until now, that is.
1. Create a new text document.
2. Paste the following block of text into it.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.tbn\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{3F30C968-480A-4C6C-862D-EFC0897BB84B}"
3. Rename the file so that the extension is .reg (I named mine "tbn thumbnails.reg")
4. Double-click the file and you are all set. Windows XP will now see TBN thumbnails as images and create a windows thumbnail for them. You can see them in your folders on your computer.
