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HOW-TO create video preview thumbnails automatically - Calmiche - 2007-11-15 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. --------------------------------------- Creating XBMC Thumbnails Automatically --------------------------------------- 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/index.php?title=HOW-TO:_Create_video-preview_thumbnails 1. Download this file: http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.rev10908.7z 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. --------------------------------------- Seeing *.tbn files in Windows Explorer --------------------------------------- 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. - jaredharley - 2007-11-15 Well done! I'm going to have to try this out, it looks awesome! Also, thanks for the .tbn preview in Windows. - jaredharley - 2007-11-16 jaredharley Wrote:Well done! I'm going to have to try this out, it looks awesome! Both are awesome! Thanks! TheTVDB - Gamester17 - 2007-11-16 Remember to share your thumbnails with others by uploading them to http://www.thetvdb.com TheTVDB is the database and scraper that XBMC uses and it is wiki based. By the users, for the users - sickboy719 - 2007-11-16 Very nice, thank you. I've been using Frameshots to make my thumbs, I'll give yours a go and see how it works. - HarshReality - 2007-11-16 Wasnt this in the wiki? Well I know I saw it but I guess its been removed. - jaredharley - 2007-11-16 Quote:Wasnt this in the wiki? Well I know I saw it but I guess its been removed. No, it's still there, Calmiche linked to it in his post. I've been all over the wiki and had never come across this tip. Calmiche Wrote:Instead of downloading each file individually, I found a tip on the XBMC wiki page. - HarshReality - 2007-11-16 I tried it for a time and worked great... 6 seasons of smallville etc. but after a time just got to be bothersom. - jaredharley - 2007-11-16 HarshReality Wrote:I tried it for a time and worked great... 6 seasons of smallville etc. but after a time just got to be bothersom. The command Calmiche uses Code: for /r %i in (*.avi) do ffmpeg -i "%i" -f mjpeg -t 0.001 -ss 5 -y "%~di%~pi%~ni.tbn" I can see how it would get irritating to do this with each new episode you download (or create, however you get them). Now that I've done the initial work, I plan on only doing it when a season is complete. - cayotic - 2007-11-17 I saw the first tutorial before but I couldn't exicute it for whatever reason so I went with frameshots. I'll try it again, as far as the tbn viewer is concerned, I don't think it works in vista, can someone else confirm. I'll try it on my main XP server where I'm sure it will work... Thanks, - jaredharley - 2007-11-17 cayotic Wrote:I saw the first tutorial before but I couldn't exicute it for whatever reason so I went with frameshots. I'll try it again, as far as the tbn viewer is concerned, I don't think it works in vista, can someone else confirm. I'll try it on my main XP server where I'm sure it will work... Vista's registry is just a little bit different. Place the below code into a normal text file, and save as a .reg file (should have the little blue cube of blocks icon). Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 As for the screenshot creator - you have to have all 3 of the linked files in the c:\windows\system32 folder. Then, in a cmd window, navigate to the folder with your tv shows (ie, type in: cd d:\tv shows) and then you can use the command he mentioned. If you copied it off of the post, you can right-click and choose "paste" to paste the text into the cmd window (you can't use ctrl+v). - Gamester17 - 2007-11-20 Feel free to update the WIKI article if needed http://xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/index.php?title=HOW-TO:_Create_video-preview_thumbnails Quote:All users who wish to continue providing a valid contribution to the XBox Media Center online manual, please contact one of the XBMC team members and ask for Ninja status on the wiki.http://xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page - jaredharley - 2007-11-20 Gamester17 Wrote:Feel free to update the WIKI article if needed http://xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/index.php?title=HOW-TO:_Create_video-preview_thumbnails I'd need ninja status for that.... pretty please? - DrDDT - 2007-11-21 I added an 'if exist' to the batch file so it can run scheduled for automatic run every day. Does anybody know how to nest the for loop so I can check several root folders in one line? I now use: Code: @echo off I'd like to merge the two for loops and make use of the DIRS variable. - Gamester17 - 2007-12-12 FYI; this was added to the Linux port branch of XBMC late yesterday: Quote:extract frame from video files without thumb. experimental.Let's hope this feature gets ported back to the Xbox trunk as well |