[Suggestion] Jump to a good frame for video preview thumbnail

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spooky
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[Suggestion] Jump to a good frame for video preview thumbnail

Post by spooky »

The default preview thumbnail for videos are from the first seconds of the file, making the preview mostly useless in cases where all videos have an intro

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Is there any possibility to make an optional "extract a frame at 10% of the file for preview" or something like that?
void
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Re: [Suggestion] Jump to a good frame for video preview thumbnail

Post by void »

Everything uses the system preview handler to render previews.

The system preview handler can be customized with third party preview handlers.

Please try a third party preview handler for videos.
If anyone knows of a good third party preview handler, please recommend it here.
NotNull
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Re: [Suggestion] Jump to a good frame for video preview thumbnail

Post by NotNull »

Icaros.
You can specify to get a thumbnail at X percent of the movie or at Y seconds

(Lots of other options too)

No official homepage that I know of, so use a search engine.
horst.epp
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Re: [Suggestion] Jump to a good frame for video preview thumbnail

Post by horst.epp »

NotNull wrote: Sat Apr 09, 2022 11:54 pm Icaros.
You can specify to get a thumbnail at X percent of the movie or at Y seconds

(Lots of other options too)

No official homepage that I know of, so use a search engine.
Icaros is part of the K-Lite Codec Pack which for me is one of the best on the market.
hamid56
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Re: [Suggestion] Jump to a good frame for video preview thumbnail

Post by hamid56 »

Hi
you can easily download ikaros from below link(majorgeek is very excellent website) but i think another software "media preview" is valuable to try.
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/icaros.html
media preview is excellent software
http://babelsoft.net/products/mediapreview.htm
NotNull
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Re: [Suggestion] Jump to a good frame for video preview thumbnail

Post by NotNull »

Thanks for mentioning "Media Preview", @hamid56!
Looks like a very useful preview handler (not tested yet)

Does Media Preview support taking a thumbnails beyond the start of the video? (that was OP's major issue)
horst.epp
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Re: [Suggestion] Jump to a good frame for video preview thumbnail

Post by horst.epp »

The Icaros home page is at
https://shark007.net/forum/Forum-Icaros-Development
I had MediaPreview from Babelsoft installed
before I switched to K-Lite Codec Pack including Icaros.
There was no preview handler, only thumbnails for all sorts of media.
spooky
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Re: [Suggestion] Jump to a good frame for video preview thumbnail

Post by spooky »

NotNull wrote: Sun Apr 10, 2022 2:19 pm Thanks for mentioning "Media Preview", @hamid56!
Looks like a very useful preview handler (not tested yet)

Does Media Preview support taking a thumbnails beyond the start of the video? (that was OP's major issue)
Did my research @horst.epp and the features page says that it supports what I'm asking for, I end up using Icaros since it was recommended first though. Thanks everybody!
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