Can XBMC auto-create video thumbnails?

[browsebot]

For downloaded video, can/does XBMC4XBOX (or even mainline XBMC) create a thumbnail of the video that is displayed when the video file is highlighted? If so, where is this option enabled? I have noticed that when I highlight video files, a thumbnail box is displayed to the right side, but no thumbnail is actually displayed. Can XBMC4XBOX create the thumbnail automatically based on a preview of the first frame of video, or is this something that has to be created/done manually for each video? Thanks for any assistance.

[BuZz]

Xbmc can, but xbmc4xbox doesn't have this feature

[browsebot]

Thanks for the insight, Buzz. I was going crazy trying to figure this out.

[Dom DXecutioner]

Xbmc can, but xbmc4xbox doesn't have this feature

Care to expand on this? Is it because the scanner would have to open the file and extract the frame, which could be CPU extensive and slow when scanning? Is this the same as the scanning of codec and other metadata for videos, which is why you opted not include this some time ago!

[BuZz]

Slow, and high memory usage probably. I might include it as an option though. Yep, same as getting codec info etc

[r32crazy01]

I have got this feature working on my xbox, I found most of the code already existed in DVDFileInfo.cpp so it was pretty straightforward forward to get working. I find it very useful, but as Buzz mention it's resource heavy.

By default it's disabled, you can enable it by going into Settings->Video->File Lists->Extract thumbnails and video info. You can ignore the video information part (existing string).

http://redmine.exotica.org.uk/issues/334

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[Sychose]

That would be nice to include it as an option in the next version

[byron]

If it works you should definitely submit a patch...nice little option imo