Media Portal - Generating Thumbnails for Videos

tgxiii

Limp Gawd
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Does anyone know how to get Media Portal to generate thumbnails of video files? I went through the configuration and found no place to turn it on or off, only a slider bar to set what quality to make the thumbs.

I'm using the 1.0 RC3 on Windows XP Pro.
 
Updating your movie database (I believe under Movies in advanced mode of Media Portal Configuration) should generate thumbnails from cover art pulled off imdb.

Please note that this is painfully slow so aim to do it overnight if possible.
 
Oh, those show up just fine. What I meant was thumbnails generated from a random frame of the video file. I have video files that do not have IMDB entries, but I'd still prefer to see something relevant to the video instead of just a generic icon.

I guess I'm jumping the gun here. Does Media Portal even have this feature? I assumed it did because of the quality slider I mentioned earlier.
 
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