Create a thumnail from a video file

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Amol - 27 May 2008 03:28 GMT

Hi ,
I need to grab thumbnails from a video file with extension wmv or dat.
I need to write the code in c#

has anybody done this before.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

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Peter Duniho - 27 May 2008 06:39 GMT

> I need to grab thumbnails from a video file with extension wmv or dat.
> I need to write the code in c#
>
> has anybody done this before.

I recommend you Google "DirectShow .NET". There's an open source project
named that designed for allowing the use of DirectShow from .NET
applications. You can get a thumbnail frame from a valid video file
(don't know whether ".dat" qualifies, since that's a pretty generic file
extension) using the IMediaDet interface (if I remember the name
correctly...if I don't, it's something like that :) ).

Pete

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