Making screenshots/previews with Media Player Classic (MPC) ... - Page 2

rick ace · November 9th, 2009, 01:35 PM

Hi I am trying to produce screengrabs for ripped video. Following the 'how to guide'. however whn it comes to he save image i get a message saying
'cannot create thumbnails for files with no duration'. Is this a setting thing? as i can't find it. Any help would be appreciated.

DubSalute · November 9th, 2009, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by rick ace

'cannot create thumbnails for files with no duration'.

I'm not familair with that error, does it only happen with one file? or also when you try to make screens from other video files?

**G-Type** · November 9th, 2009, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by DubSalute

I'm not familair with that error, does it only happen with one file? or also when you try to make screens from other video files?

Sometimes - when ripping a video and converting to another file-format - the time-scale (code) gets lost. By result: the video-length is zero. The screenshot-function however needs this time-line in order to function properly.

Just a thought...being a non-Expert though

bazam · November 10th, 2009, 09:00 PM

thanks Roger Allott and DubSalute
i tested GFrameCatcher and it works fine. thanks !

btw, Totem (the default gnome movie player) can also create thumbnails, but it takes one image every 4 seconds, whatever the duration of the movie is (i didn't find any way to change that parameter)
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I also tried EKD, a very promising project for video edition.
You can extract every images of a video and then create a contact sheet with all or only some of them but this is less simple than with GFrameCatcher if you only want to extract thumbnails.

**dohupa** · December 4th, 2009, 10:49 AM

For x64 systems

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/vi....cfm/v1_3_1249

**Roger Allott** · October 9th, 2012, 02:25 AM

A few days ago I thought it might be a jolly good idea to update my codec package. I've had the K-Lite Mega pack and it seemed to be pretty flawless for ages, so I got the new version (9.3.0). It still comes bundled with MPC HomeCinema, which I find to be a damn good Windows tool for thumbnails.

However, the latest version of MPC-HC has a problem with thumbnails, in that if you're running Vista you'll probably get an error message "Attempted an unsupported operation" when you try to save a thumbnail.

A search of Google tells me that this is a known bug (see http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mpc-hc/ticket/2554) and the latest info is that a prog bod seems to have found a solution (see https://github.com/mpc-hc/mpc-hc/com...96abaaa61dc75f). However, it seems that the solution requires re-compiling the source code to create a new .exe, so one hopes they'll be getting an update out shortly.

In the meantime, I've re-started using Video Thumbnails Maker, but that for some unfathomable reason has developed a bug where screenshots are duplicated in the thumbnail image for no good reason (see below for example). This makes it look like the video is 'stuttering', when in fact it plays perfectly.

If anyone else has had this problem and can recall how to solve it, please let me know.

**lagerlout** · October 6th, 2013, 04:45 AM

Just a heads up to anyone about to upgrade to the latest MPC-HC ver . The old problem of not making screenshots properly for some types of files has resurfaced in this Ver. I had to revert

**lagerlout** · October 23rd, 2013, 04:36 AM

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Originally Posted by lagerlout

Just a heads up to anyone about to upgrade to the latest MPC-HC ver . The old problem of not making screenshots properly for some types of files has resurfaced in this Ver. I had to revert

been two new vers since then does anyone know if this is fixed yet ?

November 9th, 2009, 01:35 PM	#11
rick ace Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 51 Thanks: 277 Thanked 1,074 Times in 50 Posts	problem with mpc Hi I am trying to produce screengrabs for ripped video. Following the 'how to guide'. however whn it comes to he save image i get a message saying 'cannot create thumbnails for files with no duration'. Is this a setting thing? as i can't find it. Any help would be appreciated.

November 10th, 2009, 09:00 PM	#14
bazam Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 44 Thanks: 127 Thanked 1,256 Times in 43 Posts	thanks Roger Allott and DubSalute i tested GFrameCatcher and it works fine. thanks ! btw, Totem (the default gnome movie player) can also create thumbnails, but it takes one image every 4 seconds, whatever the duration of the movie is (i didn't find any way to change that parameter) . I also tried EKD, a very promising project for video edition. You can extract every images of a video and then create a contact sheet with all or only some of them but this is less simple than with GFrameCatcher if you only want to extract thumbnails. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

December 4th, 2009, 10:49 AM	#15
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October 9th, 2012, 02:25 AM	#16
Roger Allott Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 7,937 Thanks: 10,958 Thanked 155,878 Times in 8,000 Posts	A few days ago I thought it might be a jolly good idea to update my codec package. I've had the K-Lite Mega pack and it seemed to be pretty flawless for ages, so I got the new version (9.3.0). It still comes bundled with MPC HomeCinema, which I find to be a damn good Windows tool for thumbnails. However, the latest version of MPC-HC has a problem with thumbnails, in that if you're running Vista you'll probably get an error message "Attempted an unsupported operation" when you try to save a thumbnail. A search of Google tells me that this is a known bug (see http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mpc-hc/ticket/2554) and the latest info is that a prog bod seems to have found a solution (see https://github.com/mpc-hc/mpc-hc/com...96abaaa61dc75f). However, it seems that the solution requires re-compiling the source code to create a new .exe, so one hopes they'll be getting an update out shortly. In the meantime, I've re-started using Video Thumbnails Maker, but that for some unfathomable reason has developed a bug where screenshots are duplicated in the thumbnail image for no good reason (see below for example). This makes it look like the video is 'stuttering', when in fact it plays perfectly. If anyone else has had this problem and can recall how to solve it, please let me know. __________________ *If you don't want your beliefs ridiculed, don't have ridiculous beliefs.*

October 6th, 2013, 04:45 AM	#17
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