[VB6] Shell Video Thumbnail Images

[dilettante]

And how does it get the thumbnails?


In any case this might only be useful to somebody writing some special purpose video management application, such as one creating an index database for referencing offline archived videos. I would think location and timestamp more useful but people do seem to love their thumbnails.

Here's another version of the batch grabber with a minor change to scale down the images, which seems to be needed for Windows 7.

It doesn't address any XP issues and probably not the Win7/PNG issues but I need to retest on Win7.

Edit:

Found the bug. A silly error in the GDI+ code, though oddly one that Vista is immune to. PNG and GIF both work even on Win7 now.

Edit:

Added a test to confirm the Variant subtype of SCID_Kind values before trying to examine them. Should avoid some types of errors when run on XP though the program still won't work on XP (will never find any "video" files). But checking SCID_Kind could be removed entirely if you wanted to.