is a free utility that grab images from video file and save them with JPEG extension.

Using image for your video files enable you to have a faster acces to your video library. The browser won’t need to extract the image from the video file. It will already be there.

Now Version 1.2.2 Support for non "us" version (All other version should be ok, including norwegian, let me know if it is not the case).   Download Manual

• Previsualize the images before putting them in the original folder
• Grab images with the same resolution of your video
• Status bring you directly toward missing image
• Select at which second the images must be taken
• Import images with Drag and drop or paste
• Specify another engine to grab images, default is DirectShow 

• Some video file does not come with a thumbnail image or some can’t be extracted. So even using the default media center “Video Library” you get no image displayed. An mkv file is such an example. In order to see an image, you simply need to put an image beside the video file with the same name with a JPeg extension. To make those change appear in the default “Video library” browser from Media Center, you will need to delete the thumbs.db file.
• When using the default “Video library browser" from Media Center you will gain speed access. The browser won’t need to extract the image from the video file. It will already be there. Make sure you deleted the thumbs.db file for the change to take effect.
• It enable you to select a better image describing the video, sometimes the image will be blank because the video start with a blank images, so with an image file you can select which image will be displayed for the video.
• You also gain in resolution, now you can have the image at the same resolution as the original video, or even higher.

VideoImageGrabber Screenshots

 

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