Question

I am using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5 on Windows 7. I want to use Expression Encoder 3 to generate thumbnail image for video (wmv format) every 30 seconds — e.g. for a 5 minutes video, there will be 10 thumbnails which reflects video at the time of 0 second, 30 second, 1 minute, 1 minute and 30 seconds, etc.

Any reference code?

Answer 1

Using the SDK you could try using the GetThumbnail method:

var video = new MediaItem(filePath);
using (var bitmap = video.MainMediaFile.GetThumbnail(
    new TimeSpan(0, 0, 5), 
    new System.Drawing.Size(640, 480)))
{
    // do something with the bitmap like:
    bitmap.Save("thumb1.jpg");
}