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Asked: 2026-05-26T05:02:09+00:00

I can successfully display the first frame of a MediaElement in my ListBox (using

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I can successfully display the first frame of a MediaElement in my ListBox (using this method).
But when I get a large number of files (more than 20), it takes a long time before anything shows up.

I considered having the source point to just an image of the video, but there’s not a good way to get an image of a MediaElement frame.
Another thought was to use the thumbs.db file, but Windows doesn’t always generate one of those, and I don’t know how to that anyways.
I also considered just loading the MediaElements that are visible in my ListBox, and as the user scrolls I’d load more, but I’m not sure on how to do this either.

Does anybody know of some way to get the image to display quickly when dealing with a large number of MediaElements?

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  1. Editorial Team

    In case anybody else comes across this, here’s what I ended up doing:
    I replaced the MediaElements with Images. In my MediaItem‘s constructor, I save a thumbnail to a specified folder if it does not already exist. Using this code allows it to be asynchronous. Then all I had to do was to add an EventHandler to my MediaItem to let the UI know when to refresh the Image once the thumbnail was saved. (I also restricted the ThreadPool.)

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