Hi all,

I'm a newbie here and have some questions to ask for your help.

OK, My problems is .... I have many VCDs , DVDs , MPEG files , AVI files , MOV files and many many format in my shelf that I want to know which scene are contains in which VCD , DVD , MPEG so on. And also , I want to preview them in thumbnail mode , detail mode and searchable detail. Purpose for search a frame in my catalog. And of course ... each media file/disc contains on each harddisk rack , so this software much have to read the thumbnail and save it to harddisk first then I can view the thumbnail eventhourgh I move the Harddisk rack out of the computer.

I sounds the wording 'logging and cataloging' and found the software named CatDV , that perfect to make a thumbnail and gathering thumbnail using 'auto scene detection' method (that make a thumbnail only when object in frame changed -- not all frame as 24 frame per sec.) . I have perfected time with CatDV , BUT , I can not use them to make a thumbnail from VCD/DVD disc (CatDV can not read directly through the VCD/DVD disc) Its fully support Mov , Mpeg , Avi files.

So, anyone can reach the same proplem with me ? .. Which software shoud I use ?

Thanks for your advance.