A virtualdub problem

[General Mortars]

Hello, folks,

I wonder if you can help me out here, not even sure if this is the correct subforum to ask but...

Recently, I had a computer crash and had to format my disk and reinstall Windows XP Home edition.
I´ve been trying to see what I lost in the fold, drivers, programs, apps, etc.
And one of the things I noticed is that every videoclip I´ve made with virtualdub since then has no thumbnail.

All I get is this:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/550245/gallery/net/avi%20symbol.jpg

Any video I did/edited prior to the crash works fine, I can see the tiny thumbnail of the first frame.

But all the others done afterwards...

I figure it´s probably some missing codec or something but I have no idea where to find it.


Can you help me?

E.

[jagabo]

The older thumbnails were saved in the thumbs.db file in each of the older directories. You aren't getting new thumbnails because the decoder for the codec used in the files doesn't support the shell "get thumbnail" method. You need to determine what codecs are used and find a codec that supports the get thumbnail method.

[hech54]

...and how in the HELL is this a virtualdub problem!??

[General Mortars]

Hi, guys,

thank you for your repplies, I think solved the problem.
I installed the latest ffdshow and now any new video I make has thumbnails again.

I still don´t understand exactly what happened there (me no talkie computerese ), but it works, so woo-hoo, I guess.

[jagabo]

In short, ffdshow enabled windows to build thumbnails of your new videos. You saw thumbnails of your old videos because their thumbnail images were already built saved on the drive.