Batch Preview Image/Screenshot Generator?

[milOtis]

I have over 1,000 M4V files, personal cartoon collection for my kid, that I need to create preview images for. I do not have the time to go through, watch a few seconds of each file, then name it with the title of the cartoon...that would take months. Instead, I have decided just to make the preview images so that we can look at those, and know what file to watch. I know that Media Player Classic can do one screen-shot creation file for a single video, but is there a batch function? I need a program that can go through all 1,000 of these and create preview images without me having to babysit the computer.

Thanks

[Baldrick]

Video Thumbnails Maker

[milOtis]

Excellent! Will give it a go.

[milOtis]

Bummer, that did not work...

"0 Done, 1068 Fails"

I guess it cannot do .m4v format? They play fine in both Windows Media Player and VLC, and I really do not want to change it to "mp4" since m4v's show thumbnails in Windows Explorer. MP4 does not.

[Baldrick]

Scenegrabber.NET

[milOtis]

Wow, I get "IND" errors with that one. It will not even open my file, originaly, then wehn I click OK past the errors, it begins playing the video file. Whatever. So, I tried to click the "make Screenshots" button, and it errors out, and the program crashes.

I can do it one by one just fine with Media Player Classic...(see below)


...Unfortunately, I do not have two weeks vacation to spend doing this one at a time. Thank you for the suggestions so far. The first one, Video Thumbnails Maker, has a GREAT interface, but just can't scan M4V files, and I know there is nothing wrong with these files