I am running a bare metal install of Win Server 2008 R2 SP1.

BTW: The fix/script works great. Thanks!

spionwanze wrote:Hello themoosman, can you please upload this dll in a post reply or upload it somewhere else?

Thanks!

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Still no success!

Problem on:
Windows Home Server (based on Server 2003 32bit)
Windows Home Server 2011 (based on Server 2008R2 64bit)

With the SAME movie files NO problem on:
Windows 7

What i have tried on both home servers:

- installing K-Lite Codes Pack (32 and 64 bit)

- installing VLC ...

If there is a small sample file, I can check what the problem is

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Thanks, I could repeat the problem only if I disable reading file properties.

No problems in default settings, try right click - "Load file properties" - Create thumbnail.


But did it create the thumbnail?

I can do ...

Eugene wrote:If there is a small sample file, I can check what the problem is

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Eugene wrote:

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wmsmpeg -ss 5 -i M2U00469.MPG  -f image2 -vframes 1 thumbnail.jpg

Good thumbnail ?

Yep.

I change the setting from the default of 480 to 5 (restarted server) and tried it again and got the same error.

If I dump to a command prompt and use the following command:
It generates a jpg just fine. Is it possible that the UI command has an issue?

I am trying to create a thumbnail for a .mpg file (actually it does not work for any type of video file) using the rightclick "Create thumbnail" menu option. However, I get the error "Create thumbnail failed." and no thumbnail is created. I looked for a log file, however I can't seem to find one ...