In explorer you can change the view setting to thumbnails, and you get
thumbnails even from movies.

I want to do the same from asp.net. I want to create 'on the fly' thumbnails
from some mpg movies, but I don't know if that's possible from asp.net. Who
can help me with this?

The mechanism that enables Explorer to display the thumbnail of an MPEG
movie is the shell extension that implements IExtractImage.

You can create a C# program that uses COM to obtain the thumbnail image for
any object that supports the IExtractImage interface.

I recently did an article in WellFormed that showed how to create images for
..NET applications and custom file types and while researching found several
articles on the process of extracting thumbnails. Here's one of them...

http://tinyurl.com/2lzbe

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Looks great but I need a solution in Visual Basic 6 that does this same thing

:)

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