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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / thumbnailing large video files

« on: 2016-09-03 11:41:58 »

I used to have this problem in the past, too, but it seemed to go away in one of the recent releases. Or maybe it was caused by a change in my codec setup. Thumbnailing videos is quite buggy.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Updating name of external drives

« on: 2016-05-21 07:47:21 »

Dear Daan,

I tried the third solution, but forgot about the 'Automatically Remove Orphans' option. Thanks!

Helmer

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Updating name of external drives

« on: 2016-05-21 03:29:18 »

I recently used Disk Management to change the name of one my external drives. When I opened up TP, both the old and the new names appeared under Computer. Is there any way for me to change the name of the old version in TP or any other way to update TP? In the end I had to remove all the thumbs in the old version, refresh, and remake thumbs in the new one. There's probably something simple I'm missing, but I couldn't find it.

Thanks!

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Black dots when viewing animated GIFs

« on: 2016-05-10 05:31:06 »

By the way, here is an example of my problem.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Black dots when viewing animated GIFs

« on: 2016-05-10 05:11:02 »

Dear Daan,

Yes, there is some problem with transparancy. Thanks for the tip about JASC Animation Shop. Will also see if I can do something in GIMP.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Problem moving groups of files in 4009?

« on: 2016-05-10 05:04:35 »

I want to support Cerious, so I'm willing to live with problems in order to help them beta test. I was actually beginning to like 4007. I have uninstalled and gone back to 4005. I couldn't find a link to 4007.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Problem moving groups of files in 4009?

« on: 2016-05-07 19:25:25 »

I'm having some weird problems. It doesn't seem to occur all the time, but often when I try to move a group of files, a + appears instead, but nothing happens. Neither copy nor move. I have to drag them again. Then there is no +, and the files do move. Strange!

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Black dots when viewing animated GIFs

« on: 2016-04-01 17:27:37 »

I have a lot of problems with animated GIFs and TP. Most of them I've somewhat learned to live with, but one is causing a serious problem. Sometimes I will get lots of black dots when viewing the animation. Sometimes I will only get it when stepping through the animation. Any suggestions? It could be that the problem is with the files. Any suggestions for how I can change the file to avoid this problem? Thanks!

Helmer Aslaksen

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Displaying dimension of video files

« on: 2016-02-01 19:04:08 »

Oh, yes. Faster.

But there are still a lot of things I don't understand.

What's the difference in T+ between thumbing multiple files, vs just do F3 on one of them or Ins?

Why did some of the ones with the VC-1 coded give me trouble, but not others?

Not quite sure what K-Lite was using earlier. Either LAV or some Microsoft stuff, I think.

I just installed the Full K-Lite package instead of the Basic. The Full one has FFdshow. Then I switch between different ones to test.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Displaying dimension of video files

« on: 2016-02-01 17:53:30 »

Thanks for all the help! I've more or less sorted it out. I installed FDshow, even though I probably already had it as part of K-Lite as you said. That helped with some files, but there were still 10 recalcitrant files. They were all wmv files, and when I used Mediainfo on them, I saw that they all used a VC-1 codec. All the wmv files that used WMV1, 2 or 3 were OK. But the strange thing was that some of the VC-1 files thumbed OK.

I then opened FDshow's configuration utility, and I saw that VC-1 was listed as disabled. I assume that means that some other program handled it. I then instead selected libavcodec, and they all thumbed like a dream!

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Displaying dimension of video files

« on: 2016-02-01 03:26:27 »

Thanks for the help!

I'm trying to find out which videos cause the problem. Seems that SOME of the wmv files make T+ hang.

I'll try to install FFDshow. Do you have to configure it in any way to make sure T+ uses it?

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Displaying dimension of video files

« on: 2016-01-31 16:54:29 »

What do you use for thumbnail option? I used to use first non-black, but I found that that gave me a lot of black thumbs, so now I use the 5% option. Do you think that is what slows me down?

I use the K-lite package with default settings.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Displaying dimension of video files

« on: 2016-01-31 16:16:44 »

Thanks!

I was a bit too optimistic. It takes longer time than the normal thumbing, especially for bigger files. (I've never understood why it should take longer to thumb a big file!). So I get "Not responding" messages all the time. Sometimes it starts again, but sometimes I lose patience and restart. So it takes a long time to get through 4000 files. :-(

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Displaying dimension of video files

« on: 2016-01-31 12:09:01 »

Daan, you're the man! :-)

I had picked up a few TP tricks from this forum, but I had missed the INS trick!

Still waiting for TP to work its way through 4000 video files, but so far it looks promising!

Thanks!

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Displaying dimension of video files

« on: 2016-01-31 07:50:35 »

I've had to rebuild my database and I have to reconfigure some settings. I remember most of my old settings, and how I configured them, but I cannot seem to get the dimensions of my video files to show. I believe I was able to do that in the past.

I've checked Dimensions under Options->Preferences->Thumbnails View, and it shows for picture files, but not for video files. But if I right-click and select properties->details, I see the information I want.

Any suggestions? Thanks!