Has anyone of you asked yourself a question: "Why do movie files show us icons or frame caps instead of covers in thumbnail mode ?"
Everyone can add album cover to mp3 file with iTunes or other programs of that kind. But what about movies ?
We have to install additional software like Collectors and add covers to their libraries. But why can't movie makers or rippers add covers right in the movie at the very beginning ?
So how can we start adding covers inside movie files like we do with mp3 ?
I think your idea is great.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but is plain easy to implement:
Make the cover be the first frame of the movie.
This is true as far as the thumbnail mode use the first frame as thumbnail.
Matonga
That's interesting approach but I was thinking of how I can add cover as a metadata to the movie.
..and the first frame of a movie file is usually black, or irrelevant to identifying the media
it'd be nice if one could specify which frame, or have the thumbnail be pulled from an offset into the file
.avi files support streams, so in that case it's just about adding a stream containing the cover and any other meta-data.
.mpeg files maybe they can be added meta-data in some way. .mp3 files support ID3 tags which are special frames, maybe the same can be done on .mpeg.
.mov, .wmv and .flv files I have no idea.
What I meant by:
"Make the cover be the first frame of the movie."
Is to take a movie into a movie editor, insert the cover before the movie's first frame (so the cover will become the first frame) then save the movie again. Yes it sucks, but you won't need to modify the rest of your computer.
I came across a program here awhile back that will let you add to a movie file just like ID3 tags work but I.m not sure about adding an image file. I will try to find the program again and take a look.
I quess you mean abcAvi. If that is the program you are talking about then I can tell you that it doesn't support covers. 
I don't believe that was it I'm pretty sure it was an open source app also, I will be looking in my links folder(huge) so it might take awhile.
Any news so far ?
Nope I guess I was mistaken I can only find ones that add text not images.
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