One of the things I love about the VISTA Media Center experience is the inclusion of thumbnails in the experience when no folder art is available, in a discussion with Stephen Toub I found out two different ways this could be implemented by third-parties:
· DirectShow iMediaDet
· Windows Presentation Foundation’s RenderTargetBitmap
The WPF Blog from FrogDesign has a sample of how to do the RenterTargetBitmap approach while Stephen has posted a sample of how to do this via iMediaDet.
I have not looked into this much but the best approach for this in a MCML application for media center would likely be iMediaDet it might be possible to mix and match the two presentation layers but I don’t know.
I should note theta the iMediaDet approach doesn’t support dvr-ms while the RenterTargetBitmap one does.