how can I show the thumbnails from an avi file like Explorer does

Question

Need it to work in WPF Basically I am showing a list of all vide files in a list control and I want a image frame or thumbnail if you will was wondering how explorer does it ?

Answer 1

it probably does what you expect: it reads some of the file, uses the appropriate codec to decode some video, and then creates an image from one or more frames.