can you make screencaps of .mkv files?

January 25th, 2020

I know you can make them using VLC but is there anything like scorps video thumbnails maker? thanks.
Answer #1
Thumbnail Me.
It can make screencaps of all kinds of formats
Answer #2
Maybe Media Player Classic?
Answer #3
Check out ZoomPlayer, it handles MKV and a screen capture is the space bar.
Answer #4
Media Player Classic is awesome for this job. No one beats it
Answer #5
Image grabber II
Answer #6

Speedle wrote: Select all

Maybe Media Player Classic?
I second that,it’s very easy and 1 click.
Answer #7
Yes you can make screenshots of .MKV files, use Media Player Classic
Answer #8
I would recommend KMPlayer because it can make Caps of what you see for Anamorphic video which MPC cannot do.
Thumbnails are a total waste of time IMO, what is the use in having thumbnails of a screen? It provides no indication of quality and is just used to hide quality issues IMO. I would not download from a thread using thumbnail screen caps.
Answer #9
Thumbnailme is the best I’ve ever used for thumbnails. It’s a freeware
Answer #10
Thumbnail Me is GUI for MTN, which is open source and can be found on Sourceforge.net Also, if You need CLI, mtn is the best.
Also, I saw a lot of SMPlayer screenshots.
Movie Batch Thumbnailer FrontEnd, is the one I preffer, works nice on servers. Very similar to Thumbnail ME, but more options.
@ no idea of what kind of hiding of quality you are reffering to…on a static image you can see everything, from amount of grain, to crap from compression when dark parts come into scene. It’s actually vice versa.
Answer #11
@ no idea of what kind of hiding of quality you are reffering to...on a static image you can see everything, from amount of grain, to crap from compression when dark parts come into scene. It's actually vice versa.
Video quality looks better on screencaps. That’s why reputable uploaders provide video samples with their uploads.
Answer #12
thank you. thumbnail me was perfect.
Answer #13

@ no idea of what kind of hiding of quality you are reffering to...on a static image you can see everything, from amount of grain, to crap from compression when dark parts come into scene. It's actually vice versa.

Not on a small thumbnail you can’t, reducing the size, reduces the detail which tends to eliminate many video artefacts produced in poor quality encodes. Any reduction in size of the capture will tend to hide imperfections.
Full size images show the quality better although a stationary image can easily be selected that shows very little video artefacts.
As says, a sample is the best thing to judge the quality.