Stefaan Van de Winkel from our partner Ordina recently made a custom media engine which uses FFmpeg to create image previews of movies. Not only did they write it, they were so kind to let us publish the code on our blog portal. It's a very good example of how easy it is to develop a custom media engine.

You can download or browse through the code using the links below. It contains a class library containing the media engine and a test console application that demonstrates one possible way of using it. Refer to the Adam Documentation to learn more about how to register a custom media engine in the database.

The article assumes FFmpeg.exe is installed in C:\Tools and you should add a movie and possibly change the filename of that movie in Program.cs of test console.

Enjoy!