title: How can I generate a thumbnail from a local video file in the context of a Windows C++ Flutter plugin?
body: <p>I am writing a Flutter plugin for generating thumbnails for local video files for desktop platforms. I have already completed the Swift portion for macOS, and I am now trying to do the same in C++ for Windows. I have tried to use <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-classic-samples/tree/main/Samples/Win7Samples/multimedia/mediafoundation/VideoThumbnail" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this example</a> from Microsoft on how to do so, but I just get tons of errors in my plugin.cpp file when I try to run. I'm not a C++ developer, so I'm pretty in the dark about how to properly utilize this Microsoft library. Can anyone please give me some direction about this? And if this library isn't the recommended way to do this, can anyone please point me in the right direction? I know that there are some alternative libraries, like libvlc, but I am clueless about how to use them.</p>