How can I make Windows 7 show thumbnails for MKV files?
Solution 1
Icaros 1.2.5 works, if it doesn't work alone, install Shark007 Codec Pack!
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Icaros_d7220.html
Solution 2
Go to the Haali Media Splitter Properties.
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Click the Options tab, expand Explorer integration and select Enable thumbnails extraction:
Set the value to Yes. You might want to configure the Thumbnails offset (a milliseconds value) to say, 10000 to give you more representative thumbnails.
Restart the machine.
Solution 3
It doesn't seem to work at first with Windows 7 64-bit.
You need to add the following lines to the registry:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mkv\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11D1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mkv\ShellEx\{e357fccd-a995-4576-b01f-234630154e96}]
@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"
Curiously, a whole day after applying those changes, thumbnails for mkv files began to show up in Explorer, so it does work (with Haali MKV Splitter on Windows 7 64-bit systems).
Solution 4
MediaPreview as suggested per lifehacker does a fine job, also for other formats such as ogg
and 3gp
.
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Henry
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Henry almost 2 years
I'm using Windows 7 64-bit and have installed the latest Haali Media Splitter.
How can I make Windows Explorer show thumbnails for MKV files?
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Henry about 13 yearstried, doesn't work.
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Henry over 12 yearswhere does
{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}
come from? Looking at my reg it's{9DBD2C50-62AD-11D0-B806-00C04FD706EC}
for .mpg and .avi -
Henry over 12 yearstried both, restarted, they don't work... or maybe i really need to wait 'a whole day'?
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Realcool over 12 yearsSadly I don't know how to change this. It seems use the same offset no matter what value I set in haali options.
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Henry over 12 yearsI think it stops working again, sad.
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Ran Elgiser over 5 yearsConfirming that Icaros 3.1.0 is working well on Windows 7. Just install, launch the (slick looking) configurator, replace the default set of filetypes with
mkv
, and click the 'deactivated' under 'Thumbnailing' to toggle it. Thumbnails will start being generated immediately.