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Thumbnails
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 1:26 am
by boristm
When I view avi's or mp4's in explorer I see a thumbnail from the movie as the icon for the file. With matroska mkv this doesn't seem to be the case. Instead I get a black circle with a black arrow head inside.
Is it possible to get a thumbnail from the movie itself instead of this circle?
Re: Thumbnails
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 4:26 am
by Woodstock
You need to install a CODEC package to allow Windows to read MKV files. There are several out there, but you have to decide whether or not you trust something downloaded from untrusted sources.
Microsoft is expanding media player support (which is the basis for the thumbnails working in Explorer) to include MKV files in Windows 10.
Be warned that adding the CODECs will SLOW EXPLORER DOWN. The more file types it "knows about", the more time it will spend analyzing every file it sees, just to change the icon. When directories have hundreds of files in them, it can be painfully slow opening a directory!
Re: Thumbnails
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 12:24 am
by boristm
You make a good case for not having thumbnails, I appreciate your advice.
Re: Thumbnails
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 9:58 am
by ndjamena
You could always try it out and see.
I've barely noticed on my PC, but I've read the number of cores in a CPU can effect how noticeable the slow down is.
The worst that happens in my case is a slight delay when playing back a video... and you can't delete a folder while thumbnails are being created. I installed "Unlocker" to get around that annoyance.