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?
Icaros 1.2.5 works, if it doesn't work alone, install Shark007 Codec Pack!
mkv
, and click the 'deactivated' under 'Thumbnailing' to toggle it. Thumbnails will start being generated immediately.
Go to the Haali Media Splitter Properties.
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.
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).
{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}
come from? Looking at my reg it's {9DBD2C50-62AD-11D0-B806-00C04FD706EC}
for .mpg and .avi
MediaPreview as suggested per lifehacker does a fine job, also for other formats such as ogg
and 3gp
.
It's problem caused by Windows 64 bit. Download K-lite Codec Pack for 64bit and everything works out fine. Tried. Note: Use it together with K-Lite Codec PAck for 32bit for best result.