Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions. Icaros can provide Windows Explorer thumbnails, for essentially any video media format supported by FFmpeg, this includes popular filetypes such as: Mkv, Flv, Avi, Mp4, Mov, Rmvb, M2ts, Ogm etc.
Besides the FFmpeg supported filetypes, Icaros also contains custom parsers, which can produce Cover Art thumbnails for Mkv, Flac, Ape, Mpc and several other filetypes.
Icaros also provides Windows Explorer properties for the following popular filetypes: Mkv, Mk3d, Mp4, Mov, Webm, Ogm, Ogg, Flv, Avi, Rm, Rmvb, Flac, Opus, Spx, Ape, Mp3, Mpc, Mka, Tak, Tta, Ofr, Wav and more.
Properties refer to the info shown for each file in Explorer, such as length, width, height, title, channels and so on.
Icaros works on Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Icaros Shell Extensions 3.3.5 changelog:
- Added more MKV tags and improved handling of Title, Artist and Part Number tags
- Added TGA and HDR to the presets
- Added MXF as a default file format
- Fixed colors in EXR thumbnails
- Fixed thumbnailing of files containing HEVC with an alpha layer
- Fixed thumbnailing of AVIF files with auxiliary data layers
- Fixed thumbnailing of certain HEIC files
- Fixed thumbnailing of MOV/MP4 files with encrypted streams
- Fixed a "phantom Enter" being fired when calling the IcarosConfig commands from a script
- MKV files now shows the full date for the "Date released" property instead of just the year
- Only show the Album Artist on MKA files. In MKV files use Artist field instead.
- Added Czech localization (Thank you John Peri! ^__^)
- Updated German localization (Thank you Klaus Luppert! ^__^)
- Updated Japanese localization (Thank you taka! ^__^)
- Updated Dav1d to 1.5.2
- Updated GCC
- Updated FFmpeg
Download: Icaros Shell Extensions 3.3.5 | 12.7 MB (Freeware)
Download: Portable Icaros 3.3.5
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