FLV thumbnail preview

[Darko3d]

I have been trying to address this issue for sometime now. i downloaded over 1000 flv file during the last three month and i've playing them on vlc and klite, the problem is that flv is not supported by xp, thus xp cant show thumbnail previews, i though that if i get wmp to play flv this will autmaticly enable xp to create thumbnail but that didnt happen. So anybody has any idea on how to do it???or is it possible at all?

[Darko3d]

does it work for XP??

[Mohammad_Khalid_Hussain]

does it work for XP??

Yes, it does work on XP. <snip> does work with XP, and thumbnail generation does work.

Edited April 27, 2008 by bmaher

[Hani]

thanks for the info. i never really new that you can preview flv thumbnails.

[Tristan]

thanks for the info. i never really new that you can preview flv thumbnails.

same here

[User6060]

i wouldn't really install anything as long as you have the directshow codec for .flv already installed, all you need a registry key. i could prob. make one.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.flv\ShellEx\]
{BB2E617C-0920-11D1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

save as a .reg and import, you can change flv to any video codec, it worked for my real media :D

Edited April 26, 2008 by Co_Co

[Harlem39s Finest]

^^^

doesn't work for me :(

[Brian M. Veteran]

Thread Cleaned

Please don't discuss illegal codec packs.

[:No-Frost:]

Ok, I found the error on the code that Co_Co posted... Heres what you should copy and save as a reg file...

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.flv\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

It worked for me, the problem was that in one of the lines it was bad written, making the reg file create the key, but with an error...

I don't know how to explain it on english...

Tested it and working for Windows XP Pro....

The same works for mov and others extensions... all you had to do is to change the .flv parte to the extension you want to add and voila... Thumbnail available...

Example for MOV:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mov\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

As you can see the .flv extension now was changes to .mov, and you now can have thumbnails for mov files...

An update, here you will had .FLV, .MOV and .MP4 thumbnails:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.flv\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mov\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

Don't need to restart the computer to see the changes....

Edited April 29, 2008 by :No-Frost:

[Harlem39s Finest]

hmmm it works for mov & mp4 but not for flv, i have no idea why ?

[:No-Frost:]

Maybe you don't have the codec information for it...

Imean, Using KMPlayer I select the flv files to work with it (as KMPlayer has it's own codecs) and then, making the reg file as I said befor it works...

[Harlem39s Finest]

Maybe you don't have the codec information for it...

Imean, Using KMPlayer I select the flv files to work with it (as KMPlayer has it's own codecs) and then, making the reg file as I said befor it works...

i did that(and i use KMPlayer too)

maybe this will help ?

[:No-Frost:]

Well, mine it's pretty different... Here you go my reg keys for the .flv extension...

Remove the PersistenHandler key

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.flv]
"PerceivedType"="video"
"Content Type"="video/x-flv"
@="KMPlayer.flv"
"KMPBackup.bak"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.flv\OpenWithList]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.flv\OpenWithList\ShowTime.exe]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.flv\OpenWithList\ShowTime.exe\ShowTime.exe]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.flv\ShellEx]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.flv\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

[majax79]

I've been looking for a way to preview FLV thumbnails in explorer.

I've got winxp SP3 with regeditor 5. I did the basic regedit of adding:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.flv\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]

@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

Now I do get thumbnail previews of FLV vids but the preview image is upside down. I use MPC Home Cinema to play all videos and it plays the correct way when I open it up.

I opened the video up with Gspot and the codec is FLV4/VP Name is Flash/On2 VP6.

Gspot also gives me a compatibility warning:

- Requires Flash 8+ capable player

Anyone know what I can do to fix this?

[ralphgmr]

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.flv\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mov\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

Don't need to restart the computer to see the changes....

Wow this is incredible! I never imagined that would work out! Thanks!! Just one question: do you know if it is possible that the thumbnail generated for a file, would not be the first frame of the movie? Lot of them start black, so would it be possible to the generated thumbnail, be from the middle of the movie?

Thanks!