How to enable thumbnail view for matroska (real, quicktime)?

[igor140]

Some time ago Animaniac put out this nifty little tool to enable explorer thumbnail view for matroska files, but the attachment is gone.

Could anyone provide a download link or

- even better -

teach me which registry keys to tweak, because I would like to try it on Quicktime and Real files as well.
Since we can play them through direct show now, thumbnail view should be possible as well.

[Animaniac]

I'm not at my home computer, but when I am, I'll explain how I did it, I also I have a nifty set of keys that I made to integrate MPC better with the shell. I'll post that as well. After spending time in the Matroska IRC chat, I learned that this is somewhat of a hack, basically using the AVI Thumbnail handler for other formats. It works because that handler is DirectShow based.

[jcsston]

I am expanding the Matroska Shell Ext to handle the Thumbnail view and Tooltips for Matroska files.
The benfit rather than using the AVI/DirectShow Thumbnail view is that you could have the Movie cover or album (if it's music) cover displayed instead of the (often black) first frame. :)

And it isn't a hack ;)

[filewalker]

It would be nice if we could mux the cover of a movie (.jpg) into Matroska.
And when the .mkv files are displayed in explorer (in thumbnail view) it would be nice if we could view this cover of the movie directly in explorer instead of an ordinarry thumbnail(or icon).

This feature would be nice but I don't know if it's possible(or will be possible in the future for MKV)...just a simple idea...:)


Cu filewalker

I was too slow with typing...:D my request is answeared now by jcsston...:) Thanks man for this great feature.

[igor140]

Animaniac, thanks for your quick answer. I am really looking forward to your stuff.

@ the others:

BTW if you want to display a particular image like e.g. a movie cover through the regular AVI/DirectShow Thumbnail view you could always make a one-frame-movie of the cover and append the actual movie to it.

[Animaniac]

Media Player Classic Alternate Registry Keys (http://mywpages.comcast.net/transposon/mpc_winxp_alt_reg_keys.zip)

There are the registry keys. I've divided up the two keys needed per file extension/type, the program key and the extension key. This is annoying when it comes to registring them, as there are 80 Registry Files, but that's how I originally wrote them, and I am too lazy to piece them together. -_-;;

Thumbnails are generated for video files, three context menu items "Play," "Open," and "Add to playlist..." are added. With regards to this I would "Remove access" to WMP9 from the court-ordered XP SP1 Program Access panel, since WMP9 has forced context menu items which are WMP9-associated duplicates of the above three. Therefore not doing so would produce two of each context menu item.

It also overwrites the old keys program association, so it does not back up like MPC does. It goes without saying, backup your registry before using them.

As far as just getting a thumbnail, this is what would need to be added for a .mkv: (You can obviously use any extension.)

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mkv\ShellEx]

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


Enjoy. ^_^

Edit: Bad link.