How to show preview of video like it shown in Explorer

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noluckyatall
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How to show preview of video like it shown in Explorer

Post by noluckyatall »

By default, Everything show video's preview with blurred thumbnail (and slow) with three buttons at bottom: "stop, play/pause, Open in Windows Media Player", but in Windows Explorer, it shows thumbnail like a screenshot of video (higher resolution) without buttons at all, I remember Everything show video's preview like Explorer before, but now it have 3 buttons...

I expect Everything to show preview of video without buttons, just the thumbnail (like Explorer does), which is not blurred, and I use Icaros to generate thumbnail cache to speed up preview progress

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Everything version used: Version 1.4.1.1022 (x64)
therube
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Re: How to show preview of video like it shown in Explorer

Post by therube »

You're on 1.4... I think this will do it...


Everything.ini, change the value of:

show_preview_handlers_in_preview_pane=0
to
show_preview_handlers_in_preview_pane=2
void
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Re: How to show preview of video like it shown in Explorer

Post by void »

You might see a different preview from Windows Explorer if you run Everything as administrator.

Please make sure Everything is installed correctly and running as a standard user:
  • In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the General tab on the left.
  • Check Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything.
  • Uncheck Run as administrator.
  • Check Everything Service. (Please make sure this is tick-checked and not square-checked)
  • Click OK.
  • Exit Everything (from the File menu, click Exit).
  • Restart Everything.
Does the issue persist?
noluckyatall
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Re: How to show preview of video like it shown in Explorer

Post by noluckyatall »

Thanks for replies, set show_preview_handlers_in_preview_pane=2 did the work :D
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