What software can be installed so that Windows Explorer will do a preview of the .MOV 422 files?
I tried VLC, but it just flashes and has to be canceled from Task Manager.
The ".MOV 422" files can be almost anything. Need full details, please.
Sorry. From Panasonic HC-X2. I finally found a YouTube video showing APV.IO had a free player, and it does play them, but I'm not getting a preview.
The reason they won't play for you is that AVC High422p profile is pretty rare in the wild.
Kind of surprised VLC / ffmpeg hasn't tackled it by now.
What software can be installed so that Windows Explorer will do a preview of the .MOV 422 files?
I tried VLC, but it just flashes and has to be canceled from Task Manager.
Try this player
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases/tag/2.1.7
I use MPC Black with such files.
APV and MPC both play these files great. But neither give a Windows Explorer preview. Is this something in Windows that needs setting?
This is what I use, because it's so easy, but don't know if it introduces any negatives, select only video files. It's possibly automating a process that you could do yourself without a piece of software, and you might be able to find instructions for that.
The Windows Shell icon doesn't show a thumbnail? Neither do my mpeg-2 files from two decades ago.
That's a whole different issue than player "preview."
I have seen third party utilities to create that Windows System Shell Icon Thumbnail for you. Good luck!
The Windows Shell icon doesn't show a thumbnail? Neither do my mpeg-2 files from two decades ago.
That's a whole different issue than player "preview."
I have seen third party utilities to create that Windows System Shell Icon Thumbnail for you. Good luck!
The 3rd party player logo thumnail shows. But what I need is to see a little of the video to identify what it is. And there is no PREVIEW in the preview pane. So I have to double click to play it. At least these files can be played now, which is almost as good as seeing the more instant preview.
@wilri001 I've had the representative thumbnails suddenly just disappear in both Win 10 and Win 11 drives. The only solution I've found to get them back was with K-Lite codec. I downloaded the Basic, and the thumbnails have images now.
There are some people who do not recommend it, some that do. It was the only solution to see an image on my video thumbnails that I know of.