Happens when opening a folder with a problematic video, renaming, deleting or trying to play said video. Explorer usually (but not always) eventually unfreezes, but it can take 1/2 hour or more & immediately freezes again when you do an operation on any file in that folder or hit refresh. Occurs with multiple versions of windows, including Win10. Uninstall Media Preview and the freeze issue instantly vanishes. Not just the folder containing the problematic video, but all folders on that drive. Sections/Browse similar toolsĬauses explorer to freeze on the drive hosting some videos (mostly mkv's from youtube), whether in thumbnail view or not (even freezes the command prompt). Media Preview remains out of the regular rendering pipeline, lets your delicate playback setup stable and out of harm, doesn't clutter your system with more than needed, but still performs efficiently. Third-party thumbnail extractors use directly the video rendering pipelines of your system and so impose upon you the media solution it's tied to, sometimes invoking a full-blown framework to do the job. Media Preview won't ever remind you of its presence as you'll be able to do what you want with your files.ĭesigned For System Stability And Performance While browsing, you probably encountered some issues like not being able to rename or move a file anymore, because the thumbnail extractor was still running in the background. If the extracted image is part of a shot transition, Media Preview will go seek the following scene to get a meaningful thumbnail. Media Preview is smart enough to detect image relevance using related metrics. The default video thumbnail extractor usually grabs the first frame of your media files, possibly leading to only display a collection of black thumbnails. Obviously, it also works seamlessly with your local and remote media files. Media Preview caters to every versions of Windows so that you won't feel cheated even if you opted for the more performing 64-bit version. And one of the main problems with third-party thumbnail extractors is that most only work on the 32-bit version. Windows comes in 2 different flavors, 32-bit and 64-bit versions, the later not being entirely backward compatible. Media Preview get over this by seeking another sequence of your media files to let you get more information out of them.
While browsing TV series folders, you probably already got sets of identical thumbnails, where the default thumbnail extractor get stuck with the same title sequence. Redefines The Uniqueness Of Your Media Files
Media Preview is here to bring to your computer the full preview capabilities for all of your media files. Third-party media players fill the gap in terms of playback but usually let the preview functionality on the side-road. Nevertheless, computers have become powerful enough not to let the matter rest, and Media Preview can help them to provide you the best.īy default, Windows only supports the media file formats developped by Microsoft or for Quicktime, and ignores other popular media formats. For media files, this is done by generating thumbnails replacing default icons.īut the default video thumbnail extractor of Microsoft generally does a lousy job at getting useful previews of your media files, mostly due to performance considerations. Since the advent of Windows XP in 2001, Windows Explorer has improved its usability by running a preview control system that let you get a glimpse at the content of your files while browsing and without having to open them.