I have alot of videos i have downloaded. I play them with VLC player. But for some reason the only type that will show a thumbnail is the .wmv files. The ones that dont show a thumbnail is the .avi and .mp4 files. They all play fine with vlc. But i would like to have the thumbnails.
I also have realplayer,quicktime,and divx player installed.
Running Vista 64bit
Any ideas?
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I guess you mean thumbnails in windows file explorer?
Can you play avi and mp4 files in windows media player? If not you need codecs for that like ffdshow. -
Yes in windows explorer sorry. I can play .avi and mp4 with windows media player. I installed this Haali Media Splitter thing, so they both play with wmp, but all i see in my video folder is the *cone* VLC icons instead of thumbnails.
Dont know if this helps or not, as i dont know what i am doing, but when i open one of my mp4 videos in wmp, and go to file properties, this is the video codec it is using DivX H.264 Decoder
OK i have installed and un installed every codec pack that i can find, and none of them will make the mp4 show thumbnails. Im sure i have messed up by doing it, but its driving me nuts. I have windows media player, quicktime, vlc, flv player, realplayer and they all play all my videos, so im lost as to why i see icons instead of thumbs. -
Sorry, just wanted to add that i installed ffdshow and shark007 codecs for vista 32 and 64 bit. Now all files play with windows media player and all files have thumbnails except mp4`s. So if anyone has an idea of how to show mp4 thumbnail, i would REALLY appreciate it
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