VLC media player disabling thumbnail previews on videos

tylar112 said:

I use VLC media player to play all my videos, (mp4, wma, avi, ect...)
I have VLC set to play all video types, but when I did that, it replaced all the thumbnails that show a preview of the video, with the VLC orange cone

How can I fix this?

Set it back.

VLC is not designed to create thumbnails of videos. Windows Media Player does that and if it is the default it creates thumbnails.

You can get Windows Media Player to play pretty much anything with the proper codecs [I recommend FFDShow-Tryouts http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/]

@JL

/sigh
/facepalm

If you don't know the answer then don't bother posting. The OP asked for advice on how to reestablish thumbnails explicitly for VLC files. For example, I understand programs exist to create or enable thumbnails in instances other programs, such as VLC, do not. This could very well be the remedy.

However, barring having to buy anything, the question remains. Anyone have an OS or VLC workaround for this yet pretty please?

From the web:

"It's a problem with x64 windows, the 64bit explorer cannot use the 32bit codecs.
The solution is to install the 64bit version of the ffdshow codecs"

That is all I can relay... (Yes, this is in regard to this exact problem)

Sounds right though I dont know about that download site. Might try finding one hosted like on source forge or someplace that sounds more close to the source. Like here ffdshow - Browse /SVN builds by clsid/old builds at SourceForge.net

Also, I have not tried it myself, so I was just relaying some second hand information I remembered hearing about It's a somewhat common complaint, a general google search might bring up some more information besides what I posted (The details were no longer available "missing page".)

:S VLC is making the thumbnails for me but yeah I don't use VLC anymore... now try using SMPlayer: SMPlayer - General Info :) hope this helps