I've noticed it's possible to go full screen when viewing images, via the separate viewer pane, but is there a similar way to preview video in full screen? I kind of miss Windows Explorer ability to go full screen by double-clicking video....but that's about ALL I miss about Windows Explorer.
It's not a dealbreaker but was just wondering if there's a way to preview video full screen that I'm not seeing?
Thanks in advance!
If Preferences / Viewer / Viewer Pane / Show control bar is on, there is a full-screen button on the toolbar:
Alternatively, if you disable the Movie plugin, Opus will play videos using the Windows Media Player ActiveX control, which you can double-click to make full-screen.
As a third alternative, you can make Opus use exactly the same movie viewer that Explorer uses by turning off the Movie plugin, then configuring the ActiveX + Preview + Office + Web plugin to use the Windows Media Player preview handler (different to the ActiveX control; in particular, you have to click to start playing each video):
Great stuff -- thank you!!
Just to confirm -- if I did select any of those alternatives, then Directory Opus would NOT generate thumbnails for movie files, correct? It would be pulling them from Windows Explorer, right?
In which case, I would just choose the first option, since this all started because Windows Explorer was rebuilding my cache from scratch upon startup each time.
That's correct.
I thought you might had already turned off the Generate Thumbnail option in the Movie plugin (from this thread, so whether the Movie plugin is enabled or disabled won't affect thumbnails; they're already coming from Explorer with that option (or the whole Movie plugin) disabled. But maybe you used one of the other options I mentioned instead and are still generating thumbnail via the Movie plugin, in which case you might not want to disable the plugin.
No, I DEFINITELY DO NOT want to disable the Movie plugin then.
As amazing and comprehensive as Directory Opus is, I primarily need it for thumbnail generation. I have 4 terrabytes of video and image--mainly video--that kept getting rebuilt at startup with Windows Explorer. A simple way of increasing the thumbnail cache size would solve my problems, but alas, no such solution exist. So much for registry tinkering.
Directory Opus gives me a thumbnail cache that I can control. For that alone, it will be worth it to me.
Thank you again:)
Regarding that other thread, your tip about selecting the 'skipping black frames' option did the trick for generating MKV thumbnails, so the Movie Plugin was good for me after that.
