Just installed Windows 10 (cutting edge, I know) and the latest Directory Opus. I have a couple of related questions about video thumbnails...
Can we get the viewer pane to display a thumbnail or pause at a certain part of the video (instead of default playback)?
I've tried disabling "automatically play movies" in the movies plugin. I also checked "generate thumbnails" & "skip over black frames". But all this does is show a pitch-black paused position at "00:00:00" in the videos.
In Windows Explorer, I could use a program called 'Icaros' to generate thumbnails from a certain time range in videos: Icaros 3.2.1 Free Download - VideoHelp
Does Directory Opus get its thumbnails the same way Windows Explorer does? If so, then I think this program could work with Opus.
If not, is there some other way to get Opus to generate video thumbnails from a certain section of the video (start, middle, end)?
If you disable the Movie plugin's thumbnails, Opus will get the same ones that File Explorer gets (including using Icaros, if that's installed).
If you want movie thumbnails shown in the preview pane, disable the Movie plugin entirely. You may also need to configure the ActiveX + Preview + Office + Web plugin to not handle movie files, so that they fall through to trying shell thumbnails.
Thanks Leo! Going to try your suggestions and try to integrate Icaros thumbnails with Opus.
This is a longshot, but just putting it out there if it's possible to implement...would be great if we could set the movie plugin to pause at a relative location (start, middle, end) or time (5 seconds after start, 5 seconds before end, etc.).
Makes it really easy to identify videos when filenames are gibberish or thumbnails don't do a good job.
In my case...I have OBS recordings with dates as filenames, and only the first few seconds contain specific production/identification information. Would be cool to click these videos and see that info immediately in the Directory Opus viewer pane.