Go to Preferences / Viewer / Viewer Plugins and configure the Movie plugin.
You can either experiment with the thumbnail settings there or turn off thumbnail generation entirely (in which case Opus will fall back on the same code that Windows Explorer uses).
If you configure the Movie plugin not to make thumbnails, it will be done by the Windows shell instead, and will give you the same as you get in Explorer, if that's what you want. (You can install shell extensions which change how mkv thumbnails are generated if needed.)