I've made an interactive list that helps you find which viewers (etc.) are bundled with Opus and which add-ons are available to make Opus do more.
The list includes several plugins/features not mentioned here at the forum. (It also mentions some of the built-in functionality that doesn't depend on plugins.) Screenshots are included, where useful, to give you an idea of how things are before you install anything.
August 2018: Note that the list is quite out of date at the moment. I may update it in the future, time permitting, but it's still useful as it is; just remember it is not complete, the same as the forum's list of plugins.
You can filter the list to show just what interests you. For example, you can make it show only plugins which support 64-bit & USB mode, and don't come bundled with Opus, so that you don't waste time looking at things you already have or cannot use.
(Filtering requires Javascript. Without Javascript you'll get a static list with all of the information at once. By default much of the information is hidden so play with the filter to see the other details.)
It took ages to make. First time I've really used Javascript so I had to look up a lot of stuff. (And, despite all the fanfare, IE8 is still full of CSS rendering bugs you have to spend time working around or give up on .)
Testing all the plugins in different versions of Opus, checking capabilities and making all the screenshots took a while as well. Using Opus 6 again was a blast from the past.
That's enough web stuff for me for a while. Back to C++!
The list is now split into more categories and now includes several preview handlers and ActiveX controls which work within Opus, in addition to all the native Opus plugins and built-in features.
This has been updated for Opus 10, mainly to include the new archive format support (which has its own page now, too) and the improved audio tags support, plus mention of some other plugin updates.
Hi, is there a Text editor possible ? there is only a viewer for Txt, and trying to find the same but as an editor, but the plugins available is only for 32 bits. any other solution ?
thanks for the answer Leo ! it's not possible for your team to integrate for example notepad as a "viewer" and allowing editing and save as ? it's certainly much more complex than what i said lol, the already txt viewer is perfect, would love a save/save as option , maybe one day
Got it. The troubleshooting recommends setting Windows Media Player as the default in Windows Settings. Does that refer to the "Media Player" app that comes with Windows 11 or "Windows Media Player Legacy"?
That step probably won't help on Windows 11. Windows no longer includes DirectShow codecs which the current Movie plugin depends on, and repairing the filetypes for WMP won't help.
Either follow the Alternative movie playback plugins suggestion at the top of the guide to use something other than the Movie plugin, or install DirectShow codecs (e.g. ffdshow) to make the Movie plugin work.
In the future we'll update the Movie plugin so it can use the newer type of codec that Microsoft includes with Windows.
Thanks so much. Last question, is there any way to increase the size of the controls for the ActiveX video preview player? On high-DPI displays the controls are inconveniently small.
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thanks for the answer Leo ! it's not possible for your team to integrate for example notepad as a "viewer" and allowing editing and save as ? it's certainly much more complex than what i said lol, the already txt viewer is perfect, would love a save/save as option , maybe one day 