BabelSoft / 博语软件

After doing some research and trying out Icaros and some codec packs I've come to some conclusions: * Stick with Media Preview for video thumbnail generation * Use 3rd party video player: MPC-HC or VLC Player * Don't use codec packs as they are finicky and install PUPs by default (unwanted bundled s...

The reasons I used Media Preview were:

* Support for Image Thumbnail Handling (*.jpg etc)
* Icaros seems to support much fewer video file types
* Media Preview produced higher quality thumbnails

I'll try out the latest version of Icaros as part of Shark007's codecs for a while.

Any chance there'll be a new version early 2016?

Also this forum seems to be very unmoderated as fake/scam posts are appearing at the top :S

Nice to hear an update is on the way

I'd love to see a new stable version of this useful software soon in 2015

I live in Australia so my upload speed to way too slow to upload a 5GB file.

The Media Info Summary can be found here though: http://pastebin.com/qzWhBJaC

I think you're right about the files using HECV or similar.

Does Media Preview's thumbnailing work with 4K videos? I have about 8 4K videos in my testing on Windows 7 SP1 64-bit and when filling up the thumbnail cache it stops on the first 4K video I have. Also in Windows Explorer it renders thumbnails for all videos up to that file. Is this a known issue? I...

I'd like to suggest three borders to add to an upcoming version

Classic Image:


Classic Film Border:


Simple Rounded Corners:

Great to see, its lovely to see how responsive you are and support Media Preview I love your software

Ok thanks