| Display .mov thumbnails in Windows XP (9 Comments) | Thursday, Mar 13, 2008 7:46 am |
My Panasonic digital camera records movies in .mov format. I don't know why, and I can't change it. The problem is that Windows XP doesn't show thumbnails for .mov files, which is an issue when I want to look through my pictures and videos with the whole "View → Thumbnails" option selected. I searched the internet for a solution several months ago and didn't find anything. I just searched again this morning and found a pretty simple solution, though I'm surprised at how relatively obscure it is and how hard it was to find. Here's what you need to do:
- Download QuickThumb.dll from here.
- Go to Start → Run and type
regsvr32 QuickThumb.dll. - If there's an error, download msvcr70.dll from here and repeat step 2.
- Go to a directory with .mov files, switch to thumbnail display, and possibly press F5 to refresh.
I can't believe I didn't discover this sooner. That really annoys me. And it annoys me that the internet wasn't much help for a while.
(I'm hosting all necessary files here.)
The .txt you include is a bit more accurate. I believe both files need to be places in c:\windows\system32 and then the command you run is regsvr32 QuickThumb.dll; WITHOUT '/u' (which i think is the switch to UNregister..)
Thanks a lot for putting this together. Very handy :)
Hmm, you're probably right. I changed it in the post above. Thanks.
How cool is this!
Struggled without for years.
Makes life so much easier!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
I just wanted you to know that you probably just saved me a freelance video editing job... I had been struggling with this for days and was almost ready to give up. Thank you so much!
Awesome! Glad my little discoveries are actually helping people.
Fantastic. Thank you.
One problem though: when using the Search function in Explorer (with View set to Thumbnail) Explorer crashes just as the last thumbnail is displayed. (Windows XP)
Hmm that's a shame. I should've said at the beginning that I can't guarantee it won't make your computer blow up.
For video files you can use Thumbnailer from CapTrue. It is a WMP plugin, and when you using it you can assign ANY frame of your video as a thumbnail. Works with .mov and .mkv either.
http://www.captrue.com/thumbnailer.html
Thanks!!!!!!!! por fin encontré la solución a mi problema...!!!!
GRACIaS!!!!
problema para ver vistas miniatura en el explorador de windows xp, se ralentiza, video .mov