View -> Thumbnails, when source is video:

[therube]

View -> Thumbnails


Was thinking...

if the item is video:
& you also had set, View -> Thumbnails,
generate a thumb from the video ?

(yes there are programs out there,
& in the past i've dabbled with dragging sets of files,
from Everything into thumbnail program,
but i never really got anything meaningful out of it)

i'm /thinking/ - though not sure ?
that if you could have thumbs of video:
like you can with pic:

there might be a benefit there ?
(& granted, maybe even of limited benefit)

(& to show how limited, i did a Find, /cards which found "card game",
which /was/ what i was after, to begin with .)

[void]

Everything doesn't know what a video is.

Surely there's existing third party thumbnail handlers that generate a thumbnail from the video source?

[therube]

Surely there's existing third party thumbnail handlers that generate a thumbnail from the video source?

yes there are programs out there,
& in the past i've dabbled with dragging sets of files,
from Everything into thumbnail program,
but i never really got anything meaningful out of it

I'm not looking to make thumbnails, per se.
More to display a thumbnail, just like is done with pic:, though for video: - with the hope that enough information is provided in the thumb to be beneficial.

As it is, I virtually never use Thumbnail view (almost exclusively details), though in the odd instance, having thumbs of video: might be of benefit (in particular where then name doesn't particularly reflect content, or when name is wrongly named).
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[NotNull]

To my best of knowledge, those thumbnail handlers generate these thumbnails on-the-fly.
Or read them from the thumbnail cache if generated earlier.

See for example [Suggestion] Jump to a good frame for video preview thumbnail

[therube]

I'll note that Preview Pane (which I also rarely use) is fine, except you only see 1 item at a time.
Where a Thumbnail view would display multiple thumbs making for easier comparisons between files.

[horst.epp]

For me thumbnails for videos are displayed fine in Everything
and all file managers.
May be a result of the K-Lite Standard codec package

[therube]

My issue was, Thumbnails, what is needed to display?

So now I'll have to see, now that I can see thumbnails, how it pans out in practice.