how to install third party preview handler for autoplay?

[zencimenci]

sorry if this has already been asked a hundred times but how can i change the preview panel handler to a third party one? (mpv player in this case) i want it to autoplay when i go through my videos instead of constantly having to click on play each time i go to the next vid

also thanks devs for making this, everything has essentially replaced file explorer for me

[void]

Thank you for your feedback zencimenci,

I'm not aware of any auto-playing preview handlers.
If you find any, please post them here.



Everything does have support for WinMM autoplay.

To enable winmm:

• Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
  /winmm=1
• Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
• If successful, winmm=1 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

Selected files are auto-played.
Unselect the file to stop auto-playing.

Videos are supported, but there's not much support for positioning the window.

To disable winmm:

• Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
  /winmm=0
• Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
• If successful, winmm=0 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

winmm



The winmm feature has improved a lot in Everything 1.5.
It's easier to stop the play back by unselecting the file.

To enable winmm in Everything 1.5:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Advanced tab on the left.
• To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
  winmm
• Select: winmm
• Set the value to: true
• Click OK.

To disable winmm in Everything 1.5:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Advanced tab on the left.
• To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
  winmm
• Select: winmm
• Set the value to: false
• Click OK.

[zencimenci]

my question was mainly as to how to change the preview handler from the default video player to a different one (in my case mpv but it can be something different lime mpc/vlc)

[NotNull]

A preview handler is a special kind of viewer/player that has to follow specific rules to qualify as a preview handler.
Not every application provides a preview handler (most don't).

I skimmed the mpv documentation and it looks like mpv does not provide a preview handler.
Quite a few people asked for development of a vlc preview handler too, but that hasn't materialized either.


To make the default Windows preview handlers for videos and audio autoplay files, follow the winmm setting instruction by @void above.

[void]

It's not easy.



Everything will use the system preview handler associated with the file extension by default.

To set the system preview handler for a specific file extension:

From the Start menu, search for: regedit
Right click Registry Editor and click Run as administrator.
Navigate to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.html\ShellEx\{8895b1c6-b41f-4c1c-a562-0d564250836f}
(where .html is the desired file extension or create this key for a new file extension)
Set the (Default) data value to your preview handler CLSID.
(you can copy this from other extensions under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.ext\ShellEx\{8895b1c6-b41f-4c1c-a562-0d564250836f} )
The default handler for html files is: {f8b8412b-dea3-4130-b36c-5e8be73106ac}
This will render the html file as a normal web page.
If you wanted to preview html files as text, use the builtin text preview handler: {1531d583-8375-4d3f-b5fb-d23bbd169f22}



Everything 1.5 will have an option to override the system preview handlers with the advanced preview_handlers setting.

[zencimenci]

A preview handler is a special kind of viewer/player that has to follow specific rules to qualify as a preview handler.
Not every application provides a preview handler (most don't).

I skimmed the mpv documentation and it looks like mpv does not provide a preview handler.
Quite a few people asked for development of a vlc preview handler too, but that hasn't materialized either.


To make the default Windows preview handlers for videos and audio autoplay files, follow the winmm setting instruction by @void above.

what player can you recommend that will work? also, i tried the winmm setting and it doesnt autoplay mp4 files you still have to click the play button

i dont really mind what kind of player it is i just want the preview (alt+p) panel that shows up next to the thumbnails to autoplay my video files im sorry if im dragging this out but i dont get how its supposed to work i spend a couple hours going through the forum history to see if others have the same question but its all different and related to other stuff like the post above is about the html text editor i just want it to auto play vids

also thanks alot for the quick responses

[therube]

On my end, if I set, /winmm=1, & click on a (some, actually) [Win7] supported "movies", the movie does autoplay - not in the (Everything) Preview Pane itself, but in a separate (Everything) Window.

(On the limited files I have here, this only works for .mpg & .wmv.
If on a more recent OS, I'd think ? other file types would also work?

Also, no controls or anything like that, so it's rather devoid of "features".)

[void]

Just making a note here that winmm is really designed for audio files (not video files).

[spooky]

Was about to post something similar but I'll bump this one instead. Unrelated to winmm, it'd be cool to at least be able to control the play/pause of the preview with the spacebar.

[therube]

(The image, above, didn't show for me, so, https://i.imgur.com/D2LtzAZ.png.)

[spooky]

(The image, above, didn't show for me, so, https://i.imgur.com/D2LtzAZ.png.)

"Spacebar" is the key word in my comment!