Icaros
Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions, which is capable of providing Windows Explorer thumbnails for essentially any video media filetype.
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Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Thumbnail preview
Windows Explorer Extension- Thumbnails
- Shell Extension Replacement
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What is Icaros?
Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions, which is capable of providing Windows Explorer thumbnails for essentially any video media filetype.
Icaros can provide Windows Explorer thumbnails, for essentially any video media format supported by FFmpeg which includes popular filetypes such as: Mkv, Flv, Avi, Mp4, Mov, Rmvb, M2ts, Ogm etc.
It is capable of thumbnailing just about any file by adding its extension(s) to the optional filetypes box and re-activating Icaros.
Icaros information
Developed by
Xanashi Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
6 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Doesn't produce thumbnails for webm's. I saw a thread on their forum from 2020 saying many file types not working correctly. You cant make a new account on the forum. I suspect its discontinued.
Supported extensions: AVI, FLV, M2TS, MKV, MOV, MP4, OGM, RMVB. This means the app isn't an alternative to DarkThumbs, which offers previews of EPUB, FB2, Kindle ebooks (AZW, AZW3, and KFX), CBZ, and CBR files. It's an add-on, but not an alternative.
It works not only thumbnail for video files, but also cover pic for audio files (ogg etc). Also you can view artist, album, length etc info in explorer for every audio type.