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tshorts
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Preview doesn't work

Post by tshorts »

I don't get previews in the Preview Pane (Windows 10. XYplorer version 22.10).

I got "playing failed: automation error" and no video showing up, only a XYplorer-thumbnail.
After some searching i tried re-install/update K-lite codec pack (Mega version).

Now I get a grey box, white box, or no box, and sound when pressing play. But no video. Neither in Preview Pane nor in Info Panel.
MPC-HC is my default video player and plays videos fine.
Preview of txt-files work.

Tried tweaks in LAV, reboots etc. But same issue. (edit: now tried to add "Full Screen Preview" and "Floating Preview" buttons to the toolbar, and pressed them. In both cases the the thumbnail of the video file is show, not the video)


Sorry if it is a newbie question, I just installed XYplorer for the first time. Seems to be exactly what I've been looking for for many years. But need to get this preview thing going.

Anyone know how to get this working?

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What type of video files? (What extensions?)

tshorts
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Re: Preview doesn't work

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I've tried with mp4, avi, and mkv. They all act the same way.

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Re: Preview doesn't work

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Weird. Did you restart Windows after installing K-lite?

tshorts
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Re: Preview doesn't work

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Yes, PC is rebooted.

I found this in another thread:
text get("previewhandler", "mp4");

And I get: "No preview handler found for mp4 files."
Same with AVI.

Can I somehow point to video handler manually somewhere in config?

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Re: Preview doesn't work

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Configuration | Preview | Previewed Formats
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[x] User-Defined Preview Handlers

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Re: Preview doesn't work

Post by tshorts »

Thanks. VLC seems to be the only media player that is downloadable as MSI to get GUID, but VLC only showed thumbnail.

But I got preview to work. After installing Windows Media Player from Windows-settings I had to delete the XYplorer.ini file for it to work.


Thanks for the help folks!

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