Media Previews not working (all audio and video files)

[tom_01]

For all audio and video files I get this error: "playing failed: Automation error"

For videos, I can see the first frame as a thumbnail and in the preview window. They just won't play.

[tom_01]

If I switch the default media play to Windows Media Player, previews work fine. But I would prefer VLC as the default, which apparently won't let XYPlorer preview media. Any settings I change to allow this?

[tom_01]

I installed the 32 bit version of VLC. I was hoping to use VLC as a User-Defined Preview Handler (for media files). However, I cannot find the GUID for VLC... Has anyone done this? Are there alternative media preview handlers to Windows Media Player?

[Nighted]

By "preview handler", I assume you mean thumbnails only. For previews only there is Icaros Shell Extensions. It can be installed, or just unpacked and registered using the IcarosConfig.exe. It should handle previews alongside VLC (I have never installed VLC). I use Light Alloy with Icaros and have ZERO problems previewing media of any kind.

If you can not playback audio you could use a codec pack. K-lite is the most common and trusted. Video I think can only be previewed using Windows Media Player and by using a third party player that ability is broken. If anyone knows a way around this I'd be curious to know as well.

[tom_01]

No, not for thumbnails only. I mean the actual preview window that should play video content.

[highend]

Why don't you just use a portable file association in XYplorer like:

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"VLC" {:Video}>::openwith "<path to VLC>\VLC.exe", , <curitem>;

and maybe portable file icons as well like:

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"VLC" {:Video}><xyicons>\your_own_vlc_icon.ico

[tom_01]

Why don't you just use a portable file association in XYplorer like:

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"VLC" {:Video}>::openwith "<path to VLC>\VLC.exe", , <curitem>;

and maybe portable file icons as well like:

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"VLC" {:Video}><xyicons>\your_own_vlc_icon.ico

In this case the XYPlorer would preview video with Windows Media Player, right? This is my best option so far. I didn't know about the portable icons, which is great.

The videos do preview with Windows Media Player, however they are not autoplaying even though I have that setting ticked on. Any ideas?

[Nighted]

The videos do preview with Windows Media Player, however they are not autoplaying even though I have that setting ticked on. Any ideas?

Well, if you decide to use VLC using PFA (portable file association) in XY, then you could set WMP as the system default again. This should enable video previews.