Icaros can provide Windows Explorer thumbnails, for essentially any video media format supported by FFmpeg,
this includes popular filetypes such as: Mkv, Flv, Avi, Mp4, Mov, Rmvb, M2ts, Ogm etc.

Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions.

Icaros can provide Windows Explorer thumbnails, for essentially any video media format supported by FFmpeg,
this includes popular filetypes such as: Mkv, Flv, Avi, Mp4, Mov, Rmvb, M2ts, Ogm etc.

Besides the FFmpeg supported filetypes, Icaros also contains custom parsers,
which can produce Cover Art thumbnails for Mkv, Flac, Ape, and Mpc files.

Icaros also provides Windows Explorer properties for the following popular filetypes:
Mkv, Flv, Ogm, Ogv, Ogg, Flac, Ape, and Mpc.

Changelog


Highlights
- Added support for thumbnailing in Windows XP (tested on SP3)
- Improved Windows 8 support
- Thumbnail Provider component completely rewritten in C++
- Icaros no longer requires VC++ Redist runtimes to run
- Added FLAC, APE and MPC thumbnailing
- Added FLAC, APE and MPC properties

Thumbnail Provider
- Improved Thumbnailing speed
- Improved security
- Improved Swf thumbnailing
- Reduced space used in the thumbnail cache by 25%
- All extensions are now optional in the thumbnail provider
- Can now use embedded cover art in MKVs as thumbnails
- Can now thumbnail video shortcuts
- Can now thumbnail files on removable media (e.g. DVDs)
- Can now thumbnail files in 32-bit dialogs on 64-bit systems
- Added option to prefer landscape covers, in files with multiple covers
- Fixed various rare bugs and thumbnail scenarios
- Changed incomplete file handling
- Updated FFmpeg
- Fixed Windows 8 Filetype association blocking issue
- Improved registration, preventing various situations where Icaros would be blocked
- Fixed hang on certain incomplete files
- Fixed corrupted thumbnails in certain TS files
- Fixed thumbnailing of MKVs with multiple video streams

Property Handler
- Added custom track info properties to MKV, OGM, and FLV
- Fixed and added some formats in the mkv property parser
- Make sure custom prop lists are not removed or overwritten
- Fixed audio channel info for matroska files with no channels property
- Fixed channels showing for consecutive audio tracks

IcarosConfig
- Fixed property filetype checkboxes
- IcarosConfig automatically downloads and installs missing wic library on XP SP2
- Added tooltips for the 'advanced' controls
- Fixed offset and cover options for non-admin users
- Rearrange the GUI slighty to accommodate the recently added filetypes
- Added several commandline options to IcarosConfig (Use 'IcarosConfig /?' to see them all)
- All advanced options can be enabled/disabled at all times
- Catch exception when trying to delete the thumbnail cache, while it is in use
- Improved cache clearing routine slightly
- Major internal refactoring of IcarosConfig

Installer
- Installer updated and improved.
- Installer can now activate icaros on completion
- Installer now supports silent install (Silent installs automatically activates Icaros)

Miscellaneous
- Fixed minor memory leaks
- Many minor fixes, improvements and structural changes

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