thumbnailsvideowindows 7
When I open my video folder, the thumbnails aren't showing. Instead, the default VLC icon was being displayed. Other files and image thumbnails are being displayed properly, only the videos have problems.
The "always show icons, never thumbnails" option is unchecked.
What could be the problem?
I have also installed the K-lite codec pack, I tried clearing the thumbnail cache, but it's not working.
My problem is similar to this, but with videos: Windows 7: Image thumbnails fail to appear
Checking Always show icons, never thumbnails (in the folder options menu you see in the asker's screenshot), applying, unchecking and applying again, solved the problem for me.
Edit 9-12-2014: Additionally, if you go to Advanced system settings and enter the Performance settings tab, ensure that Save taskbar thumbnail previews and Show thumbnails instead of icons are selected in the available check boxes. This affects all folders globally, rather than doing it for each folder.
Two options:
Remove media preview, by typing in:
regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll
From this page:
Click Start>Run, type REGEDIT and click Ok. Then make your way to this InProcServer32 key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >SOFTWARE >Classes
CLSID > {87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}> InProcServer32
Right click the InProcServer32 key and choose Delete. And that's all there is to it. This will prevent Windows from loading shmedia.dll when you work with video files and thus you should no longer have problems deleting or moving any video files. Also if you have a video file you can't delete now, deleting this key will allow you to do so. If not, log out and log in again to delete the file.
Best Answer
I had the same problem. Just found this link about Media Preview, installed it and worked perfectly. My thumbnails are back:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mediapreview.html