Quickview- alter its use of windows media player?

[Jep]

First, thanks for a great tool. I use FreeCommander daily and shudder at the thought of doing without.


The Quickview feature of FreeCommander, ctrl-Q with a file selected gives a maximized preview of a .txt, .jpg, .html, or .avi in the other pane. A feature I use a lot.

With movie extensions, it doesn't work however. I get an error message: 'Cannot initialize Windows Media Player 6.4 ActiveX'.
Apparently Quickview relies on windows own media player and probably I've disabled that player as well as I could somehow- I rather use other players and WMP is pretty sneaky in making itself default player time and again.

Is there a way to make Freecommander use the engine of another player, like Mediaplayer Classic, or VLC?

If no, is there a way to make Quickview ignore movie extensions?

Thank you.

[Marek]

Is there a way to make Freecommander use the engine of another player, like Mediaplayer Classic, or VLC?

FreeCommander XE can use Windows Media Player 9.0.

If no, is there a way to make Quickview ignore movie extensions?

Open the viewer with F3 and go to Options->Configure... You can change/remove extensions for field "as Media".

[Jep]

Ah! Hidden prefs. Work great, now I don't have to be careful to not get that error any more.
Thank you for your quick response, Marek.
Now for me to get smart enough to make a plugin for VLC.. plz don't hold your breath.