Quickview- alter its use of windows media player?
Posted: 21.10.2011, 15:25
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.
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.