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A collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions.

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winget install --id Xanashi.Icaros
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About Icaros

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, Mpc and several other filetypes. Icaros also provides Windows Explorer properties for the following popular fil...

What's new in 3.3.6.000

Good afternoon Everyone, I have another small build for you today. FFmpeg has recently added support for animated WEBP, and of course this means that Icaros support these files now as well. Besides animated WEBP, this build mostly focuses on fixing a number of issues posted on the issue tracker. As always, Thank you all for posting feedback, and giving support and donations! I appreciate it so much! I hope you all enjoy the new release! ❤️ Icaros v.3.3.6 Final - Added support for Animated WEBP thumbnailing - Added support for UTF-8 filenames in CBX files (Comic book files) - Added support for rotation of MKV thumbnails - Added support for "Sort title" property in MKV files - Fixed some wav files not showing properties - Fixed some old h264 files producing green thumbnails - Fixed default level of MKV tags (now set to 50) - Updated FFmpeg

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Version history

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3.3.6.000 Unknown Good afternoon Everyone, I have another small build for you today. FFmpeg has recently added support for animated WEBP, and of course this means that Icaros support these files now as well. Besides animated WEBP, this bu...
3.3.5.000 Unknown Hi Everyone, There were a an issue with build 3.3.4, where IcarosConfig were crashing on startup on Windows 8.1 and below. This build should fix that, and also contain a couple more fixes I got in yesterday (see changelo...
3.3.3.301 Unknown Good Afternoon Everyone, I have a slightly smaller release for you today. It mainly focuses on updating libraries and fixing a number a bugs, that was reported on the issue tracker. I consider the release completely stab...
3.3.3.0 Unknown Good Afternoon Everyone, It's finally time for another stable release. I've only made a few changes since the last Beta, here they are: - Added thumbnailing support for AVIF and HEIC covers in several audio filetypes - F...
3.3.2.303 Unknown Good Afternoon Everyone, This should be the last beta release, before I release 3.3.3 final, which I hope to do soon. It mostly just contains bug fixes and small improvements. Let me know if you find any regressions or n...
3.3.2.302 Unknown Good Afternoon Everyone, I have another release today, adding thumbnailing support for EPS and INDD files, and a fix for the thumbnailing of 'tiled' HEIC files, that was reported with the previous Beta. Be sure to report...
3.3.2.301 Unknown Good Afternoon Everyone, I apologize once again for the long time periods between releases. I've been dealing with a lot of IRL things, that has made it hard to find time to work on Icaros. I still have some nice feature...
3.3.2.0 Unknown Good Afternoon Everyone, We're closing in on the end of the year and I somehow managed to get out one more 2023 release of Icaros. This time I'm skipping the Beta phase, as I don't believe any of the changes will cause a...
3.3.1.0 Unknown Good Afternoon Everyone, Here is the final release of 3.3.1. It's not a huge release, but there have been a handful of bug fixes since the last Beta release. I will post the changelog between the last beta and this relea...
3.3.0.0 Unknown [Major Changes] - Added support for MP4 properties (incl. mov, 3gp, 3g2, mj2, psp, m4b, ism, ismv, f4v, m4a isma) - Added support for AVIF thumbnailing - Added support for TGA thumbnailing - Added thumbnailing of AI file...