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I am looking for a windows video player with the seek preview feature, like the one in the Hulu player described as follows: "Seek Preview displays a preview thumbnail when the mouse hovers over a spot in the timeline". Any ideas? I haven't noticed this feature in the major video apps like WMP and VLC.
Greg
Posted 2011-11-21T09:17:22.703
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MPC BE (Media Player Classic Black Edition) has that feature. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/
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user530131
Posted 2011-11-21T09:17:22.703
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You could use a video editor instead. A lightweight one. Say, something which is only meant for basic cutting and slicing. Absent a truly hardcore nonlinear video player (tm) it's what I am personally using. I would recommend Solveigmm Video Splitter, because it's relatively fast.
I suspect online services like Hulu or YouTube can be much faster about seek previews because they cache the previews. Solveigmm unfortunately does not do this. You'll have to wait for the previews to load everytime you load the video file, and everything you zoom in to a level further than you have been working at.
GuoLiang Oon
Posted 2011-11-21T09:17:22.703
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I’m voting this up because I did something similar. I recently got a TV tuner for my desktop, but I cannot run the TV program because it requires .NET 4.5 which I don’t have/want installed. I use VirtualDub to watch TV with the tuner, but then I wrote an elaborate AutoHotkey script to turn GraphEdit of all things into a full-fledge, feature-rich TV-viewing program. ☺ – Synetech – 2012-12-03T00:53:29.047
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Global Pot Player has this feature as well - i think it works better than it does in MPC-BE and KM Player. You can find it here
to enable go to Preferences...playback....display thumbnail previews.
micneamol
Posted 2011-11-21T09:17:22.703
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I tried KMPlayer, MPC BE and Pot Player under Windows 10. Found Pot Player to be the best, thanks for the suggestion! – starpause – 2017-06-04T20:56:55.960
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New KMPlayer has this feature.
You can move the mouse cursor on the time bar to view a thumbnail of that position right away on the screen. The video itself plays on, and the main purpose of the feature is to provide you with better seeking options in the player as you can use it to preview the video position without jumping to it right away.
Change log : http://www.kmplayer.com/update/update/main/11
totti
Posted 2011-11-21T09:17:22.703
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Could you give a bit more detail to this answer. Have you used this application before? Thanks – Matthew Williams – 2014-04-03T12:47:53.893
what version of windows video player do you currently have? – James Hopkins – 2011-11-21T09:40:30.603