FLV and 3GP thumbnail preview in Windows XP

A couple weeks ago, i wrote a tutorial on how to get Windows Media Player 11 to play FLV files. I received some emails asking how to get a thumbnail preview of FLV file in Windows XP and here’s the answer.

Since Windows explorer does not generate Thumbnail previews of FLVs, we need to install an application that can. That application is K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. Download the program(17.1 MB) and run the installtion. When you get to the Additional Tasks Menu, scroll down to “Make thumbnail gerneration possible for the following file types” and select the formats that you like special FLV.

That’s it, just complete the installtion and now windows explore become capable of generating FLV thumbnails for flv, mp4, hdmov, ogm, ts, m2ts, 3gp rmvb files