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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, and Mpc files. Icaros also provides Windows Explorer properties for the following popular filetypes: Mkv, Flv, Ogm, Ogv, Ogg, Flac, Ape, and Mpc. Requires .NET.

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Latest version

3.3.3 (October 20, 2024)



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Software License

Freeware (Free download and usage!)



Supported operating systems

WinWindows




Version history / Release notes / Changelog / What's New


Icaros v.3.3.3 Final

Added support for VVC decoding
Added support for thumbnailing 'tiled' HEIC files
Added thumbnailing support of INDD files with an embedded preview
Added thumbnailing support of EPS files with an embedded preview
Added thumbnailing support for WEBP, AVIF and HEIC covers in several audio filetypes
Added AVIF, AI, INDD, EPS, PX, EXR and PDXPRJ to the 'Common' and 'Most Known' presets
Improved HEIF/AVIF thumbnailing support
Improved thumbnailing of AI files
Fixed thumbnailing of several HEVC files
Fixed colors in EXR thumbnails (changed to sRGB color space)
Fixed thumbnailing of PXZ files
Fixed aspect ratio for some MP4, MOV (and more) files in the MS Photos app
Fixed MP4 'creation date' property being off by 1 hour
Fixed some unicode characters showing up wrong in properties
Fixed rare MKV crash (Thank you Brett! ^__^)
Fixed issue where Icaros failed to return properties of large files (4GB+) (Thank you dgonyier! ^__^)
Fixed several UNC Icaros Cache locations issues
The 'View Size' column on the Locations tab will now only show up in Windows 7 and below, as it is not relevant on newer versions of Windows
PDF, AI, EPS, INDD, HEIC, HEIF, AVIF, EXR and PSXPRJ are now registered as image formats
A couple of minor improvements
Updated GCC
Updated FFmpeg

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Icaros Thumbnail Provider, shark007 Icaros



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Rating by A user :) on Jul 6, 2024 Version: 3.3.2 OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Icaros fixed all the extension-related (.avif and some others) issues that I had in less than a minute of configuring it. Can't recommend it enough.

Review by ButteredBreadT1000 on Jul 3, 2024 Version: Icaros 3.3.2 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




icaros sensei

Review by Said Torres on Jul 2, 2024 Version: 3.3.3 OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




YES! Whoever made this software you are GENIUSES!

Review by Dude on May 19, 2024 Version: latest OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




oh my god. You added support for notch dfx files. Words cant explain how friggin thankful I am, I love you SO SO SO SO SO MUCH HOLY SHIT

Review by Glass Crane on May 10, 2024 Version: the newest OS: Windows 11 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10


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