bizzybody Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Is there a fix to make Explorer in XP display tag data, resolution etc for file types such as MP4, MKV and others? In Details view it shows the information for AVI, MP3 and a few other types, but not for many newer formats of audio and video that came along after the release of Windows XP.It *should* be able to show such information for any media file for which codecs are installed, but it doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen2 Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 To my knowledge, there isn't any XP extension that would do the same for mkv/mp4 (because for avi/mp3 it is handled by the MS shmedia.dll). But you could try mediainfo that can be integrated to explorer (adding a context menu). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasz86 Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Couldn't you just add new registry entries for those extensions?This is what shmedia.dll adds:[version]signature="$CHICAGO$"[RegDll]AddReg=Registry[UnregDll]DelReg=Registry[Registry]HKCR,"SystemFileAssociations\.wma\shellex\PropertyHandler",,,%CLSID_AudioMediaProperties%HKCR,"SystemFileAssociations\.mp3\shellex\PropertyHandler",,,%CLSID_AudioMediaProperties%HKCR,"SystemFileAssociations\.wmv\shellex\PropertyHandler",,,%CLSID_VideoMediaProperties%HKCR,"SystemFileAssociations\.asf\shellex\PropertyHandler",,,%CLSID_VideoMediaProperties%HKCR,"SystemFileAssociations\.wav\shellex\PropertyHandler",,,%CLSID_AVWavProperties%HKCR,"SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler",,,%CLSID_AVAviProperties%HKCR,"SystemFileAssociations\.dvr-ms\shellex\PropertyHandler",,,%CLSID_VideoMediaProperties%HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_AudioMediaProperties%",,,"Audio Media Properties Handler"HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_AudioMediaProperties%\InProcServer32",,%REGEXSZ%,"%_SYS_MOD_PATH%"HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_AudioMediaProperties%\InProcServer32","ThreadingModel",,"Both"HKLM,"%SMWCVSEA%","%CLSID_AudioMediaProperties%",,"Audio Media Properties Handler"HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_VideoMediaProperties%",,,"Video Media Properties Handler"HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_VideoMediaProperties%\InProcServer32",,%REGEXSZ%,"%_SYS_MOD_PATH%"HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_VideoMediaProperties%\InProcServer32","ThreadingModel",,"Both"HKLM,"%SMWCVSEA%","%CLSID_VideoMediaProperties%",,"Video Media Properties Handler"HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_AVWavProperties%",,,"Wav Properties Handler"HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_AVWavProperties%\InProcServer32",,%REGEXSZ%,"%_SYS_MOD_PATH%"HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_AVWavProperties%\InProcServer32","ThreadingModel",,"Both"HKLM,"%SMWCVSEA%","%CLSID_AVWavProperties%",,"Wav Properties Handler"HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_AVAviProperties%",,,"Avi Properties Handler"HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_AVAviProperties%\InProcServer32",,%REGEXSZ%,"%_SYS_MOD_PATH%"HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_AVAviProperties%\InProcServer32","ThreadingModel",,"Both"HKLM,"%SMWCVSEA%","%CLSID_AVAviProperties%",,"Avi Properties Handler"HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_AVMidiProperties%",,,"Midi Properties Handler"HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_AVMidiProperties%\InProcServer32",,%REGEXSZ%,"%_SYS_MOD_PATH%"HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_AVMidiProperties%\InProcServer32","ThreadingModel",,"Both"HKLM,"%SMWCVSEA%","%CLSID_AVMidiProperties%",,"Midi Properties Handler"; CLSID_VideoThumbnailHKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_VideoThumbnail%",,,"Video Thumbnail Extractor"HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_VideoThumbnail%\InProcServer32",,%REGEXSZ%,"%_SYS_MOD_PATH%"HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_VideoThumbnail%\InProcServer32","ThreadingModel",,"Apartment"HKLM,"%SMWCVSEA%","%CLSID_VideoThumbnail%",,"Video Thumbnail Extractor"HKCR,".mpeg\ShellEx\%IID_IExtractImage%",,,%CLSID_VideoThumbnail%HKCR,".mpe\ShellEx\%IID_IExtractImage%",,,%CLSID_VideoThumbnail%HKCR,".mpg\ShellEx\%IID_IExtractImage%",,,%CLSID_VideoThumbnail%HKCR,".asf\ShellEx\%IID_IExtractImage%",,,%CLSID_VideoThumbnail%HKCR,".asx\ShellEx\%IID_IExtractImage%",,,%CLSID_VideoThumbnail%HKCR,".avi\ShellEx\%IID_IExtractImage%",,,%CLSID_VideoThumbnail%HKCR,".wmv\ShellEx\%IID_IExtractImage%",,,%CLSID_VideoThumbnail%[Strings]REGEXSZ = 0x00020000SMWCVSEA = "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Approved"IID_IExtractImage = "{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}"CLSID_AudioMediaProperties = "{875CB1A1-0F29-45de-A1AE-CFB4950D0B78}"CLSID_VideoMediaProperties = "{40C3D757-D6E4-4b49-BB41-0E5BBEA28817}"CLSID_AVWavProperties = "{E4B29F9D-D390-480b-92FD-7DDB47101D71}"CLSID_AVAviProperties = "{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}"CLSID_AVMidiProperties = "{A6FD9E45-6E44-43f9-8644-08598F5A74D9}"CLSID_VideoThumbnail = "{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen2 Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 (edited) I'm pretty sure shmedia.dll wouldn't be natively able to handle mkv and mp4 perhaps haali matroska splitter can help. Edited November 22, 2012 by allen2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizzybody Posted November 23, 2012 Author Share Posted November 23, 2012 (edited) Here's a shell extension that adds details view data for M4A files. http://whitebear.ch/music.htmThat's one, how many other formats that XP doesn't have the built in capability to do that for? Looks like a project... "Further Development: Perhaps I will extend the library to handle other music file types; possible candidates are .mp4, .m4b and .m4v; please inform me if you have a concrete interest in these or other (MPEG-4) file types."Perhaps the author might release the source code so others can extend it to cover many other media types, and make a 64 bit version. Ehhhh, probably not. Wants a donation of 3 Euro.Or could the function be back ported from 32 bit Vista to XP? If so, that still would only cover the additional types Vista recognizes. Edited November 23, 2012 by bizzybody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sp0iLedBrAt Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 The K-Lite Codec Pack offers thumbnail integration for MKV and other video file types. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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