Preserving thumbnails on video files

My computer changes the VLC icon to a thumbnail every time I open the folder in the finder. Can I change this so it retains the thumbnails as this would be quicker when there are many files???

APZ wrote:
My computer changes the VLC icon to a thumbnail every time I open the folder in the finder. Can I change this so it retains the thumbnails as this would be quicker when there are many files???
Leopard is strange in this way. I gave up figuring out how it works
Try this: Right click one of the video files and select open with other. Select some other app for the default and click to always use this app.
Now see if the thumbnails disappear.
If this works, the problem will be that VLC is no longer the default app and you will have to select it each time.

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Quicktime 7.7.5
Windows 7 service pack 1
Organizer will not show (or update) thumbnails from video files (.mts and .m4p) when file sizes are over 3.1 mb.
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geen nieuws
Just a longer add on to my post numbered 1.
What is the hard drive save location for your AVCHD.mp4 and AVCHD.mts files? If external hard drive, how is it formatted...NTFS or FAT32?
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The file created is indeed the one intended and in the correct folder. When I double-click on the file the video is played and the first thing I see is the title. So the video created has what I expect. Go figure.
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i mean:
the web server (which has ffmpeg installed) do the job for you...
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for the video. search on the web, you can easily find lots of stuff...
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