Thumbnails for video podcasts?
I have a 2 year old son. He watches the Sesame Street video podcasts on his iPad. Obviously, he cannot read yet, so he selects the podcasts he wants to watch based on the video thumbnails. He has been doing this on the Video app.
Unfortunately, I have made the mistake of upgrading to iOS 7, and the podcasts are no longer detected by the Video app. He now has to watch using the Podcast app - which does not show thumbnails!! So I have a frustrated child, who now clicks on 100 different videos trying to find the one he wants to watch. It's either downgrade the iOS, or he has to start learning how to read (I've tried. It's not easy at 2 years old - as he has just started learning the sounds for A - J).
OR is there a way to display thumbnails on the podcast app?
Hi Sally, same problem here.
As Mavericks is my first Apple OS I can't help myself much....
What I've found out so far;
Mp4 does work.
Perian codec used to do the trick supposedly even when Quicktime is not the default player, unfortunately it is not supported anymore, no info if a potential replacement fixes thumbs issue.
Thumbsup didn't work for me, maybe also a Mavericks issue if someone knows ? Drag & drop solutions where additional files are created won't help me much anyway as I'm trying to fix a 1000+ horror movie library and I refuse to use crap like Plex. What we need is something like Babelsoft Media Preview, I use it on Win7 it's perfect
Any help is welcome !
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