XnView Software

The video display settings for preview seems to be buggy / inconsistent.

More precisely, the "Show first frame for videos" setting and the preview for video files setting in the file list doesn't work as expected.

1. "Show first frame for videos" in preview settings doesn't do anything (the video player is always shown in preview) as long as you have enabled preview for video files in the file list.

2. Disabling preview for video files in file list doesn't actually disable the preview as long as you have "Show first frame for videos" selected in preview settings. (In this case first frame is shown in the preview.)

3. To disable the preview for video files entirely you need to unselect both "Show first frame for videos" and preview for video files in the file list, but when you do that this happens to the preview while video file is selected: http://i34.tinypic.com/2i9m1rt.png


Here's how I think these settings should work.

"Show first frame for videos" setting should only change the way videos are shown in preview and it should have nothing to do wherever preview is disabled / enabled for video files.

Preview for video files setting in the file list should simply disable / enable the preview for video files regardless of "Show first frame for videos" setting. Just like all the other preview settings in the file list.

I have no problem with "Show first frame for videos", but if thumbnail is already in DB, it will be shown

Else i have option/View/Misc/Play video-audio, and disable option/Filelist/Audio-Video for preview, and i have no video or audio in preview

xnview wrote:I have no problem with "Show first frame for videos", but if thumbnail is already in DB, it will be shown

Else i have option/View/Misc/Play video-audio, and disable option/Filelist/Audio-Video for preview, and i have no video or audio in preview

I don't understand. Is first frame always shown in preview if the Video thumbnail is already in DB? Because I don't think it does.

Try this:

• Enable preview for Video files in the File list settings.
  Enable "Show first frame for videos" in the Preview settings.
  Preview any video file in browser.
  Result: XnView show video player in preview and not the first frame like it should. [xnview.ini]

Then try this:

• Disable preview for Video files in the File list settings.
  Enable "Show first frame for videos" in the Preview settings.
  Preview any video file in browser.
  Result: Now XnView shouldn't show preview for video files at all, but XnView will show first frame in preview. [xnview.ini]

Only after you disable both, preview for Video files in the File list settings and "Show first frame for videos" in the Preview settings, XnView doesn't show preview for video files at all.

But even with video preview disabled entirely you still get buggy preview area (see the pic in first post), because XnView doesn't disable the preview tabs if you have them enabled. [xnview.ini]