Icaros is a collection of Shell Extensions for Windows, thanks to which you can view thumbnails for virtually any video file on your hard disk, regardless of its extension. This software provides thumbnails for any video whose format supports FFmpeg, including MKV, FLV, AVI, MP4, MOV, RMVB, M2TS, OGM, and many others. Icaros is pretty simple to use. The program's interface is divided into four different tabs: Thumbnails, Properties, Cache and Tools. In the first tab, Thumbnails, you will see a list of all supported extensions, and, more importantly, you will be able to add new extensions manually. To activate the program's features, just click on the tab and you will see its status change from Disabled to Enabled. In the Properties tab, on the other hand, you can enable the option to view additional information about the video files directly from Windows Explorer. The program will show you information such as audio or video file length, as well as video dimensions, or the name of the artist (if entered in the metadata). Again, enabling this option is as easy as one click. The third tab, Cache, is very important. Here, you can set which directory you want to store the entire Icaros cache in and how much space you want it to take up. You can also exclude different file types from the cache. It is important to note that you will need at least 1 GB of space specifically for this folder. Download Icaros if you have a large library of offline media and want to manage it more conveniently. Thanks to this simple program, you will be able to obtain much more data regarding all your movies, songs and discs directly from Windows Explorer. Its simple interface also makes enabling and disabling its features very easy.
