Love RealPlayer video thumbnails but don't love RealPlayer

[conceptualclarity]

I used RealPlayer up until my hard drive crash in early 2014. I loved RealPlayer's individualized thumbnails for the video files. I also liked the little download prompt that hovered above a video.

But RealPlayer wouldn't let me see some of my videos unless I upgraded to the Pro version. That's one of the most rotten software tricks I have come across. Is there any way I can get thumbnails for videos as with RealPlayer without having to use that program? It sure beats having a uniform VLC icon for every video.




Computer: Dell System B3 Desktop
CPU: Intel Pentium 4-2667 (Northwood, D1)
2666 MHz (20.00x133.3) @ 2657 MHz (20.00x132.9)
Motherboard: DELL 0G1548
Chipset: Intel 845GEV (Brookdale-GEV) + ICH4
Memory: 2048 MBytes @ 166 MHz, 2.5-3-3-7
- 1024 MB PC3200 DDR-SDRAM - Kingston K
Graphics: Intel 82845G/GL/GV Graphics Controller [DELL]
Intel i845G(L) Integrated, 64 MB
Drive: ST380011A, 78.1 GB, E-IDE (ATA-6)
Drive: HGST HTS545050A7E380, 488.4 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s <-> USB
Drive: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-252S, CD-R Writer
Sound: Creative Technology SB Live! Series Audio Processor
Network: RealTek Semiconductor RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet NIC [A/B/C]
Network: Broadcom 4401 10/100 Integrated Controller
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Build 2600 SP3
Antivirus: Advanced SystemCare Ultimate 8
Firewall: Windows Firewall

 

[kiric96]

actually if you install K-lite code pack and you can enable thumbnails using windows media player capabilities plus the fact that WMP will be able to play more formats, the downside here is as they are codecs you may face some problems, but at least for me i have 3 years using this pack and no problem so far

you would get something like this