A collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions.
Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions.
Icaros can provide Windows Explorer thumbnails, for essentially any video media format supported by FFmpeg, this includes popular filetypes such as：Mkv, Flv, Avi, Mp4, Mov, Rmvb, M2ts, Ogm etc.
Besides the FFmpeg supported filetypes, Icaros also contains custom parsers, which can produce Cover Art thumbnails for Mkv, Flac, Ape, Mpc and several other filetypes.
Icaros also provides Windows Explorer properties for the following popular filetypes：Mkv, Mk3d, Mp4, Mov, Webm, Ogm, Ogg, Flv, Avi, Rm, Rmvb, Flac, Opus, Spx, Ape, Mp3, Mpc, Mka, Tak, Tta, Ofr, Wav and more.
Properties refer to the info shown for each file in Explorer, such as length, width, height, title, channels and so on.
Hi Everyone,
There were a an issue with build 3.3.4, where IcarosConfig were crashing on startup on Windows 8.1 and below.
This build should fix that, and also contain a couple more fixes I got in yesterday (see changelog).
I'll keep the info from the 3.3.4 release post below here.
It's been a while!
I'm so sorry I haven't been more been more around this past year.
There has been a severe lack of releases and of support, and I apologize for that.
Last year I was put in charge of a large part of a project, and all the spare time I usually
spend on Icaros, was put into this project. I should hopefully be done soon with most of
the work on this other project and I definitely intend to get back to Icaros as soon as possible.
In the meantime, I've decided to open up Icaros to a few developers that I know and trust,
and they will be given full access to the source and the rights to post new releases here.
I will still fully manage the project, and work on it myself as well, however this should
hopefully provide more frequent releases to you all.
And as always, Thank you all so incredibly much for donating, translating, writing feedback,
providing bug reports, and contributing to make Icaros better with every release. ❤️
And for full transparency here is the total donation amount in 2025:
$479
Thank you all so much! ❤️
(Also don't worry, if you've posted an issue or discussion on here, I will get back to
you at some point)
I hope you all enjoy the new albeit small release this time!
Icaros v.3.3.5 Final
Added more MKV tags and improved handling of Title, Artist and Part Number tags
Added TGA and HDR to the presets
Added MXF as a default file format
Fixed colors in EXR thumbnails
Fixed thumbnailing of files containing HEVC with an alpha layer
Fixed thumbnailing of AVIF files with auxiliary data layers
Fixed thumbnailing of certain HEIC files
Fixed thumbnailing of MOV/MP4 files with encrypted streams
Fixed a "phantom Enter" being fired when calling the IcarosConfig commands from a script
MKV files now shows the full date for the "Date released" property instead of just the year
Only show the Album Artist on MKA files. In MKV files use Artist field instead.
Added Czech localization (Thank you John Peri! __)
Updated German localization (Thank you Klaus Luppert! __)
Updated Japanese localization (Thank you taka! __)
