I am looking for a windows video player with the seek preview feature, like the one in the Hulu player described as follows: "Seek Preview displays a preview thumbnail when the mouse hovers over a spot in the timeline". Any ideas? I haven't noticed this feature in the major video apps like WMP and VLC.
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MPC BE (Media Player Classic Black Edition) has that feature.
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You could use a video editor instead. A lightweight one. Say, something which is only meant for basic cutting and slicing. Absent a truly hardcore nonlinear video player (tm) it's what I am personally using. I would recommend Solveigmm Video Splitter, because it's relatively fast.
I suspect online services like Hulu or YouTube can be much faster about seek previews because they cache the previews. Solveigmm unfortunately does not do this. You'll have to wait for the previews to load everytime you load the video file, and everything you zoom in to a level further than you have been working at.
1New KMPlayer has this feature.
You can move the mouse cursor on the time bar to view a thumbnail of that position right away on the screen. The video itself plays on, and the main purpose of the feature is to provide you with better seeking options in the player as you can use it to preview the video position without jumping to it right away.
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Global Pot Player has this feature as well - i think it works better than it does in MPC-BE and KM Player. You can find it here
to enable go to Preferences...playback....display thumbnail previews.
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