Windows 10: Pixel 6 Videos are not showing thumbnails in Windows 11

Hi everyone. Acer Nitro 5, Windows 11, Pixel 6A phone. Videos transferred to my computer from a Pixel 6A phone refuse to show thumbnails. Every other video file does. Exactly the same issue this guy poster here, but for Windows 11 rather than 10. The solution given there was to download the HEVC codes provided by Microsoft. But when I try to follow that through to the Microsoft store, it just says 'This app will not work on your device.' Is there a fix for Windows 11? Same as the other poster, all other video files display thumbnails no problems. It's only the ones from the Pixel. I've ha

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Any solution for showing Android thumbnails in Windows?

@Rudolph I tested a Samsung Galaxy J3 Prime, a Motorola Moto X4, and a Google Pixel 6. All of them showed thumbnails. The first two phones had just a few photos, but the Pixel had over 400 photos. The only hiccup was that on the Pixel, a few photos didn't initially show thumbnails. Disconnecting and reconnecting just once resolved that. Have you tried resetting the thumbnail cache? Clear and Reset Thumbnail Cache in Windows 10

 

Video thumbnails are not showing

I built a new computer back in April last year and had Windows 11 installed on it. Everything was working fine except for the fact that for some reason the system would not show any thumbnail previews of any of my video files. That includes MP4s, MKVs, or even older formats like mpg or avi. What's strange though is that this only happens for video files that are saved on my secondary storage drive (my d: drive). If the video files are saved on my C: drive or my network drive, the video thumbnails will display no problem. Pictures files will display their thumbnail previews as well regardless of which volume they are saved on.

I tried clearing the thumbnail cache in disk cleanup but that had no effect. I also noticed that there is no listing for thumbnail cache for the D: volume. I tried toggling the option to always display icons and not thumbnails but that didn't work either. My default media player is VLC and I have been keeping that up to date. Also tried changing the default media player back to the system default or any of the other ones available.

I did a full chkdsk of the D: drive but no errors have been found. Also did all of the standard driver and BIOS updates for my hardware.

As a test I installed another hard drive into the computer and copied some video files over to that one. That drive is able to display the video thumbnails with no problem. It is something with this specific drive that is not allowing the thumbnails to display.

This problem has always existed on this computer so it has never worked properly at all. My D: drive is a WD Black 6TB HDD. Formatted with NTFS and is currently only using less than 10% of the available storage. No RAID or encryption is setup on this disk. Any thoughts on this? I have searched everywhere for answers but this seems to be a very unique problem to me.

OH version: Windows 11 Home 22H2

 

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Since updated from Windows 10 to 11, if i have 1 JPG and 1 MP4 file in each folder, and when i preview my file folders on File Explorer, it shows a thumbnail of the video but not photo. Can I change in the other way around (ie. show thumbnail of photo, BUT NOT videos) on the thumbnail?