Video Thumbnails in Finder

[pointlessness]

Recently purchased a mac for the first time. Is there a plugin for Finder to display folder contents as video thumbnails? Otherwise, is there a Finder-like (or Windows Explorer-like) program that can show thumbnails of videos? Cost does not matter - I really miss this feature from XP.

Otherwise, what are other peoples methods for browsing videos?

iPhoto is alright but doesn't seem to handle wmv though I have flip4mac. I tried Cocothumbx but the monitor tool doesn't seem to work (it is a beta I guess) and it's a very cumbersome solution otherwise creating the thumbnails manually.

Everything else about tiger and macs in general has been seriously impressive so far. Is Leopard likely to have a video thumbnail feature? If not, I guess better look into writing programs for the mac.

Thanks for any help,

Nicky

 

[Drumhum]

Have you discovered that if you look at the folder in Column view and highlight a file (one click) you get a preview of the file be it a picture, movie etc. You can play the movie too. All without launching any application.

There is nothing in the OS that will show the thumbnail of the file as a playing movie (if thats what you mean). I wouldn't have thought that would be desirable anyway as it would eat a lot of cpu resources!

BTW use column view by clicking on the third "view" button at the top of a window, or View->Column View, or applekey+3