Creates thumbnails for all your MPO, JPS, and PNS 3d files. This is not a "viewer", but simply a way to see your images in Windows explorer. I got really tired of applications (like sview) just putting default icons as the thumbnails for all my 3D files. So I decided to create my own application that would generate the JPS, MPO, and PNS Thumbnails for me.

Windows Vista & 7 64-Bit:
http://s3d.me/downloads/3DImageThumbnails_x64_Setup.exe
Windows Vista & 7 32-Bit:
http://s3d.me/downloads/3DImageThumbnails_x86_Setup.exe

Note: This will NOT work on Windows XP or below. Windows XP uses a different API to generate thumbnail image cache.

Enjoy!

Update 5/22/2012:
v1.1
*Now Supports: MPO, JPS, and PNS
*Renamed from JPS Thumbnail Viewer to 3D Image Thumbnails

Cool.

I'm having a hard time finding any MPO or PNS files, and I'd like to add support for them. Does anyone have a few of these files they don't mind sharing?

Sure thing.

Thanks Cyber!

I've updated the links above with the new thumbnail provider.

v1.1
*Now Supports: MPO, JPS, and PNS
*Renamed from JPS Thumbnail Viewer to 3D Image Thumbnails

HANDY! I checked it with all three formats and it worked fine. Icons now work AND the preview pane works as well.

Thanks Ceashure!

I have been wishing for this for a while and this works great! I just now created an account here so I could thank you for this. I think icons would be a little better if they were just one half of the image, but I am quite happy with it as it works now.

Wow! It works. Thanks.

Thanks for the app but i installed it and it didnt generate any thumbnails (cleared thumbnail cache and rebooted too after installing...with no results), I took a look at its program files folder and its only a .dll (i suppose that is a dll handler for generating those file extension thumbnails) so i dont know if i have to do something more after installing it...

Months ago in some website I saw that this could be done directly thinkering with the registry in the case of the jps (so it showed the thumbnails as a jpg) but i dont remember where

Hmm. What OS are you running? Do you have any other programs or registry entries you think might be conflicting?

The first thing I would try is uninstalling, and re-installing. The dll may not have registered correctly with windows or the registry.

Ups, sorry for not including that...its a Windows 7 x64, i didnt installed anything to preview jps files or touched the registry yet so i think there shouldn't be any conflicts...

Apart from reinstalling (in case it changes nothing) any way to check the dll is not registering correctly?any registry key or system log to check?

hi ceashure, i have the same problem as ase69s: I installed the 64bit version on Win7 64 bit, ran disk cleanup to clear thumbnail cache, reboot and still nothing happens, as if nothing was installed although I can see the .dll there in Program Files... any ideas?

I'm wondering if it needs to run as administrator? Can you try that and report back?

Second thing to try (but not recommended, as the installer should do this) run this from cmd prompt:
regsvr32 c:\path\to\that\dll\file\filename.dll

hi ceashure, ase69s, I tried installing on two other Win7 PCs in the house (one x64 and one x86) and it worked on both of those so I got down to examining the registry entries and found a fix:

1. Run regedit
2. Delete the .jps key from HKCR
3. Delete the .jps key from HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts
4. Logout/Login
5. Reinstall 3DImageThumbnails_x64_Setup

Awesome! Do you know which other application was trying to "take over"?

Btw, I'll add this fix to the next release. Thanks Peterj!

hi ceashure, i'm not sure if a specific app was trying to take over, or if it was a combination effect with too many apps toying with the registry: before I discovered your app/dll I had installed and uninstalled other apps with JPS support like PhotoDB, Phereo, PhotoShop CS6, etc, I had also tried a utility called Default Program Editor to edit the icon path for JPS files... in the end your dll does exactly what I need in Explorer and with the thumbnails working I then set StereoPhoto Maker as my default app for editing JPS and everything's perfect. I don't use MPO files but I assume the same process would work for them as well...

Thanks for writing such a useful app!!

I have Win7 64bit. I tried the "delete .mpo in the registry/uninstall/restart win/re-install" trick but mpo thumbs still don't show up.
However, if I rename the .mpo files to jps extensions, the thumbs show up instantly.
But when I try to rename the extension back Windows crashes with an error.
"COM Surrogate stopped working"
It then asks if you want to check for a solution online or just close the program.

Please tell me there is a fix for this.
My camera shoots mpos and I don't want to have to rename all the files extensions.
Also to put back on my camera to show others, I'd have to rename them to mpo and then Windows would crash every photo renamed.

PS. Also tried running install as administrator.


Error details:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: DllHost.exe
Application Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Application Timestamp: 4a5bca54
Fault Module Name: gdiplus.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17825
Fault Module Timestamp: 4f9242bf
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000000000089df6
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: cd59
Additional Information 2: cd59b5599b6ee743fbea8af032ae2e88
Additional Information 3: 688f
Additional Information 4: 688f53c0eb19bd1f274e4bf56d5c3739

I'll see what I can do, but I've got to tell you. I've just had a hard drive crash and lost the source code to everything. However I was able to recover a majority of my files (thanks to linux). The bad news is, the recovered files have no file names, no folder structure, and is mixed in with 300GB of other files (all my family photos too :/)....give me a little bit of time to try and recover and piece together the source (or recreate from scratch if I have to), and I'll see what I can do.

If it's very important to you to get taken care of right -away, you could try re-installing windows, then install this immediately after doing so. It should work with no problems. The issue seems to come into play when other application have tried to overtake control over the specific files formats. If you do happen to start installing some 3d applications and notice a particular one that makes it stop working. I could then have a solid way to reproduce this and provide a fix (assuming I can my source pieced back together).

Thanks for the tip, tried deleting those keys, rebooting, installing your program's x64 version, rebooting again...no thumbnails when exploring folders .jps files

The icons/thumbnails where the ones of unknow file type :S, then did right click, open with Irfanview and the icons were of the irfanview file type, so no results...is there another way to solve this?

PD: Sorry about your HD crash...for the next time remember that backups and online repositories for your source code are your friends

I had PowerDVD 12 associated with all my 3d stuff. It plays and views 3D files. (the ones I have anyways)
I deleted .mpo from the registry so that PowerDVD wouldn't take it over. (as previously stated)
Something seems to be stuck between PowerDVD, .mpo files, and Windows.
So now I might uninstall PowerDVD and then check/clean registry, then install your program again, then install PowerDVD again.
Hopefully without having PowerDVD on there at all, Windows will let .mpo control go.

It's not that important to get it working but it is very very useful to have thumbnail views of my 3D photographs.
You did great work on creating it.
You've probably helped hundreds if not thousands of people because of it.

Microsoft should include thumbnails views as an update.
Most pics and video files already show up as thumbnails why can't they just add compatibility updates for new formats?
Licensing issues, the sheer number of different formats, or just cheap, laziness?
Or are they waiting to save this feature for a future version of Windows to get people to buy, yet another upgrade.

None of that worked.
However running the attached registry fixes worked from: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fuji3d/message/10244

I had to run mpo reset and then the mpo thumbs registry file.
Make sure Windows Explorer isn't running or open.
I also ran CCleaner to clear out any old thumbnail files that might have been left over from the past repair attempts.
Then I rebooted.
It works now.
I now have mpo thumnails.

Just what I needed! However, I can't seem to find a way to download those attached registry files. How did you do it?

In the end it worked but it took some days before the thumbnails started to appear...

Is there some way to force it the next time we install it in a fresh computer?

Thanks a lot by the way!

You may need to clear the thumbnail cache in Windows.

I unfortunately never found the original source code, but I did end up rewriting it again.

From messing around it seems that:
A) Windows likes to keep a thumbnail of files even if they are invalid thumbnails.
B) Will update the thumbnail when the file is created or changed.

I've looked high and low, and there no automatic way to tell windows to invalidate a previous thumbnail cache for specific file types. Even so, the thumbnail caches are per directory, instead of system wide.

I think copying all the files from one directory to another would be enough to tell windows to update the thumbnails of those files.