# Xanashi/Icaros

Official issue tracker and download location for Icaros Shell Extensions

Repository: https://github.com/Xanashi/Icaros
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/icaros
License Family: other
Topics: properties, shell-extension, thumbnail-generator, thumbnailer, thumbnails, windows
Last push: 2026-06-17T12:38:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 87/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 88, release rhythm 77, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3306, "days_push": 77, "days_rel": 77, "gap_med": 76, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1826, forks 24 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:41.311963+00:00)

## What it is
Icaros is a collection of lightweight Windows Shell Extensions that provide Windows Explorer thumbnails for virtually any FFmpeg-supported video format, plus cover art thumbnails and file property handlers for many media filetypes. The repository serves as the official issue tracker and release download location, as the software itself is not open source.

## Use cases
- show video thumbnails in windows explorer for mkv files
- get thumbnails for flv and avi videos in file explorer
- display media file properties like duration and resolution in explorer
- add cover art thumbnails for flac and ape audio files
- enable explorer previews for rmvb and m2ts videos
- see video length and dimensions in windows explorer columns
- fix missing thumbnails for mp4 and mov files on windows 11

## When to choose
- you need explorer thumbnails or property support for media formats windows doesn't handle natively
- you want a lightweight, dependency-free shell extension on windows vista through 11
- you need cover art thumbnails for audio formats like flac, ape, or mpc

## When to avoid
- you need open-source software you can inspect or modify
- you're on a non-windows platform
- you need thumbnailing outside of windows explorer

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, file-system
- domain: windows, media, desktop-applications, files
- platform: windows
- tags: shell-extension, thumbnailer, windows-explorer, ffmpeg, video-thumbnails, file-properties, closed-source

## Member repositories
- Xanashi/Icaros (main) score 87

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:41.311963+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:19:33.742453+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Xanashi/Icaros (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:41.311963+00:00, sha 258637ff7b50)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.