Icaros

Icaros 3.3.6.000

A collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions.

  • By Tabibito Technology
  • Free
  • Updated Jun 17, 2026
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About Icaros

Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions.
Icaros can provide Windows Explorer thumbnails, for essentially any video media format supported by FFmpeg, this includes popular filetypes such as:Mkv, Flv, Avi, Mp4, Mov, Rmvb, M2ts, Ogm etc.
Besides the FFmpeg supported filetypes, Icaros also contains custom parsers, which can produce Cover Art thumbnails for Mkv, Flac, Ape, Mpc and several other filetypes.
Icaros also provides Windows Explorer properties for the following popular filetypes:Mkv, Mk3d, Mp4, Mov, Webm, Ogm, Ogg, Flv, Avi, Rm, Rmvb, Flac, Opus, Spx, Ape, Mp3, Mpc, Mka, Tak, Tta, Ofr, Wav and more.
Properties refer to the info shown for each file in Explorer, such as length, width, height, title, channels and so on.

What's new in 3.3.6.000

Good afternoon Everyone,
I have another small build for you today.
FFmpeg has recently added support for animated WEBP, and of course this means that Icaros support these files now as well.
Besides animated WEBP, this build mostly focuses on fixing a number of issues posted on the issue tracker.
As always, Thank you all for posting feedback, and giving support and donations!
I appreciate it so much!
I hope you all enjoy the new release! ❤️

Icaros v.3.3.6 Final

  • Added support for Animated WEBP thumbnailing
  • Added support for UTF-8 filenames in CBX files (Comic book files)
  • Added support for rotation of MKV thumbnails
  • Added support for "Sort title" property in MKV files
  • Fixed some wav files not showing properties
  • Fixed some old h264 files producing green thumbnails
  • Fixed default level of MKV tags (now set to 50)
  • Updated FFmpeg

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Technical details

PublisherTabibito Technology
AuthorXanashi
Version3.3.6.000
Release date2026-06-17
LicenseFreeware
Installer typeinno
Architecturex86
Package IDXanashi.Icaros

Links & install command

Install Icaros from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=Xanashi.Icaros -e

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Older versions

  • 3.3.5.000
  • 3.3.3.301
  • 3.3.3.0
  • 3.3.2.303
  • 3.3.2.302
  • 3.3.2.301
  • 3.3.2.0
  • 3.3.1.0
  • 3.3.0.0