No support on the current Windows photo viewer?

saschanaz / jxl-winthumb

A JPEG XL (*.jxl) thumbnail handler for Windows File Explorer.

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No support on the current Windows photo viewer? #34

Closed StefanOltmann closed 7 months ago

StefanOltmann commented 7 months ago

I'm experiencing some confusion with the installation on Windows 11. The application seems to open the old Windows photo viewer, which I wasn't aware still existed.

When I navigate to the destination using the new Windows photo viewer (referred to as "Microsoft Photo"), the JXL doesn't appear. Could it be that Microsoft Photo is no longer utilizing WIC? Is WIC deprecated in this context?

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Edit: Dropped the thumbnail question. It required a restart to take off.

saschanaz commented 7 months ago

Dupe of #21

Yeah, Microsoft does not care about WIC anymore (see #29) and they use their own undocumented private API to add codec support (used by e.g HEIF Image Extensions). I have no idea what the APIs are.