Solved Media Player does not show preview on seek bar


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You know how you hover your mouse along the bottom of the seek bar and as you move along the seek bar you get a preview of the content at that location. Youtube videos have the same thing.

Well Window 11 Media Player does not show the preview as you move the cursor along the seek bar. I see no way to enable this through some setting. The settings menu in Media Player has no setting for this.

I am pretty sure this worked at some point in time, I know it worked on my old Windows 10 7820X system that I retired in March.

How do I get Windows 11 Media Player to show a preview of the content as I move the cursor along the seek bar?
 

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How do I get Windows 11 Media Player to show a preview of the content as I move the cursor along the seek bar?
Which Media Player are you referring to? What type of playing content? Can you post a screenshot?
 

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Window 11 Media Player does not show the preview as you move the cursor along the seek bar. I am pretty sure this worked at some point in time...
I've never seen any Windows Media Player function in that manner!
 

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I don't think I've ever seen any app based player show a seek preview, the way the OP is describing!

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I don't think I've ever seen any app based player show a seek preview, the way the OP is describing!

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I do believe you are absolutely 100% correct. I had PotPlayer installed on my old system and installed on this new one, but have not used it. Just tried it and the preview is there.
 

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    Asus Crosshair X870E Hero
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    GSkill Flare DDR5 64GB @ 30-40-40-96 @ 6000 MHz
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    Asus TUF OC Edition RTX 5080
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    Samsung Odyessy G9 49" DQHD (VA Panel)
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    5120 * 1440
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    Samsung 990Pro M.2 2280
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    Corsair HX 1000i
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    Fractal Design Meshify 2XL
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    Thermalright Peerless Assassin 140 Black
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