Dialog box: Configure lister
Tab: General
Display at startup: Choose here how lister is started when F3 is pressed in Total Commander. Lister can start up showing the file as text, binary (fixed width) or hex. When Autodetect is selected, lister can distinguish in a limited way between text files and binary files.
Font at startup: Choose here if lister should start up with the ANSI- (Windows), ASCII- (DOS) or variable font (Windows, text only). When Autodetect is selected, lister tries to distinguish between ANSI and ASCII text.
Font: Here you can select a font for the three possible font selections. Warning: When selecting a DOS font, also non-DOS fonts are listed because of a bug in the Windows standard dialog. Lister works with multiple font families in Windows NT, so you can view Cyrillic (Russian) and Eastern European texts with the correct font.
Display width: Choose a line width for the text and binary modes.
Search result: Determines how many lines from the upper window border found text will be shown.
Tab: Multimedia
Multimedia display Various options to control how multimedia content is displayed
Use plugins or load bitmaps as graphics at startup
Determines whether pictures should be shown as graphics or text when lister starts.
Multimedia (AVI,WAV,...)
This option lets Lister load and play sound and video files by default. If unchecked, you can still switch to "image" mode to open such files.
RTF This option displays RTF (rich text format) files using Microsoft's RTF control, which is also used by Wordpad. Images and other embedded objects will NOT be shown.
Use Irfanview/Xnview to load graphics other than BMP
With the option, the viewer Irfanview or Xnview can be used as a filter to import other files than bmp into Total Commander. This option needs a lot of memory for big image files.
You can find Irfanview through the "Addons - Tools" page on our homepage,
www.ghisler.com. You need at least version 2.90 of Irfanview!
As an alternative, you can use XNView 1.14 or later (
www.xnview.com). This program also exists in a version for Windows 3.1!
Show HTML as text with links
You can choose to show html files either as interpreted text with links, or as plain HTML source code.
Show links in HTML with surrounding {}
Here you can choose whether you want to show curly braces around links or not.
LS-Plugins: This button allows you to install/remove lister plugins. The plugins will be called in the order in which they are listed by the plugin install listbox. You can change the sort order with Shift+Arrow keys. In lister, you can switch through all matching plugins by pressing the '4' key.
Use preview handlers from Explorer
Turns method 8, "Explorer Preview" on and of. It uses functions which are also used by the Explorer for its preview pane. It allows you to use third party preview handlers too.
Use thumbnail providers
It uses functions which are used by the Explorer to display thumbnails. These allow to specify a size, so they often provide useful images in full size.
Define view method by file type
Allows you to choose preferred view methods separately for file types chosen by the user. This is mainly useful when there are multiple view methods for a certain file type, e.g. display icons from program files or display program file structure. Normally this is determined by the order of the lister plugins, but this function provides more options.
If you have defined 2 or more view methods for an extension, pressing '4' multiple times will change only through these methods. If you have specified only one view method, opening Lister with F3 will use this method. Pressing '4' multiple times will change all Lister plugins if they support the file type.
Additional Irfanview/Xnview file types:
Additional file types which should be passed to Irfanview/Xnview for conversion.
Example: *.xyz *.abc
It's now possible to also disallow internally detected types. For example, to include jpg files, but exclude tga and tif files, use:
*.jpg | *.tga *.tif *.tiff
Additional multimedia file types:
Additional file types which should be loaded with the internal media player.
Example: *.mkv *.wmv
Also allows to exclude types detected internally. For example, to include mkv and wmv files, but disallow mp3 and mp4 files, use:
*.mkv *.wmv | *.mp3 *.mp4
Tab: Player
Internal Media Player
Various options to control internal playback of video and audio.
Use default system filters
The choice of decoding filters is left to Windows. Unfortunately, the system filters only support a few formats
Recommended filters (LAV, ffdshow)
If the LAV video and LAV audio filters are installed, these are preferred. These filters support a large number of file formats. If the LAV filters are not available, the ffdshow filters are searched for instead. Otherwise standard filters are used. The LAV and ffdshow filters as well as DirectVobSub can also be used without installation, by copying them into the subdirectory filter32 or filter64, respectively.
Old Video for Windows Player
Use the old playback method from Total Commander 9.51 or older.
User defined: Choose your preferred playback filters. If loading a file with these filters fails, system filters are used instead.
Download filters... Opens a page on our homepage with a list of recommended filters.
Source filters Filters to open files. Recommended are "LAV Filter Source" and "Haali Media Splitter". Alternatively, a grf file created with "Graphedit" or "Graph Studio" can be selected here (filter graph).
Add Displays a list of available source filters. "* .grf (Graphedit)" shows a dialog for loading a grf file.
Important: A filter that supports windowless playback must be used as the output filter.
Remove Removes the selected filter or filter graph file.
Decoder filters (audio/video):
List of filters that Lister should prefer to use. Lister loads these filters into the filter graph and then calls the function to display the file. Windows first checks whether one or more of the already loaded filters can be used. If not, other suitable filters are searched for in the system.
Add Displays a list of available decoder filters.
Remove Removes the selected filter.