App to quickly flick though folder of jpegs?

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Does anyone know if there is an app that will preview a folder of 1000s of jpegs like a flickerbook? Have got to go through thousands of snapshots taken by a network cam, and rather than it being in motionJpeg movie format, it snaps away during motion detection and ends up with 1000s of jpegs.
Need to go through and quickly preview each pic and purge any images of no interest. Ideally an app that will flick through each jpeg in a specified folder rather than having to preview using Windows Photo Viewer and throttling my keyboard cursor keys/mouse wheel - a very long chore!
Cheers.
 
Depending upon how clearly you need to see each image (i.e. whether viewing each in a small thumbnail will suffice) then you could quite simply alter your folder view to an appropriate icon size and filter through them that way, as that will effectively produce an interactive collage for you.

Alternatively, you mention "like a flickbook" which says to me that perhaps you want to view your images like a movie. In that case, perhaps a nice simple thing to do would be to convert them to a movie using a free piece of software like Windows live movie maker (or your alternative free thing of choice iMovie, whatever), then you can skip through the movie (which after all are basically "flickbooks"!) and make a note of the time's you want to delete then go back to your individual frames and remove them that way?

Honestly, I don't think there's an easy solution to your problem unfortunately, hence the proliferation of automatic object recognition in video streams, so people don't have too sit and go through each frame of their CCTV footage :)
 
Not sure if it is exactly what you are after but IrfanView might be worth a look. The slide show mode in that can be speed up to be pretty quick, or use the Thumbnails tool that comes with it which can be configured to show the pics at any thumbnail size and auto scroll the screen as it pulls the pictures in.
 
Thanks Manic_Man, I had been going through the folder view with very large/large icon size but still taking a while to go through as it does a thumbnail cache update everytime, and keyboard/mouse takes a thrashing.
Irfanview in Slideshow mode did the trick, thanks Chaosophy!
 
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