How to automatically get the movie covers on VLC Playlist?

[abcuser]

1. Open VLC 2.1.6 on Ubuntu 14.04.
2. Media | Directory.
3. Point to the directory where movies are stored and press Open button.
4. For each of the movie a 'movie cover' is displayed. Movie cover is automatically retrived from Matroska (mkv) files. For example one of the movies has the following info. Notice at the end there is "Attachment" section with "2014_Horrible_Bosses_2.jpg" attachment - this is movie cover extracted from media cointainer.

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$ mkvinfo 2014_Horrible_Bosses_2.mkv + EBML head |+ EBML version: 1 |+ EBML read version: 1 |+ EBML maximum ID length: 4 |+ EBML maximum size length: 8 |+ Doc type: matroska |+ Doc type version: 4 |+ Doc type read version: 2 + Segment, size 856500934 |+ Seek head (subentries will be skipped) |+ EbmlVoid (size: 4012) |+ Segment information | + Timecode scale: 1000000 | + Muxing application: libebml v1.3.1 + libmatroska v1.4.2 | + Writing application: mkvmerge v7.7.0 ('Six Voices') 32bit built on Mar 1 2015 02:09:18 | + Duration: 6949.717s (01:55:49.717) | + Date: Thu Mar 26 16:55:18 2015 UTC | + Title: 2014_Horrible_Bosses_2 | + Segment UID: 0x09 0xa8 0xd6 0x9c 0x1e 0xc7 0x82 0x2f 0xee 0x48 0xaf 0xd1 0xb6 0xfb 0x7a 0x21 |+ Segment tracks | + A track | + Track number: 1 (track ID for mkvmerge & mkvextract: 0) | + Track UID: 7028938910337412162 | + Track type: video | + Lacing flag: 0 | + MinCache: 1 | + Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC | + CodecPrivate, length 45 (h.264 profile: High @L4.1) | + Default duration: 41.708ms (23.976 frames/fields per second for a video track) | + Language: und | + Video track | + Pixel width: 1280 | + Pixel height: 536 | + Display width: 1280 | + Display height: 536 | + A track | + Track number: 2 (track ID for mkvmerge & mkvextract: 1) | + Track UID: 12107662621090324022 | + Track type: audio | + Codec ID: A_AAC | + CodecPrivate, length 5 | + Default duration: 21.333ms (46.875 frames/fields per second for a video track) | + Audio track | + Sampling frequency: 48000 | + Channels: 2 |+ EbmlVoid (size: 1099) |+ Attachments | + Attached | + File name: 2014_Horrible_Bosses_2.jpg | + Mime type: image/jpeg | + File data, size: 16192 | + File UID: 13589255709372049510 |+ Cluster

Above is working fine in VLC 2.1.6. But now the problem:

5. Now do the same as above steps for VLC 2.2 and movie covers are NOT automatically retrived from movies after step 3. Movie cover is only retrived if double clicked on movie to play the movie (and then stop button to stop playing movie).

See this print-screen: https://i.imgur.com/S8mxiYl.png

Do I need to set some setting to get all of the movie covers for all of the movies in playlist or is this somekind of bug in VLC 2.2 or something?

EDIT:
I installed VLC 2.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 adding a PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc
vlc

Thanks

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You need to activate parsing in preferences.

[abcuser]

Hi,
sorry for late response... On Ubuntu 14.04 I have downgraded to VLC 2.1.x, but now on Ubuntu 16.04 VLC 2.2.x is installed by default and the same problem remains...

Where is this "parsing" in preferences setting? I did Tools | Preferences. Changed Show setting to All at the bottom left and typed in "parse" in search box at the top left. The only setting I see is "Automatically preparse files" which is in my case already checked, but movie covers are not displayed.

Should I turn on some other setting or am I missing something.

Thanks