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Quicklook Video allows OSX Finder to display thumbnails, previews and metadata for most types of video files.
QuickLook and Spotlight on OSX 10.9 and later understand a limited number of media files – mostly only MPEG audio and video codecs within MPEG container files. This package adds support for wide range of other codecs and “non-native” media file types, including .asf, .avi, .flv, .mkv, .rm, .webm, .wmf etc.
October 28th, 2014 at 12:29 pm
I am getting the thumbnails but it’s not playing .asf of .flv files.
November 19th, 2014 at 9:29 am
Neil,
You need a video player app (e.g. VLC or MPlayerX) to play these video files.
November 19th, 2014 at 1:09 pm
I’ve got VLC.
Thought/hoped the plugin was meant to show moving, not just still, previews of the file.
December 11th, 2014 at 12:15 am
Installed the package on OSX 10.10.1, but my .mkv thumbnails remain unchanged.
I tried a reboot. Still no change.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
December 11th, 2014 at 3:50 pm
Philip,
Please post a bug report at https://github.com/Marginal/QLVideo/issues .
December 11th, 2014 at 6:06 pm
Will do. Thank you.
January 10th, 2015 at 11:03 am
I have vlc installed as well, but all I get is screenshots.
January 17th, 2015 at 6:46 am
How to uninstal this plugin? Should solve the problem but made it wayyyy worst:/
January 17th, 2015 at 3:11 pm
Mono,
Sorry to hear that. To uninstall follow the instructions here: https://github.com/Marginal/QLVideo#uninstall
February 14th, 2015 at 2:16 am
Hi Marginal,
I appreciate for you effort to replace – at least partially – what Perian has provided in earlier versions of OS X. Now that Perian does not work in OS X 10.9 and above, what would it need to make a video quick look preview of AVI files? Is this generally possible in Yosemite or is the Apple’s new video foundation lacking API support to do that?
Thanks.
February 14th, 2015 at 12:40 pm
is Perian supposed to provide quicklook previews of additional file formats? I had QuickLook previews of webm files on Lion (10.7.5) with v1.3.2 but after upgrading to 10.8.5 i no longer have webm previews. They play fine in Quicktime and VLC though. I posted on Perian’s Github page too but didn’t see many responses there, so i figured i’d check here too 🙂
February 17th, 2015 at 8:43 am
It’s not currently possible to get playable QuickLook previews of AVI, WEBM, MKV etc files under 10.9 & 10.10.
Perian still works under OSX 10.9 & 10.10 for QuickTime 7 and other applications that use the QuickTime APIs.
However QuickLook and QuickTime X no longer use the QuickTime APIs – they now use the AVFoundation APIs, and there’s no documented way of extending AVFoundation to support more containers and codecs.
There’s some discussion of the issue here:
https://github.com/Marginal/QLVideo/issues/3
February 22nd, 2015 at 8:42 am
WILL THIS WORK WITH 32 BIT QUICKTIME CODECS? I NEED TO BE ABLE TO PREVIEW ANIMATION PNG ETC.
March 11th, 2015 at 9:17 pm
I’m a newbie at this:
is Quick Look recommended for viewing jpegs
on MacPro 10.7.5?
thanks,
Yvette
April 7th, 2015 at 2:14 pm
@JOHN CLARK:
NO. IT DOESN’T “WORK WITH” QUICKTIME CODECS, 32 BIT OR OTHERWISE.
@yvette bernklau:
QuickLook on OSX 10.7 does an adequate job of viewing jpegs.
October 25th, 2015 at 12:13 pm
works fine with OS X 10.11.1
thanks!
October 28th, 2015 at 12:21 pm
@Alex what files type(s) are you able to view. I’m finding some .mpegs and .mov files do play but some don’t.
February 29th, 2016 at 7:53 am
Hi ,thank you for providing this wonderful plugin! It works well with osx10.11.13.
but it still have some tiny bugs for example, it doesn’t work well with .rmvb and .avi files, it just grab a screenshot with them.
September 14th, 2016 at 10:40 pm
Thanks for providing such a wonderful plugin. It works well with Yosemite.
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