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Marginal / QLVideo

This package allows macOS Finder to display thumbnails, static QuickLook previews, cover art and metadata for most types of video files.
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Video not playable in quicklook #57

Closed goodman-capu closed 6 years ago

goodman-capu commented 6 years ago

For .mp4 or .mov files, without QLVideo installed, they can be directly played without opening. However, after installing, it only shows a thumbnail and the file is not playable (unless use space to quicklook). Before installing QLVideo:

before

After installing QLVideo:

after
Marginal commented 6 years ago

This is a side-effect of this plugin "owning" generation of thumbnails for video files. I don't know of an easy way around this.

goodman-capu commented 6 years ago

I think a easy way to solve this is to restrict file types it monitors. For example, only generate thumbnail for .mkv and .avi files, and ignore .mp4 .mov files. Hope we can have a configuration for that, or at least provide a default config that ignores .mp4 and .mov and so on.

goodman-capu commented 6 years ago

Another way to think of it is like: If macOS can preview this item, then skip QLVideo. I've never made a QuickLook Plugin before so I don't know whether it's possible.