No Video Thumbnails Shown In Finder, Just A Quicktime Icon??

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No Video Thumbnails Shown In Finder, Just A Quicktime Icon??

Hi there,

I've just upgraded to Snow Leopard, and now a lot of my videos don't have a thumbnail of the video, and instead just has a Quicktime file icon. The files are AVI files (or at least most of them seem to be, others such as MP4 have thumbnails).

I have Perian 1.1.4 installed and Quicktime does play these files.

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas why i'm not getting thumbnails generated?? Quicklook does work with these files also.

Any help would be amazing.

Thanks. xx

White Macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Sep 25, 2009 3:37 AM

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Answer 1

Da BomB

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Sep 25, 2009 3:47 AM in response to GonzalRaf

If you click get info, does it have under name and extension the correct .wahetver?

Sometimes if a file has one missing or can't figure it out it won't display an icon.... (.jpg's do this a lot)

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Answer 2

rajo

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Sep 25, 2009 4:29 AM in response to GonzalRaf

i would bet this is due to Perian not being updated for Snow Leopard. There may be a change in the inner workings of QT that require 3rd party codecs to be rewritten to properly display thumbnails again.

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GonzalRaf Author

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Sep 25, 2009 4:37 AM in response to GonzalRaf

Hi,

Yes all the Get Info details are correct... assuming it must be something to do with Perian...

GRRR!! 😟

xx

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Answer 4

mdi

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Sep 26, 2009 11:58 AM in response to GonzalRaf

Try this (rebuild Finder/Quicklook's thumbnail cache):

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10296267#10299190

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Answer 5

ricparis

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Oct 5, 2009 5:55 PM in response to mdi

Tried clearing cache as linked, same punition with video thumbnails. +1 I agree with the above.

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Answer 6

Oct 21, 2009 1:44 PM in response to ricparis

I also tried this (deleting the Quicklook cache) and no luck, still the same issue.
I did a clean installation and this works
However, I did again the installation and imported my USER profile in FULL via the assistant when you first configured Snow Leopard (using an FULL BACKUP copy and/or Time Machine Backup) and then problem reappears
I have reinstalled DivX, Desinstalled RealPlayer deinstalled Perian and still the same issue. I cannot see the Thumbnails or the Cover Flow of the video/movie file such MPG, MPG, AVI, WMV but it works for MP4 I have for my IPod
I finally gave up and left this last installation and I did not have the energy to migrate my data, emails, settngs, etc manually.
By the way, the upgrade from Leopard 10.5.8 towards Snow Leopard 10.6 was smooth but the performance was awful specially after installing 10.6.1. With the upgrade I had the same issue with my USER account or with any, NO THUMBSNAILs for most of my videos enough though they are played correctly in Quicktime and Quicklook....

Any help????

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