Quicklook doesnt preview videos anymore

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Quicklook doesnt preview videos anymore

I tried the search but the results were few and not exactly related to my problem. Google didn't help either. I don't really know what I did (other than set VLC as default avi, mkv, mov, mp4 player over MplayerOSX extended) but QuickLook no longer shows/plays a video when I spacebar on them.

Okay mkv never worked with Quicklook but avi did. Now it just shows an icon of VLC with the duration bar on the bottom and time elapsed. It does play the audio but the sound stutters. Switching back to MPlayer as the default doesn't fix this. Mov and mp4 does work but the majority of my videos are in avi.

Anyone know where I can look to see how to fix this?

13in unibody MBP / 2.53 ghz / 4 gb / 500 gb, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Jun 15, 2010 9:05 PM

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iVmichael

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Jun 15, 2010 11:55 PM in response to Beardpapa

Install the latest 'Combo' updater and that should bring things back to normal (10.6.4 is out today)

If that doesn't fix it run Disc Utility and Repair Permissions.

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Beardpapa Author

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Jun 17, 2010 12:20 AM in response to Beardpapa

okay I forget to mention I did already do the update before making the post, just that I didn't really notice it until checking out some vids.

I tried the disk utility -> first aid -> repair permissions and though there were a lot of things needing permission repairs, unfortunately it didn't fix the issue. Remarkably QuickLook can preview wmv.

On a side note, I do have perian installed but it states it is the most updated version (1.2)

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iVmichael

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Jun 17, 2010 1:16 AM in response to Beardpapa

Have you got the Flip4Mac software installed, or had it installed and removed it ?

Open Users/your_name/Library/Preferences and delete the file com.apple.QuickLookDaemon.plist then restart the Mac and see what it does.