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Movie preview thumbnails not showing in Coverflow or Grid views

Submitted by davehutch on October 12, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Icons, Usability

When opening o folder in Finder that contain movie files, they do not show as a thumbnail of the movie.
This happens with movies of the following types: qt, mov, avi, wmv, mp4, m4v, flv

With perian installed along with Flip4Mac there are several reports of this behaviour across the Internet.

Deleting Quicklook preference files and re-launching Finder does not help

Re-install Audio Hijack and update components. All solved after a log out - log in

Low

Low

Not fixed

Fixed

Discussion (4 comments)

jasper wrote on November 2, 2009, 8:48am

I think this is an isolated problem, as all my movie files with Perian and Flip4Mac installed give me previews in all modes...

davehutch wrote on November 2, 2009, 4:53pm

Not if you read the forums on the Apple website. Many people have this issue and it goes back to 10.5.8

davehutch wrote on November 3, 2009, 8:03pm

Assigned to categories: "Aesthetics", "Annoyance", "Usability"
Removed from categories: "Bug"
Changed solution description.

polyglotinc wrote on June 12, 2010, 12:34am

I have this problem, am running 10.5.8, and amazingly have installed the odd assortment of software that is { Audio Hijack, Flip4Mac, Perian }.
So, the solution is to simply uninstall then reinstall Audio Hijack??
BTW, how does one uninstall A.H.?

davehutch wrote on June 12, 2010, 7:45am

I did it using App Cleaner. Open the app, drag A.H into it and App Cleaner finds all the associated files and deleted them

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