QuickLookVideo

Do this no longer work? https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins https://github.com/Marginal/QLVideo

Do note that current plugins for Quick Look video do nothing more than be able to display static thumbnails of various video formats even if you have Perian installed. Unlike with Snow Leopard and Perian in the past, you won't see the actual video and audio run in Quick Look with AVI, MKV, etc formats.. That's where the libVLC can come in, I hope. More info: https://github.com/Marginal/QLVideo/issues/3

indeed, there are tons of modern QL plugins on GitHub even. just a few I spotted in a quick search: https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins https://github.com/Nyx0uf/qlMoviePreview https://github.com/Marginal/QLVideo http://whomwah.github.io/qlstephen/

AFAIK, there's been problems with building new plugins when it comes to video codecs since these Apple changes: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2300/_in... Here's more info on the change Apple made here with details on the issues it has caused with Quick Look: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/114578/quick-look-s... See the post at the bottom of the link above. In a nutshell, things like Perian that used to allow Quick Look (not to be confused with the QuickTime Player) to preview a bunch of video formats got hosed when Apple switched over to "AV Foundation" or something. Considering how many less video formats work with Quick Look after "upgrading" from Snow Leopard to Mavericks, I personally consider it "depreciated" at least in principle. Quite a lot of Mac users (especially those that work with a lot of vid