[MacTUG] Marginal/QLVideo: This package allows macOS Finder to display thumbnails, static QuickLook previews, cover art and metadata for most types of video files.

Marlon A. Griffith m3griffi at uwaterloo.ca
Tue May 14 10:00:26 EDT 2019


"""
This package allows macOS Finder to display thumbnails, static previews, 
cover art and metadata for most types of video files.

QuickLook and Spotlight on macOS 10.9 and later understand a limited 
number of media files - mostly only MPEG audio and video codecs within 
MPEG container files. This package adds support for wide range of other 
codecs and "non-native" media file types, including .asf, .avi, .flv, 
.mkv, .rm, .webm, .wmf etc.

Installation

     Download the .pkg file of the latest release.
     Double-click on it.
     The Installer app will walk you through the installation process.
     To see thumbnails of video files you may need to relaunch Finder 
(ctrl-⌥-click on the Finder icon in the Dock and choose Relaunch) or log 
out and back in again.
     You may experience high CPU and disk usage for a few minutes after 
installation while Spotlight re-indexes all of your "non-native" audio 
and video files.

Alternatively, if you have Homebrew installed, you can install using 
Homebrew Cask:

brew cask install qlvideo

https://github.com/Marginal/QLVideo
"""


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