I fear it may be unfixable as they changed the way Preview/QuickLook loads previews. Its more AVFoundation and not quicktime anymore. It's like asking for apple to release iOS video plugin support. I think they just screwed usAVI and other files worked through Quick Look for me all the way through to Mountain Lion. When Mavericks booted up for the first time for me, it gave a message listing Flip4Mac as incompatible software. It was the only item on that list.
(I think Flip4Mac is only for WMV files though? I don't know. All of this has been installed on my Mac for years, I'd forgotten they were still running or necessary up until this point.)
So Flip4Mac and Perian are still listed in my System Preferences, but I imagine they aren't doing anything any longer?
I use MPlayerX and VLC for actually opening video files and they don't need the other software, but I really miss being able to use Quick Look for everything and I guess I took it for granted. It is a shame.
In short: Somebody fix it!
QuickLook can show images, text, or movies. This is not limited to OS X's supported codecs: you just need to know how to (via programming) to get it to the screen.I fear it may be unfixable as they changed the way Preview/QuickLook loads previews. Its more AVFoundation and not quicktime anymore. It's like asking for apple to release iOS video plugin support. I think they just screwed us
Flip4Mac will load AVI files in case the file is a mislabeled wmv file.(I think Flip4Mac is only for WMV files though? I don't know. All of this has been installed on my Mac for years, I'd forgotten they were still running or necessary up until this point.)
Oh well. I always choose x264 or whichever when it's an option anyway. It's not a deal breaker, but I'd rather it work than not, obviously.I fear it may be unfixable as they changed the way Preview/QuickLook loads previews. Its more AVFoundation and not quicktime anymore. It's like asking for apple to release iOS video plugin support. I think they just screwed us
While the current version of Perian may work with QuickTime 7, it causes a "QTKitServer Not Responding" condition when using Safari and can be seen in Activity Monitor.
I too miss being able to play .avi files in quick look. Would Flip4Mac work?
I have had a bad experience with the software in the past and would want to avoid trying it if at all possible.
Click To Flash also causes this.
Sadly, it's not that Mavericks has shoddy support for formats: it's that it has moved to AVFoundation, and said framework only supports a handful of codecs, and does not use QuickTime to load third-party codecs.
To my knowledge, there is no way for AVFoundation to load third-party codecs, so you would have to convert the files to the needed format. Opening a file via Mavericks' QuickTime will convert it to said format.
Yes, this is not ideal, but this is the direction Apple is taking, for better or worse.
So can anyone explain how this AVFoundation thing works that makes it impossible to create a plugin like perian?
How is it like asking apple to support iOS plugin support?
just for curiosity's sake...
apple won't open it up to developers
ever wonder why you can't play .avi or .wmv on your iPhone video.app and why no one can install a plugin to make it work without using a different app all together. its because there are no specific documented hooks or ways for developers to extend the functionality. its not an open or documented application that can be built upon
avfoundation is what iOS uses to playback media. its a low-level power-efficent and secure way of doing decoding and having plugins or codecs would decrease security (3rd party) and would increase power usage (cpu decoding vs. hardware)
you gots it.I see. thanks cohenmatt! So basically, though we can use QT7+perian, VLC or MplayerX to open those files, we can't make them viewable by the Finder because we can't tap into the Finder's core framework, whereas in previous versions, we could - because it was based on QTKit as opposed to AVFramework, correct?