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This app allows macOS Finder to display thumbnails, previews, Quick Look previews, and metadata for most types of audio and video files.
AVFoundation, Quick Look and Spotlight understand a limited number of media files - mostly only MPEG audio and video codecs within ISO file formats. This app adds support for wide range of other codecs and "non-native" media file types, including:
- File formats: Matroska
.mka,.mkv, WebM.webm, Windows Media.wma,.wmv, Ogg Video.ogm,.ogv, AVI.avi, QuickTime.mov, Flash Video.flv,.f4v, Real Media.ra,.rm,.rv, SMPTE.gxf,.mxf. - Audio codecs: Vorbis, Windows Media Audio, WavPak, ATRAC, etc.
- Video codecs: VP6, VP8, VP9, AV1, HEVC/H.265, VVC/H.266, Dolby Vision, Theora, Sorenson 1 & 3, Cinepak, Flash, Real Video, DivX, Intel Indeo, QuickTime animation, etc.
The app provides a Spotlight extension that adds support for non-native file formats, and two Media Extensions that add support to AVFoundation for non-native file formats and video codecs.
(Long-time Mac users may remember Perian which performed a similar function with the QuickTime framework before QuickTime was replaced by AVFoundation).
See Getting Started.
See the troubleshooting guide if you have any problems.
