Comments on: FLV

By: Jamali

Jamali — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:15:01 +0000

I’m running Mac OS 10.5.8 and have Perian 1.2 installed but for some reason this plugin does not work at all. I even did the whole “Get Info > Open With > Select ‘Quicktime Player’ > Change All – and update your copy of Perian” first. Any suggestions?

By: madmatt

madmatt — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:28:19 +0000

Install the package, then enter ‘qlmanage -r’ into the terminal, and it works! Creates thumbnails for flv files, and they can be viewed with video and sound in quicklook.

(You might also need to set Quicktime as the default player for FLV files first – Get Info > Open With > Select ‘Quicktime Player’ > Change All – and update your copy of Perian, before you get it working.

By: Olek

Olek — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:46:40 +0000

Wow, the tip with qlmanage -r really worked.

Thank you very much

By: nea

nea — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:27:36 +0000

Found this on another site, open Terminal and enter:
qlmanage -r

This reloads all QuickLook plugin and thus reactivates flv plugin, too.

By: nea

nea — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:20:19 +0000

Doesn’t work anymore since latest QuickTime update…

By: Ingrid

Ingrid — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:15:34 +0000

Doesn’t work for me neither: No sound, no video. Any flv-file just shows the normal quicklook window for “not recognized filetype”. Bummer

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:16:21 +0000

If you can only get the audio, then you probably don’t have the required Perian plugin installed (or correctly installed).

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:45:17 +0000

Yeah,
This only plays audio. Any luck on video?

By: adam

adam — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:56:55 +0000

Agreed! Can only get sound

By: Gadiel

Gadiel — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:50:13 +0000

No go. The sound works, but not video. Did I mess up or is the file insufficient? Any help would be Captain Fantastic…