• Apple OS X

  m2v files giving Finder the beachball

  Posted by Eric Hansen on June 13, 2009 at 9:32 pm

  whenever i click on a .m2v file, Finder tries to render a preview video in the preview pane. to do this, it hangs the entire system for up to a few minutes (in the case of a .m2v for Blu-Ray). i don’t want Finder to preview videos in the preview window. but it seems like the only option is to shut off the preview pane, that i otherwise find very valuable. is there a way around this?

  thanks

  e

  Eric Hansen, The Audio Visual Plumber – http://www.avplumber.com

  Alexander Kallas replied 16 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steven Lambion

  June 14, 2009 at 11:08 pm

  This is a common issue with QuickTime, and applications that use it like the Finder. The finder will hang for most mpeg2 formats. Snow Leopard with QT X should fix this.
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  Alexander Kallas

  July 2, 2009 at 12:41 pm

  Show the file as icon, not list or column.

  Cheers
  Alexander

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