Hi Leo,
I have VLC registered as the standard program for playing mp3.
But DO uses Quicktime in the preview pane.
Why oh why?
Love,
Dirk.
Because VLC doesn't provide a standard Preview Handler or ActiveX viewer while Quicktime does, and Quicktime must have taken over the MP3 filetype for ActiveX (it's handled by Windows Media Player's ActiveX viewer by default).
(VLC does provide an ActiveX control, but it's not a standard one so you have to write custom code to hook it up to anything, which nobody has done yet for the Opus viewer panel.)
gnnnn... I hate Quicktime, but I need it for making Premiere Pro work with .mov-files.
Using QT in the preview pane, mp3 are loading sooo slowly.
Do you know any workaround to use a faster mp3-player for the preview pane?
Try making Windows Media Player take back the MP3 filetype. That should reinstate it as the default ActiveX viewer.
You can also configure Opus's ActiveX+Preview+Web+Office viewer plugin to explicitly use the Windows Media Player preview handler, if you want. (But then you have to click the viewer panel to play MP3s, whereas using Windows Media Player's ActiveX control will play them as soon as you select them.) (The WMP Preview Handler and ActiveX controls are two different things that behave slightly differently.)
You could also try QT-Lite, which will play .mov in WMP.
Ah. I'll try that.
Was this ever solved for VLC to speed up mov previews in Opus ? They open quickly in VLC as a program, slow in Quicktime...
(Aside: QuickTime has been abandoned by Apple and is no longer safe. Apple themselves recommend uninstalling it.)
MP3s are usually played via the Windows Media Player (ActiveX or Preview Handler, depending on if you want them to auto-play or not), which opens them quickly.
For auto-play, if it isn't already using WMP for MP3 out of the box: If you assign MP3 files to WMP temporarily, it will usually take over the ActiveX duties automatically, after which you can re-assign MP3 back to something else (as long as it is not Quicktime) as most other things do not take over the MP3 ActiveX registration.
For click-to-play, configure the ActiveX+Preview+Web+Office viewer plugin in Opus (Preferences / Viewer / Viewer Pane) and in the Preview Handlers section at the top, enable Windows Media Player. That will give you the same viewer that Explorer typically uses for MP3 files.