View .MOV files

[Brother Gabriel-Marie]

In Classic I was able to double-click on a .MOV file to load it into the View Mode where it would play and I could watch it.
When I double-click to View it, nothing happens - a tab doesn't even open.
In the settings for View, I have Settings > View > Misc. > Play Video checked.

Now, I can see the video in the little Preview Panel, but not in the full View Mode.

What is the trick to get it to load into View Mode and play?

[xnview]

do you have the same problem with other video files??

[Brother Gabriel-Marie]

Well, apparently, I do. I tried an mp4 and had the same issue.

But I don't have the problem if I open them from Explorer instead of MP.

I tried again today, and this time MP froze up - it ghosted over and would not respond and the .MOV would not display in the Preview Panel. I've tried this twice over, so far - after MP froze, I killed the process and started again and still had the same issue.

So I tried another time. This time, I chose an mp4 with no thumbnail. The Preview Panel was blank, but the controls were there, so I pushed play and it played. This worked several times over. But when I selected a jpg file afterward, the image preview did not load and was still stuck on the video player controls and it caused MP to freeze.

Normally, I have video files set to open with VLC.