Finder preview not showing avi thumbnails on macbk air

Can anyone tell me why my macbook air is not showing .avi thumbnail previews in finder on my macbook air but I can see them on my imac? Both are running macOSx 10.6.6 and I am using VLC player. The macbk air shows the orange cone but i can only see the viedo when I double click and open vlc player. I don't have to do this on the imac. Both computers are showing the same finder settings and vlc settings as far as I can tell.

I'm curious as to why this is working at all on your iMac. Is your iMac using VLC player for playing .AVI? Or does .AVI open in Quicktime using 3rd party .AVI QT plug-ins?
I have a Mac Pro and my .WMV and .AVI files all show VLC media player Orange traffic icons instead of pretty thumbnails. I've been looking for a solution to show thumbnail previews, but haven't found one and assumed it was a limitation of the VLC media player.

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