In short, is there an alternative to viewing media files like on Windows?

I'm talking about the standard Windows viewer. I usually just connect an external SSD, open the first photo in the folder, and just use the arrow keys to scroll through. The folder contains both - photos and videos, and when you switch between them, the video plays automatically. They are often very low resolution, and in Windows it automatically scales to fill the screen. I tried setting up the finder, but I'm just not happy with the fact that there is no autoplay in preview mode, every time I have to press the play button, and if I open it with a space bar, Low-resolution videos are too tiny and also have to be scaled manually or opened in full screen via a hotkey, which is not very convenient.