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Quicktime being stupid on Pismo

Quicktime being stupid on Pismo PowerPC 12 posts Sep 16, 2008 — Sep 26, 2008

#1 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 - 17:46

Okay, so as you may know, I've upgraded this bugger a bit. Here's its specs now:

G3/500, 512 megs RAM, 30 gig HDD, OS X 10.4.11

It's a very happy machine, except for one thing; it won't play quicktime movies. When Tiger installed, it played the intro movie fine without any hiccups, so I *know* it can play them, but it won't. All it does is bring up a blank QT window and play the sound (if there is any) and nothing else. Here's a picture of it (not) playing the intro video:

http://img530.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1ty4.png

Any ideas what's making it do this? It's really rather annoying, especially since I *know* it can play them fine, as it did when the bugger first booted. Thanks!

#2 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 - 17:57

the reason the intro played well is because of what the encoding is. I have installed tiger on a 300MHz mac and the ntro bid plays well. If you can figure out the encoded format let me know. I have DVD movies play without hiccups. Can someone tell me if the dvd's format is acheveable?

#3 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 - 20:35

...Any ideas what's making it do this?...

You can look in your user library folder for the Quicktime preferences file(s). Perhaps there is an out of date duplicate or corrupt copy, and purging them forcing Quicktime to create a new file might help. Failing this, a disk diagnostic followed by a reinstall of Quicktime might be a reasonable next step.

#4 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 - 22:29

Try using VLC instead?

#5 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 - 23:23

Try using VLC instead?

I second John8520's idea! I use VLC for everything from flash, to DVD and it plays them great!.

I just got a more recent problem that either quicktime plays only the video, or VLC only plays the sound. I can't get either of them to play both the video and the sound

#6 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 - 07:57

I use quicktime for 99% of my needs.

When coupled with perian it is quite versatile.

Oh and I paid for QT Pro if that makes a difference.

I do use VLC, but only when QT fails me; which is rare in the extreme.

#7 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 - 15:31

VLC is NO different in Quicktime.

#8 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 - 15:54

Thanks John, VLC plays 'em fine

Just wish it wasn't such a slouch in loading time :

#9 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 - 22:03

Whee, I made a video of exactly what's going on here:

http://augusf.dyndns.org/public/qtissue.mov

If anybody has any ideas, I'd be happy to hear them; it's really rather annoying. VLC works okayish for now, but I'd really like to get QT Player working

#10 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 - 23:29

I'm thinking the problem is Quicktime plugin being stupid under Safari...

My Pismo

10.3.9

400 MHz PowerPC G3

256 MB SDRAM

Trying to play your movie on your problem, by viewing your post from the following browsers and clicking on your link:

Safari 1.3.2 plays sound only

Firefox 2.0.0.16 plays ok

Camino 1.6.4 plays ok

So then I go back to Safari and do a copy link from your post. I open Quicktime and paste the link into open url...and Quicktime plays it ok!

Go figure...

#11 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 - 01:36

Wow, you're having the exact opposite issue from what I'm having; bloody QuickTime, make up your mind what you want to break

#12 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 - 02:25

Now I can't save as QT movie and then try to open it like you did because the QT plugin under all three browsers asks me to pay for QT Pro upgrade, but I did try all three browsers with the link extracted from your movie screen,

http://pulsar.esm.psu.edu/Faculty/Gray/graphics/movies/g4_tanks_LAN

(pasted to each browser's location bar)

Safari: plays only the sound

FireFox: plays ok

Camino: plays ok

Then, I ask for the info on the QT player plugin, and in all three browsers it is the same, version 7.5. Well, they sure do not work the same.

And I tried Quicktime itself going to the above URL without any browser, and QT plays the movie ok directly (but again, wants me to buy an upgrade before allowing me to save).