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Quicktime - stops playing files it used to be happy with?
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Hi Folks
Quicktime has played .avi files pretty solidly since I installed a codec. Then recently, it's started telling me that it's missing a compressor. I get audio only, or nothing at all.
I have to say, I find the whole world of Quicktime/video issues baffling and need to put in some research. QT doesn't seem to support things all that well - certainly from an audio point of view. I have the VLC player, which is running OK at the moment, but I've had problems with it in the past.
How is it that QT suddenly stops playing files it's previously been happy with?
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what codec? do you mean it no longer plays the exact same files, or just that it no longer plays new files who's names end in the same 4 characters as older files you can still play? Do you have the xvid and ac3 delegate components installed? Are you mad at QuickTime because you have to download components and codecs instead of downloading a new version of the whole app (and in the case of QT system-wide API) every time the media piracy community comes up with a new compression trick?
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"Are you mad at QuickTime because you have to download components and codecs instead of downloading a new version of the whole app (and in the case of QT system-wide API) every time the media piracy community comes up with a new compression trick?"
Yeah, that sounds about right.
I've got the xvid codec. Once I installed this, QT seemed farily happy with most avi files. Then suddenly, it told me it wasn't having them. And, yes, these are the same files from my drive that it used to play.
Odd, huh?
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Is that site down? I clicked it but it says it can't be found.
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Originally posted by drissa:
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Quicktime has played .avi files pretty solidly since I installed a codec. …
.avi is just a container as .mov, which means in an avi/mov you kind find very different kind of file standards and codecs; so, when you read .avi it means "hey, i'm an audio video file!" bujt it doesn't tell you, who some guy in Singapur coded it - mpeg4? Sorensen3? h.243? S.I.H.K.I.O ? (<< something i have no idea of).
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