QuickTime takes forever to open larger movie files and files over network

Quicktime 7.2 used to open files immediately, but now it stops responding for a couple minutes or more before finally opening movie files.
Any one else having this problem?

Worked for me as well. I had Perian already, but after downloading and installing the new version, Quicktime works perfectly now.
Many thanks!

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Quicktime Takes forever to open

I can open a video instantly with quick look, but when I open it using quicktime it takes 15 seconds to open.

The problem stopped.

I'm running snow leopard. The try to open any .mov file in Quicktime, and I get an error message that says, "The document xyz.mov could not be opened. The movie is not in a format that Quicktime player understands. I'm a recent upgrade to Snow Leopard.

I'm running snow leopard. The try to open any .mov file in Quicktime, and I get an error message that says, "The document xyz.mov could not be opened. The movie is not in a format that Quicktime player understands. I'm a recent upgrade to Snow Leopard.
Help!
Thanks, Mark

Unfortunately, the error message gives no details about what codec might be missing or what it needs.
If the file can't be opened in QT, it only means you cannot use the QT "Inspector" window to check what compression formats were used to create the file. It does not mean you can't use the Finder "Information" window to check on the compression formats or use a third party media information window (e.g., like VLC which will open many compression formats not supported natively by QT) to determine what kind of data is included in the MOV wrapper. If the file cannot be opened in any app, it is usually a good sign that the file itself is corrupted.
It's a stupid error message. Apple should do better than that.
Error trapping is quite extensive but there are still many areas which require human oversight. The message is telling you that either the container has a problem (e.g., not properly terminated, non-standard, or corrupted) or that one or more of the compression formats used is not supported by your current codec component configuration or that the data was encoded using non-standard settings or preferences not supported by QT or that the fourCC code does not match the data contained in the file or that there are timecode inconsistencies, etc., etc., etc. In short there are a near infinite number of possible problems for which it would be very difficult/nearly impossible to program error trapping depending on your sourcing of content and how you process it before it reaches the player app. Think of it like trying to play a BD disc in an DVD player.
I'll call Apple support when I get a chance.
Chances are good that they will end up sending you back here. In any case, it is often a good idea to post a sample file for examination by other QT users. At the very least, they should be able to tell you if the sample file will play on other systems which would indicate whether or not the file itself is bad and under the best of circumstances whould allow them to examing the file in detail for various common problems.

I cannot open my .mov file in Quicktime ... It says error mid "conversion"

I have a 1.34 GB .MOV File and when I try to open it in Quicktime is says "converting" than an error message pops up and says :
QuickTime Player can't open "FANTASY_TEST_DRIVE_REV_GENERIC.mov".
To see if additional software is available that will enable QuickTime Player to open the movie, click Tell Me More.
I have tried on both my imacs and neither of them will open. It is really frusturating. Is there another program I should download?

I have a 1.34 GB .MOV File and when I try to open it in Quicktime is says "converting" than an error message pops up and says :
QuickTime Player can't open "FANTASY_TEST_DRIVE_REV_GENERIC.mov".
To see if additional software is available that will enable QuickTime Player to open the movie, click Tell Me More.
I have tried on both my imacs and neither of them will open. It is really frusturating. Is there another program I should download?

Since loading fcp 10.0.6 when I share a movie it won't open in quicktime even though it is a .mov file. Any help??

Since loading fcp 10.0.6 when I share the movie I can't open it in quicktime even though it is a .mov file. Any help??

Can you give us the details of your project, codec etc.
Can you check the drive you are exporting the master file to and the file itself for permissions and specifications.
Have you tried opening the file with something like VLC
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
Tony

Problems opening a mov file on quicktime

Hey guys, i just purchased a mac and im having some problems opening a MOV. file on quicktime. FOr some reason im just getting sound and no video. Can anyone please help me out? Is there some extensions i have to download? Please let me know thanks.

A MOV. file can be anything.
I would suggest you download and install Perian from http://perian.org/
You should read this support page http://perian.org/#support in case you need to delete older codecs.

Can I download large movie files to iphoto?

Hi all you great experts out there . I am having trouble downloading 12GB of video which I took on my Canon EOS7D. I am using an IOGEAR card reader connected to my Mac OS X (version 10.6.8) computer with a 2GHz Intel Core Duo processor, running Snow Leopard. I am currently using iphoto and imovie '09. The card seems to register with my computer as the icon appears on my desktop and also in iphoto under "Devices". Iphoto is open and I currently see "Loading photos" on my screen with the twirling sun dial.
Does it just take a long time to download 1+ hours of video?
OR
Is there another step that I need to add?
OR
Perhaps do I need to purchase the '11 version of iphoto/imovie?
I eventually want to edit the video in iMovie. I read in a couple of the threads that I may need to use the apple application "image capture" to copy the movie to desktop and then import. I have not tried that yet, I am hoping the "sun dial" will stop spinning soon or that you all will have a magical response for me! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much from this Techie wanna be

iPhoto is known to choke on movie files over a certain size. To get the larger videos either use Image Capture or a card reader to upload the file to the Desktop first and then into iPhoto.
OT

ITunes takes forever to open!!

When I open iTunes in my Dock, it takes at least five minutes to open. I timed it tonight. This is a fairly recent problem, maybe for the last month or so. I'm wondering if anyone knows if this could be because I have a LOT of iPhone Applications in iTunes now?
I'm also having problems with other apps on my Mac, such as iPhoto running very slow, but only iTunes takes forever to open. iPhoto opens quickly, freezes a lot while using it, and takes several minutes to close, probably due to having over 20,000 photos in it.
So I'm thinking the iTunes problem probably isn't related to the iPhoto problems.
Also, I just did an "Archive and Install" with the Leopard OS at the advice of an Apple store Genius, but it didn't fix or change anything. In fact, the Install took six hours, which I believe is longer than normal.
Does anyone know if a large amount of App store apps in iTunes can affect how long it takes to open?
Or should I be asking this question at the iPhone forum?
Thanks in advance, Deb

Hello back, and thank you both for responding. I had no idea there was two separate iTunes forums. I guess I'll go post to the right one.
I'm the only Mac user in a house of PC users, so my three guys are no help to me. Well, one of them has a Macbook, but he uses his desktop PC the most. Anyway...
I have 50 Gigs left on my hard drive and that's only because I had to do two "Archive and Installs" on my iMac last week. That left me with over 20 gigs in two "Previous System Folders". I'm going to delete them eventually to get that space back, but my problems were happening before when I had almost 75 gigs, and are still happening now. Nothing has changed.
My iTunes has maybe 10 gigs of stuff total, with most of it music, then maybe iPhone applications (probably 2 or 3 gigs), but only one short 45 minute video, and a couple of podcasts. Nothing else. I'm a middle aged mom, so I'm not much into iTunes except for my iPhone stuff.
So, I'm confused by iTunes reluctance to open, but will go post on the Mac iTunes forum.
Thanks for taking the time to respond to me!
Greatly appreciated... Deb

How do I copy a large MOV file from iMac to iPad?

How do I copy a large MOV file from iMac to iPad? Thank you in advance for the help. I am connected via a USB but finder is not showing my iPad.

Open iTunes, drag the MOV file to your library in iTunes, then sync to the iPad.

Opening a .mov file on a Mac across a Windows network causes hang

QuickTime player hangs when I try to open a .mov file on a networked Mac OSX machine from my Windows XP machine. This happens 80-90% of the time; that is, not every time, but most of the time.
I've tried this from 2-3 different machines, and get the same result.
Interesting thing is that, if I'm viewing the directory that the .mov file comes from in Windows Explorer, Windows Explorer also hangs - so it looks like something bad in going on in the Windows networking layer.
File opens fine when I open it locally or on another Windows machine on the network.
We're actually accessing the QT SDK from an app we're developing. We first noticed this behavior in our app, and decided to see if we could repro the problem in QT player. Sure enough, we could.
Is there somewhere else I can log this message so that it will come to the attention of the SDK group? This a major problem for our app that I need to resolve one way or another.

A MOV. file can be anything.
I would suggest you download and install Perian from http://perian.org/
You should read this support page http://perian.org/#support in case you need to delete older codecs.

Opening multiple movie files to play sequentially.

Currently, if I highlight several movie (e.g. .avi) files in a Finder window and then double-click on one of them, each of the files is opened in a separate QuickTime window and if I have "automatically play movies when opened" QuickTime preference set, then they all start playing simultaneously!
How do I change it so that opening multiple movie files results in them being played sequentially in a single window?
P.S. I have "Open movies in new players" preference is disabled.
P.P.S. For image files it all works correctly - they are opened in Preview and I get an option of starting a slideshow...

Hi,
I'm not on a Mac at the moment to test, but I could have sworn you used to be able to open one movie, pause it and then drag and drop subsequent movies onto that window to append them to the end.
Give it a try. Sorry if I've been imagining things though

Opening large photo files produces black screen

When opening a small (less than a meg) photo, it works find. I'm able to move to the next file. If I open a large file (8-10 megs) it sometimes works fine however if I use the arrow to move to the next file in the folder I get a black screen. Also if I have a folder of many large photo files I can see all the thumbnail photos at a small size. If I try to increase the view size to large some will be black, however if I click on the file many times it opens fine, sometimes not. It was working fine, just recently started to act up. Using adobe photoshop I can open each file so I know they are there and not corrupt files.

Hello @JohnBruin,
Welcome to the HP Forums, I hope you enjoy your experience! To help you get the most out of the HP Forums I would like to direct your attention to the HP Forums Guide First Time Here? Learn How to Post and More.
I have read your post on how opening large photo files produces a black screen on your desktop computer. I would be happy to assist you in this matter!
If you boot your system into Safe Mode, are you able to open large photographs? Is this a recent or a reoccurring issue?
In the meantime, I recommend following the steps in this document on Computer Locks Up or Freezes (Windows 8). This should help prevent your system from defaulting to a black screen.
I would also encourage you to post your product number for your computer. Below is a is an HP Support document that will demonstrate how to find your computer's product number.
How Do I Find My Model Number or Product Number?
Please re-post with the results of your troubleshooting, as well as the requested information above. I look forward to your reply!
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QuickTime new install hangs, freezes executing MOV files?

Once worked?
A iTunes user I have removed & reinstalled ITunes back having same issue never fixed awhile (I did not know it was I QuickTime thing)
I tried to run any video in iTunes or podcast and it freezed.. I lost mouse keybd everything Reboot!
That was iTunes on another ticket suggested that I remove & reinstalled... same problem, never did solve it?
Today I tried QT, running a MOV from fresh boot, to execute a MOV file, one that worked and I created a year ago..
I went repair soft and apps in control panel, then finally remove & reloaded it, Quicktime still freezes when executing a MOV file.

1] Try it with another user account (make one if you need to in Apple menu > System Preferences > Accounts)
2] If its only happening in your account:
Inside your hard drive, in the Users folder should be your user home folder (with your account name.) Within that folder is a folder called Library... open that and look for a QuickTime folder within, pull that QuickTime folder out to the Desktop. Do the same for Internet Plug-ins and throw away the ~/Library/Caches/QuickTime folder too. Then, open Preferences and pull out com.apple.quicktime... (all of them) and the QuickTime Preferences file.
Then log out (Apple menu) and back in (or restart) and try again.
3] If its happening for all users then try:
Pull the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.quicktime.plist to the desktop (Your QuickTime Pro registration is in that file so don't throw it away, just move it out, restart and try again.)
4] If there are still problems, try repairing your disk either with the OS X install disc (run Disk Utility from the menu bar) or by rebooting in Singel-User-Mode and running fsck. Then repair permissions with Disk Utility.
Let us know if you still have trouble.

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Thanks for getting back to me Dave!
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QuickTime takes forever to open larger movie files and files over network

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