Bug in QuickTime 7.3.0

A bug in QuickTime 7.3.0 in conjunction with Safari (both 2+ and 3.0.4.) Now only movies outside restricted areas are viewable, after downloading QT 7.0.3 when i try to play movies in a password protected area they dont play, no broken QT logo, just the QT logo appears and nothing else happens.
All QT movies must apparently now be made publicly viewable, that is when using Safari, when testing other browsers movies plays fine with QuickTime 7.3.0 (IE7, Firefox, Netscape)

I tried to play video clips on from lynda.com and the Q appears but only the audio plays.I am new to Mac and have no idea what to do. The same clips play on my windows pc just fine and that is version 7.3.

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Bug report: Quicktime Audio recording with multichannel interfaces

I have problems recording audio in Quicktime using a multichannel audio interface. I tried two firewire interfaces, an Apogee Ensemble and the RME Fireface. Both are supported by core audio and work as expected with any audio sequencer such as Garage band, Logic, Studio One etc. However, both show the same strange behavior in Quicktime 10.2 and as well in iMovie and FCPx:
First, i selected interface channels 1 / 2 in the audio-midi-settings window as the stereo input source. In the quicktime audio recording window, I select the audio interface (fireface or ensemble) as the audio source. I expected that the recorded audio would be stereo. However, regardless of these settings, the recording is always mono. Actually quicktime records only channel 1 and ignores all other channels. This might be a bug in Quicktime with regard to the handling of multichannel interfaces. The same bug occurs in Final Cut Pro X and iMovie, which seem to use the same audio engine as Quicktime. However, Garage band and Logic do not show the problem.
It does also not seem to occur with simple stereo interfaces. I tried a Logitech C920 webcam with a built-in stereo microphone and a Zoom Q2HD recorder used in stereo USB microphone mode. In both cases, the recordings in FCPx are 2 channel stereo as it should be. Thus the problem is specific for multichannel interfaces.
Can anybody reproduce or explain this behaviour?
I am using OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), MacBook Pro 15 Retina 2.3 GHz.
Regards, Werner

It seems that apple has reacted to this bug report without notice. Recently I tried it once more with quicktime and an apogee ensemble interface. Surprisingly, the problem did not occur anymore. I have not tested it with iMovie and FCPX yet.
The sad side of Apples support strategy is that I spent time and money searching for a workaround without knowing that Apple had removed the bug in the meantime.

Export in QuickTime - bug with QuickTime Windows but not with Mac!

Hello everyone and thanks for reading and answering...
Something super weird is happening to me...
I'm exporting a keynote file to Quicktime. The presentation contains movies saved in quicktime format (.mov)
When I play the exported quicktime file on my Mac, everything runs smoothly.
However, when I play the same file on my Windows computer, Quicktime freezes as soon as the presentation comes to the video (it freezes when it's time to play it). WHY?
I was wondering if the problem was coming from the fact that on my Mac i have Quicktime Pro, but on my Windows CPU I just have the regular version. I was thinking that it may be a codec thing.
Does anyone know? (I don't wanna buy QT Pro only to realize that it wasn't the problem, especially that I seldom use my windows computer (it's a laptop, so I only use it when I have a presentation)
Thanks a LOT for your inputs and have a good time...

OK, I may have found the source of the problem: when i tried to play the movie file that I had inserted in Keynote on my PC, Quicktime asked for a codec. In Movie Inspector, I saw that the video was encoded in FLV1...
Any idea where I can get this codec for QT WIndows (I'm searching for it and haven't found it yet)

I have two bugs. Quicktime don't record screen recording and Safari don't open correctly Feed Rss

I can't record a screen recording using Quicktime and Safari can't open feed Rss.
See my video for more details
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPD3VlXz1k

Safari no longer supports RSS. You'll need an RSS app like NetNewsWire
Regards
TD

About the bug of QuickTime for using the header extensions of RTP header.

Dear Sir,
I try to receive the rtsp protocol streaming by using QuickTime Player 7.1.5. If I pad the "X-bits" , Header Extensions of RTP header information, QuickTime would be shutdown. why? thank you.

James -- you need to post your question in the QuickTime forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=943

How to report Quicktime bug? MPEG-2 Export no audio

Subject says it all. I did not find any possibility to log a bug for Quicktime. How to do this?
My problem is:
I have MPEG-2 movies from my Sony digital camera. Quicktime plays them without problem. But when I export them to any format, QT exports them without audio. The audio section in the export dialog is grayed out.
Doing the same in MPEG Streamclip works without problem.

MPEG-1 is an obsolete low-res, poor quality format. MPEG-2 (DVD) is a delivery and not an editing format. You can send in 1000 sugegstions and you will never see MPEG-1/2 exporting audio in Quicktime.
They do read the forums and there are people who test and submit feature requests for programs like Quicktime. But this one won't fly, and it has been around for ages here.
The good news is the free MPEG Streamclip is as fast or faster and does batches of these pesky files so use that and forget asking for this feature.

Quicktime Pro 7.6 Export to DV PAL size Bug?

I'm trying to export videos to Quicktime DV PAL format with a small size (ideally 320*240), but everytime I try, I get a video that has a resolution of 1024*576
I think this might be a bug with Quicktime 7.6, as I can do this export/resize fine on Quicktime 7.2.1 on my old G5
I double checked all the settings, the OS is the same on both machines. I tried on Intel MAC and PowerPC, and the Quicktime version seems to be the only different thing...
Has anyone had the same problem?
Am I right in thinking this is a bug that was not present in earlier versions of Quicktime 7?

Hi,
our source files are most of the time MP4, and sometimes Mov H264.
We need them to be DV Pal so they can be output through a firewire canopus box to work on sound to picture in Logic Pro 8 and Protools.
The canopus box will only output video in conjuction with our DAW if the video file is DV PAL AND an anamorphic dimension.
If you have any idea, please let me know.
But I've tried to apply the conversion on 3 macs (2 Intel Macs running OSX 10.5 and QT 7.6 and one old Powerbook running OSX 10.4.11 and QT 7.6), and in each case the dimension of the output file was wrong (not the one requested).
Then tested the exact same settings on an old PowerMac Dual G5, running OSX 10.5 and QT 7.2, and that worked fine....
Any idea?

BUG: Quicktime -50 error client Windows, server OS X 10.5.*

I have discovered a bug with QuickTime for Windows versions 7.4.*, 7.5.*.
If I try to play a QuickTime on a Leopard OX X server (via Samba share), I receive the error: "Error -50: an unknown error occurred (movie.mov)"
I downgraded to QuickTime for Windows 7.3.1, the QuickTimes play fine. I have tried with both Windows XP and Windows Vista and only 7.3.1 works, no go with 7.4.0, 7.4.1, 7.4.5, and 7.5.5. I have not tried with OS X Server 10.4.* though.
I do NOT have problems with OS X clients either, so this appears to be a Windows QuickTime bug only.
One more note: In testing, I put the same QuickTime on another Windows box, shared the folder in Windows, and the QuickTime would play in newer versions of QuickTime for Windows, so this MIGHT be a OS X Server SMB security problem.

I found the answer in another post! Thanks to mufugger
in the smb.conf file add this into the global section:
mangled names = no
After that, just restart the SMB service.
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Can't capture video using iSight camera in QuickTime 7.4 (92)

OK, I see that there are plenty of "bugs" with Quicktime Version 7.4 (92), but I don't see the problem I am having, posted anywhere. Here goes...
I cannot capture video using my [Firewire] iSight camera on my CoreDuo MacMini. I definitely used to be able to do this. When I go to File>New Movie Recording, I get a back/blank Movie Recording window and that's it. I click on the Red/Record button and nothing happens. The timer doesn't even advance. Just sits there. When I try to stop the recording, I get the following message:
*"Recording failed because no data was received.*
*Make sure that the media input source is turned on and playing."*
I can still capture audio, although had some problems and had to "downgrade" to version 7.3.x and subsequently reinstalled 7.4. Now the audio works but still no video.
A few things:
1. YES, the iSight camera works - I can use it in iMovie, iChat, Photobooth, etc. - for both video and audio.
2. As I mentioned, I tried "downgrading" (using "Pacifist") but still no video.
3. I re-installed Version 7.4 and the audio problems cleared up, but again, still unable to capture video.
3. All software updates installed.
Any ideas???
Thanks!

"As I mentioned, I tried "downgrading" (using "Pacifist") but still no video."
See QuickTimeKirk’s posting in the following thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1357579&tstart=0
Try the following:
Trash com.apple.LaunchServices.plist
It's located in your account:
HD/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist
Delete the file, restart (a new .plist will be created) and quicktime hopefully will work again w/o doing an Archive & Install.
+If you want to do an A&I:+
Do an archive and install of your OS from the OS disc. Stop at the QT upgrade you need.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301270 Scroll down to "Archive and Install”
IMPORTANT: Maker sure you select "preserve user preferences and data" when you performed the A&I?
Good luck!

Quicktime causes buffer overrun and does not work

I just tried to update to Quicktime 7 (7.0.4). It installs fine.
When I visit the movie trailers page on Apple.com
I try to play a clip and I get an error message that says buffer overun (trying to play keynote address in wuicktime application)
or an error message that says plugin performed an illegal operation and then it crashes my firefox browser.
It seems there are a lot of bugs with quicktime 7, I have tried standalone downloads of 7.0.3 and 7.0.2, they don't work either.
I have tried installing in safe mode and the installler will not work. what next?
do I actually have to reinstall windows to get it to work or do i have to go through the hassle of manually attempting to clear all of the clutter off of the hard drive and tinker with registry settings and try again?
Is there an explanation from APPLE to rectify these problems or will I just have to give up using your product?
Is there going to be a fix or is apple not supporting quicktime for windows anymore?
Too bad version 6 was messed with. It worked perfectly.

I'm having the exact same problem, since the upgrade this week.
iTunes does an immediate shutdown when it’s clicked. No errors are reported.
I automatically thought of Quicktime and when I clicked on it, I get a immediate shutdown as-well, but in Quicktime’s case I get an error window that states “Buffer Overflow error”.
I’ve tried to uninstall Quicktime from the Add/Remove programs in the Control panel. It flashes, does not report any errors and appears to be removing the program (Quicktime). But, when all is finished Quicktime remains in the Add/Remove programs list and it has not been removed.
Just to see what would happen, I installed Quicktime all by itself, and then tried to removed it VIA Control Panel. Same experiences (Quicktime remains in the Add/Remove programs list and it has not been removed).
I’ve removed iTunes a couple of times and tried to re-install (using defaults). Same problem exists (i.e. ‘Buffer Overflow error’).
I reinstall DirectX. Same problem exists (i.e. ‘Buffer Overflow error’).
Can Quicktime be removed manually? (i.e. delete files\directories, and Registry edits)?
Or is this just a nightmare to perform?
Does anyone have any other thoughts I can try?
AMD 3300+ Windows XP 512mb memory, CD writer, SATA and IDE HD's, On board Mobo video (S3).

List of bugs I've found - 10.5.1

Hi,
If I find bugs, do I just post them here? You guys REALLY need a bug tracker. I mean, really... I've been reading a lot of complaints online all over the web about Leopard bugs, and it's really starting to worry me, especially when I see them on Mac forums.
First, I'm going to list bugs I've found:
BUG #1: AIRPORT EXTREME BASE STATION:
This one is really getting on my nerves. I have an Airport Extreme Base Station and I have an external drive plugged in. When I click on my base station in finder, I see "Connected As: Guest". When I click on "Connect As" it gives me "Connecting..." then "Connection failed". It seems that it's not even giving me the choice of typing in a user. To resolve the issue I have to reset my base station, but when I try to connect with another computer same thing happens. I need to reliably get to my network drive, and this is getting ridiculous.
BUG #2: MAIL TO DO LIST:
Not entirely sure about this one, but to do list items are not showing up in iCalendar. Also, I don't seem to be able to set the alert option. I see it in the list, but I can't do anything with it.
This might have been a fluke, or fixed in 10.5.1, but at one point when I changed "Date Due" to something like "Today" on accident, I was unable to change it back to "No Date"
BUG #3: KEYCHAIN MANAGER
I keep getting unexpected errors when editing, deleting, and even browsing...
BUG #4: SPACES
I had some problems with spaces before the update, which I described in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1239958&tstart=0
Doesn't seem to be a problem now, although I remember it working some point before the update as well... I just thought I'd mention it again just incase it's one of those bugs that crops up every once in a while. Was bugging me all day yesterday.
BUG #5: DOCK
This happened today... When I clicked on the application in my dock, whether it was open or not, it would reveal the application in finder. I had to "killall Dock" in finder to reload the dock, and then it worked normally again.
BUG #6: BOOT
This may not be a bug, but I consider it to be. There is absolutely no boot progress after the grey apple screen. This is important. Please add it back. If something happens during the boot process that causes it to halt, it would be useful to know about where it got stuck, wouldn't it?
BUG #7: Quicktime & Minimize
I haven't tried this yet, but I saw it mentioned on one of the mac forums. I was going to test it, but I can't get into my network drive with all my videos on it, due to one of the most annoying bugs mentioned above.
Basically what was said is when you minimize a QuickTime window with a video playing, it no longer plays in the dock or stops playing (something to that effect). It's one of the things Steve brought out in one of his keynotes. If this was a "feature" that was removed, why in the heck would you remove something like that?
Now I'm going to make some suggestions:
SUGGESTION #1: LIGHTER STACKS
The "stack" shows every single icon on the dock stacked on top of each other. The way stacks works in itself is very productive for me. But having every single Icon graphically on the dock can be a bit slow. I actually notice it stacking up during boot, which is a bit odd. If you must show every single icon, surely you can cache all the icons stacked on top of each other as a single graphic? That way it uses less memory, and boots up a bit quicker. Or even show just one icon of the users choice. My biggest concern is during boot
SUGGESTION #2: SPACES, FULL SCREEN GAMES
Be able to use a space for a full screen game without disrupting it. Would be nice if you could have your game on one space, and switch to another to look something up online.
SUGGESTION #3: SPACES, MORE HOT KEYS
There's a hot key for activating the spaces selector. How about being able to switch to a certain space via hot key? Like Command-S-> or Command-S<- or Command-S/\ (user definable). That way, knowing the space I want to go to, I can get to it quickly. I'd like to be able to jump to a space without using my mouse.
Last thing I want to say... I've read a lot of complaints about features being removed from Tiger... Please look into what users are saying is missing and add them back.
That's all the comments I have for now... It's a bit late. Maybe I'll have more later on.

This may not be a bug, but I consider it to be. There is absolutely no boot progress after the grey apple screen. This is important. Please add it back. If something happens during the boot process that causes it to halt, it would be useful to know about where it got stuck, wouldn't it?
I've never seen the boot progress bar in Leopard, but if you want a more verbose boot sequence just hold down Command+V while your computer starts up.
Basically what was said is when you minimize a QuickTime window with a video playing, it no longer plays in the dock or stops playing (something to that effect). It's one of the things Steve brought out in one of his keynotes. If this was a "feature" that was removed, why in the heck would you remove something like that?
I can confirm that videos (at least for me) no longer play while in the Dock.
The "stack" shows every single icon on the dock stacked on top of each other. The way stacks works in itself is very productive for me. But having every single Icon graphically on the dock can be a bit slow. I actually notice it stacking up during boot, which is a bit odd. If you must show every single icon, surely you can cache all the icons stacked on top of each other as a single graphic? That way it uses less memory, and boots up a bit quicker. Or even show just one icon of the users choice. My biggest concern is during boot
I've never really had a problem with that - they update very quickly for me.
There's a hot key for activating the spaces selector. How about being able to switch to a certain space via hot key? Like Command-S-> or Command-S<- or Command-S/\ (user definable). That way, knowing the space I want to go to, I can get to it quickly. I'd like to be able to jump to a space without using my mouse.
Press Ctrl+<number> to switch to a certain space. (ie: Ctrl+5 switches to space 5)
Also Ctrl+<arrow> will switch to an adjacent space.
This is all customizable in the Spaces preference pane.

Quicktime plays video in slow motion

Quicktime plays my video from a Sony NEX-3 camera [H.264 MP4 files] in slow motion. The images plays at a reduced speed, while the sound plays at full speed. One consequence is that image and sound is completely out of sync. The video plays fine in iMovie and MPEG stream clip.
I tried in two Macs: a Macbook Air (10.6.6) and a Macbook (10.6.5) and on both the video is slow motion, but on the Macbook it is extreme slow motion, while on the Macbook Air it is slight slow motion [mainly noticeable through lack of sync between image and sound].
Video from iPhone 4 plays without problems in Quicktime.
Since iMovie plays the Sony video fine, I would assume it is not a Sony video problem, but a bug in Quicktime. How do I get Apple to fix that bug?

How do I get Apple to fix that bug?
You can provide Apple feedback at: http://www.apple.com/feedback/.

"Preserve Aspect Ratio" Bug w/ DV Export

Hi,
I searched around and found no mention of this behavior, so figured I'd post what I discovered. There is a subtle bug in QuickTime when you convert to DV and check "Preserve Aspect Ratio" in the Size options. It's intimately connected with how QuickTime scales DV for display on screen.
DV resolution is 720x480, but with rectangular pixels. So some scaling is done to display the image using the computer screen's square pixels. The height to width ratio of a DV pixel is 1.1, so the correct resolution (i.e. no distortion of the image) to use on screen is about 654x480. But wait! QuickTime plays back DV at 640x480, and it's not distorted. What gives?
QuickTime knows the correct scaling factor and is actually displaying the image at 654x480, but it's chopping 7 pixels off the left and right sides to fit it in a 640x480 window. (The effect is even more pronounced with anamorphic 16x9 DV - 11-12 pixels get lopped off either side.) It's only a display issue - the pixels are still there, they're just not being drawn. It's a subtle effect you never really notice, and you get distortion-free playback.
The problem occurs when you need to export some video to DV that's not a standard aspect ratio (like the 2:1 clips I was converting). When you check the "Preserve Aspect Ratio" box, QuickTime scales your video to the 640x480 display area, keeping the original aspect ratio like it's supposed to. BUT it then proceeds to take the full 654x480 frame and encode it to DV. You end up with a very thin black border on the left and right, and ironically the aspect ratio you wanted to preserve is ever so slightly squished!
You never see the problem in QuickTime Player because of the display scaling trick, so all looks well. But bring the converted DV into iDVD or Final Cut and you can see the black border. (Again, it's more pronounced with anamorphic widescreen.) "Preserve Aspect Ratio" thus only exactly preserves the aspect if the only thing you're going to use to view the video is QuickTime. It is subtle, but if you're compositing the converted video with DV from another source it can be bothersome.
Hope this proves helpful,
-Robb
Dual-Core 2 GHz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) QuickTime Pro 7.1.5

I've seen the border in Final Cut. This is good to know - thanks.

Quicktime will not work in Windows

For the past few months, I've experienced trouble with Quicktime. I would try to view a video on Apples website, and it would fizz out like a bad tv broadcast, then lockup saying there was an error, report, blah blah. I figured it was Apples website. Well today I tried to install a Total Training video, and when it searched for Quicktime, I got the same error, the program install locked up, and asked me to report the error, etc. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, no luck. Please help!

Lets do a few things.
1. Update QuickTime. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
2. Open up QuickTime player.
3. Click on Edit> QuickTime Preferences>Advanced.
4. In the center of this section there is a "Video" section select Safe Mode.
5. Click on Ok and go ahead and close out of QuickTime.
I have also noted that there are SEVERAL bugs with QuickTime and Nvidia Chips.
A few things I suggest you do is to update all of your drivers, and install any pending Windows Updates.
Please post if this worked for you.
JMG- Not associated with Apple.

Quicktime Will Not Close Open Windows

After I record a video Quicktime refuses to close any windows from those recordings. When the red X is clicked quicktime will lag out for a few seconds at the end of which the window has not been closed. The only way to get the window to close is to quit Quicktime with the "Close windows when quitting an application" preference enabled in the System Preferences > General. If this preference is not enabled, Quicktime will refuse to quit and the program must be Force Quit.
I've gone and done the usual troubleshooting steps like rebooting, deleting preferences, etc... This does not solve this issue leading me to believe it's either a poorly thought out "feature" or a bug. Unless there is some new paradigm of closing windows that I am not familiar with of closing window, thanks to Apple;s new paradigm of changing tried and true methodologies for new "simpler", "let us do that for you" ones, this is extremely annoying for someone who want to itterate through multiple video takes quickly without unnecessarily tieing up system resources. If I make a video that I don't want I want to just trash it and be done with it.
Anyway, does anyone know if there is any way to fix this so that I don't have dozens of videos active?

Lets do a few things.
1. Update QuickTime. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
2. Open up QuickTime player.
3. Click on Edit> QuickTime Preferences>Advanced.
4. In the center of this section there is a "Video" section select Safe Mode.
5. Click on Ok and go ahead and close out of QuickTime.
I have also noted that there are SEVERAL bugs with QuickTime and Nvidia Chips.
A few things I suggest you do is to update all of your drivers, and install any pending Windows Updates.
Please post if this worked for you.
JMG- Not associated with Apple.

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