Bunch of Quicktime questions

I use Quicktime to view the site Hanson.net as I am a huge fan and member of their club.I am disappointed however that all my issues with quicktime now prevent me from viewing the site fully.Here are my issues:
When I try to update an older version of Quicktime an error pop up window comes up saying they cannot locate a file needed to delete the old version which would then allow me to update the new version. Second when I am finally able to use quicktime all my other graphic links appear broken and I cannot fully initialize sites such as youtube.I was wondering if someone can give me a concise step by step direction on how to correct these problems so I can get the full usage out of Quicktime without all these bugs.
Sincerly Missy

QuickTime formats are not used at YouTube.
They use Flash Media and you need another player (Adobe.com).

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I've installed and re-installed quicktime 7.0.3 (the latest for OSX) a few times now and am able to view a single file (ie a movie trailer) once only, and then all subsequent attempts to view media with Quicktime result in the dreaded question mark. The files I am attempting to view are from Apple movie trailers so I can't imagine they're corrupted. (Or are they?)
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Restart your browser for this change to take effect and try movie trailer again.

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Same thing happened to me. Finally figured it out. Install the latest Flash 9.
Now do this...
1. Go into System Preferences and choose Quicktime.
2. Click on Advanced tab.
3. Uncheck Enable Flash box
4. Then, click on MIME Settings
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< putting hands of ears... aahh! good! >
same here: I'm not a 100%, what iwaddah tries to accomplish, I stumble over "QTpro" and "image sequence"...
QTpro allows the conversion of a socalled image sequence into a dv; e.g. you do cellpaintings for a toon, you open that sequence - voila! => video...
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What to do about QuickTime question marks in Safari 2.0.4?

Hi everyone,
This may sound like a stupid question but it's beginning to bug me:
When I use Safari to browse the internet, I see question marks in lots of areas where there is supposed to be animated clips or images. The question marks are over the QuickTime symbol.
I'm using Safari 2.0.4
I'm using QT 7.1.3 and did not update because 7.1.5 had a bug in it that was interfearing with ffmpegX that I use to convert video and music containers.
- Is there any firmware that could get rid of the anoying Questions marks and let me see what I'm missing on webpages?
- Or do I need to update Safari?
FireFox on the other hand does not give me that problem.
Input is always appreciated.
Rio.

1) what does "com.apple.Safari.plist" do?
2) What is it for?
3) Why was it created?
a .plist file stores all of the user preferences for the associated application as well as information like what app to use for video, audio, viewing PDF files, etc. These files can easily become corrupted over time. Trashing them forces the application to create a fresh file.
4) What IS a Cache file?
5) What is IN a cache file?
6) Why does a computer NEED cache files?
7) What will happen when I find the mentioned cache files and delete them?
Cache files store information. The cache file for your web browser would store previously visited pages, images, downloaded files etc. This allows the application to reload pages (or files) faster since the data is stored locally and does not have to be retrived from a remote server. Again these files can become quite large and are prone to corruption. I have found it prudent to empty Safari's cache (from the Safari menu, select "Empty Cache") every couple of days.
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A week ago I downloaded PithHelmet, The basic ad blocker for Safari.
Anyway now the problem in safari I have, is that when ever i want to open a webpage with includes animations,videos or other, It shows me a Weird Quicktime logo with a question mark over it , although PithHelmet is uninstalled .
So here is a preview of one of the webpages this occurs:
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/908/picture1yy9.png
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/7084/picture2tz6.png
Im assuming you all know how Youtube looks like, so it doesnt seem like my broswer is just Lagging
Also, when i wanter to upload the pictures in ImageShack, i got the same sign :
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/6282/picture3ue0.png
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Did you also install a Quicktime update recently? One of the recent ones caused this to happen for some people.
Also check if it happens in a different user account. If it doesn't, it's probably something simpler to fix.

SWF files get the faded Quicktime Question Mark !!

I began to see that any swf art won webpages was not playing in Safari - It just shows a faded Quicktime Q with a question mark over it.
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Open the HD/Library/QuickTime folder and drag the QuickTime Plugin.webplugin to your desktop (so you can replace it).
Restart your browser for this change to take effect and try movie trailer again.

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Hi everyone,
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Hello to everyone! Sorry if I seem to be straying off topic. There are several related threads in this forum, the Safari 3 beta forum and also the Quicktime forum.
I have this problem as well - on my PowerBook G4, but not on my PowerMac G5... Specifically, in Safari on the Apple Special Event August 2007 page where we look for Steve to intro the new iMac, I see no button to push to display the stream. Just after the last word in the paragraph that the Play button should be under, there is a small active area that will bring up the stream on its web page (an invisible button), but when that happens, there is only the audio content. I have not tried the movie trailers, but these problems sound identical. So, this looks like several related symptoms - may be several problems or only one.
Everything works normally in FireFox.
Moving the HD/Library/Internet Plug-ins/QuickTime Plugin.webplugin file to the desktop fixes this problem in Safari, but induces several other problems.
I have MacOSX 10.4.10 up to date, Quicktime 7.2.0, Safari 2.0.4 (419.3). DIVX web player 1.3.1 (p/o 6.6 package), Flash 9.0.47, etc... I have upgraded from many, many versions of Mac-OSX to the present.
I recently installed i-Life '08 on both computers.
I repaired permissions and sucecssfully verified my disk - no impact regarding this problem.
I reinstalled Quicktime - no resolution.
I am a knowledgable user - not expert, but quite knowledgable - I suspect that there is an internet plug-in conflict. Someone elsewhere in the discussion forum (Quicktime area, I think) also ventured that guess.
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Don't know why the order is like it is - I displayed my directory, selected all and copied and pasted to get this list - sorting by date or name didn't alter the order of this list (hmmm - something to ponder on a dull day!).
I will post the plug-in list for my desktop that works correctly on Tuesday when I am back at the office.
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Brian

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(i Know this is FCE board, but did not find a QT PRO board)
I'm in QT Pro and I have a mpg file that came from a digital photo camera. (Sony W1 - 5 Megapixel) I have a file that is 37 sec,
12.8MB,
size is 640X480,
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When I play the original file mpeg1, I hear the sound. Maybe it's the muxed that does it!! Anyone can help???
I thought that the original being a mpeg1, was not proper, so I wanted to export it into a mpeg4 ! Or is there a better format to use?
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Ok....
Problem solved.
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