Cannot Play MP4 Files on Front Row and Quicktime

Hi guys,
I cannot play any MP4 files on QT or FR. They play fine on VLC which is strange as I never had a problem before. I have the latest version of QT and didnt repair permissions on upgrade!

Panther: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime731forpanther.html
Tiger: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime731fortiger.html
Leopard: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime731forleopard.html
It was on the thread I posted below

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Hi, is there anyway I can play avi files in front row without having to convert them to .mov? I could not find any avi plugins for quicktime.

,avi is a container, like .mov, which can contain any number of different codecs.
I would suggest that you download Perian
http://perian.org/
which converts most codecs to something Quicktime can play.
Whether you can then play them in Front Row is another matter - to be honest I am not sure.

No sound from playing avi files in front row.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can play my avi files from front row when I put them into the movies folder...however, the music just won't play!!!~~~~~~
is anyone else having this problem?
anyone with a solution?
please please help!!!!

I'm assuming these are Divx movies? Have you installed the latest AC3 codec, this worked for me:
You need a file called "AC3 Codec.component"
Do a search and you can find it to download, and try that. This got my audio working in Front Row on my MacBook Pro
You can download it here:
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Audio/AC3-Codec.shtml

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I've imported some .mp4 files from my MACBOOK Pro via iTunes(all are running with latest version), can play just first time after fresh imported, cannot play anymore when press "Home" button and re-open the built-in movie apps again, just remain black screen and nothing. any idea? Thanks
ps: The movie player is using iPad 2 built-in movie apps.

Panther: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime731forpanther.html
Tiger: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime731fortiger.html
Leopard: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime731forleopard.html
It was on the thread I posted below

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I just got a new Macbook Pro (With lepoard) and cannot get my movie to play in Front Row. I could do it no problem in Tiger. I keep getting the message "The selected video could not be played--the format was not recognized."
The picture of the video shows up next to it, but it does not play and gives the above message.
Please help me out, as this is extremely frustrating. Thanks.

I had the same problem (only with the trailers and top (Movies and TV), it was resolved (unfortunately I don't remember how, may be with an upgrade) and now I have it again. These are files created by apple therefore there is no reason why a 3rd party codec would be needed to play them.

Playing .avi files in Front Row has stopped

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I've had my iMac for about 3.5yrs and Front Row has always read .mp4, .m4v and .avi files with no problems (providing i navigate to /Movies/Movies Folder, not /TV Shows because that only reads .mp4 files the same as iTunes & Apple TV), up until a couple of days ago. When i navigate to an .avi file now it plays the file, has the correct time length indicated but all have no sound and black screens.
Is anyone aware of any updates that could've stopped this? how it was casued or know how to get around it?
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TG

What version of OS X are you running? Front Row was withdrawn with the advent of Lion.

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I just created an image of a few personal home DVD's using the Disk Utility and created as a CD/DVD Master images having extension .cdr . They load fine and I am able to play them via DVD Player, but I wish to see it in Front Row.
I found from the internet that one can use Toast to load such images but I do not have Toast and cannot shell out USD 70/80 for it.
I cannot use Disk Assist as well since this will mean I will have to copy folder from disk to another folder which will be a pain. I certainly will not want to have 2 copies. I don't wish to delete the .CDR .
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Try the Front Row forum at http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1164

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I recently updated my OS to 10.6.3 from 10.5.x. The install stuffed up a few times and I ended up doing a wipe of the install disc and changing out the RAM to get it to finally work. Since then, I haven't been able to play some video formats in both Quicktime/Front Row or VLC (first time I have ever had trouble playing a video in VLC). I have DivX, Flip4Mac and Perian all installed (like I did before the update) and most files play, except for some .m4v files. It's weird because some of the .m4v files do play, and some don't. All the files played before the 10.6 update.
When I try to open the files in Quicktime, it gives me the message 'the document .... could not be opened. The movie is not in a format that Quicktime understands'. It says I may need to install additional software, but thats all installed.
In VLC it gave me a message which I can't seem to get it to give again, something about the files being unplayable and it can not be fixed.
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I found that I had that problem as well. I've found most of the time the files can be played in Quicktime 7, however Quicktime X (included with 10.6 seems to have problems with a few versions of M4V, also VLC has the same problem, but Quicktime 7 seems to have no issue. I know it must be a compression scheme that is no longer supported, but I don't know how to find out what it is and how to get Quicktime X to identify the Codec.

Cannot open TIFF files since installing iTunes and QuickTime Player.

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I hope Quicktime does not, later, try to take over again.
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iTunes only supports MP4s encoded using the Main Profile, but many MP4s that you can download from the web are encoded using High Profile. These need to be converted.
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You probably have not seen anyone reporting the exact same problem as you. All three crash reports have the same crash signature and as currently ranked 67 it is not the commonest of reasons for a crash.
I hope you enter your email contact information when reporting crashes. I note you see this crash when using videos, others may possibly see this crash in other circumstances.
You have already tried the obvious, attempts at a fix so it is now down to wait and see, maybe developers working on the bug will report something or fix it.
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Message was edited by: Skatingskis
I found something close. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5924938&#5924938
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